EPT Polish Open Main Event Day 2 | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw

11-17-2008 15:45 UTC+2

No Mini-Stack for Minieri

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A good start for the miniature Italian, as Dario Minieri pushes Mika Puro off a sizable pot. Puro bet out 3,000 on the turn of a {7-Diamonds}

board, and then flat-called a raise to 7,050 from Minieri. Come the {3-Clubs}

river, though, Puro checked, and then quietly folded when Minieri bet 13,000 -- easily enough to cover Puro.

With that, Minieri has broken the 50,000 mark and is firmly up there with the chip leaders.

Tags: Dario Minieri Mika Puro

11-17-2008 15:39 UTC+2

Lodden Bisected

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An early disaster for Johnny Lodden, as he doubles up tablemate and fellow Norwegian Thomas Floan. Floan was holding pocket jacks on a {3-?}

board by the end of the hand; whatever Lodden was holding, it wasn't good enough to save him and he was forced to cough up around 20,000 chips to Floan, neatly bisecting his own stack.

To the dulcet sound of Mark Teltscher complaining about how long it was taking to count the chips, Lodden was down to 20,000.

Tags: Johnny Lodden Thomas Floan

11-17-2008 15:33 UTC+2

Play Is Underway

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And they're off!

To a thoroughly inappropriate soundtrack of "We Built This City On Rock & Roll" on the casino stereo, cards are in the air and the serious business of making it to the money has begun.

Some interesting table shares to watch today include:

Table ElkY/Arnaud Mattern/Sebastian Ruthenberg

Table Johannes Strassmann/Dario Minieri/Gino Alacqua

Table Isabelle Mercier/Michael Keiner/Jonas Molander

Fireworks from those expected any minute now...

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

11-17-2008 14:45 UTC+2

Welcome Back to Warsaw

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Our 109 remaining players will reconvene in about half an hour's time here at the Casino Poland Warsawza, deep in the bowels of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. There's a good chance we'll reach the money today, 24 of those 109 going home with at least €7,038 for their efforts. Loads of top pros remain in the field, led by Roland de Wolfe, Antony Lellouche and Ludovic Lacay.

With a good amount of short stacks in the field there should be significant bloodletting in the early levels. Join us for all the action!

11-17-2008 08:41 UTC+2

Official List of Day 2 Players and Chip Counts

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Below are the official Day 2 starting chip counts for our 109 survivors from Day 1A and 1B, courtesy of PokerStars:

Roland De Wolfe 67,150
Antony Lellouche 57,600
Alain Roy 50,950
Ludovic Lacay 49,600
Christoffer Egmo 46,175
Dario Minieri 43,975
Andreas Krause 43,825
Sebastian Ruthenberg 41,950
Johnny Lodden 41,450
Bertrand Grospellier 41,425
Marco Fantini 41,000
Sergey Shcherbatskiy 40,950
Serguei Pomerantsev 39,175
Brian Jensen 39,050
Victor Lemos 37,675
Mark Teltscher 37,100
Michael Muheim 36,875
Josh Gould 36,150
Atanas Gueorguiev 31,975
Peter Jepsen 31,400
Moises Parrilla Ramos 30,650
Fabian Holling 30,375
Nico Behling 28,375
Arnaud Mattern 27,675
Kenneth Paul Hicks Jr. 26,425
Benny Falkenstrom 26,275
Julio Pollan 26,275
Isabelle Mercier 25,950
Joao Barbosa 25,450
Nicolo Calia 24,100
Brian Linnet 23,950
Patric Martensson 23,525
Nicolas Liakos 22,600
Ilja Savolainen 22,500
Michal Piechowski 22,500
Richard Gryko 22,250
Marcin Doliwa 21,975
Michał Zaremba 21,625
Juan Manuel Pastor 21,400
Juan Maceiras 21,300
Thomas Floan 21,125
Johannes Strassmann 21,025
Jacques Zaicik 20,975
Mika Puro 20,150
Gavin Griffin 19,925
Americo Spinozzi 19,300
Bartosz Skorupa 19,175
Kevin Macphee 18,975
Sandor Toth 18,900
Thomas Wolfer 18,250
Katja Thater 17,850
Gerrit Jan Van Hese 17,550
Andrea Benelli 17,250
Robert Kucharski 17,250
Grzegorz Mikielewicz 16,750
Hans Eskilsson 16,350
Laurence Houghton 16,100
Piotr Kopacki 15,450
Mario Kuhl 15,125
Sebastian Szuster 14,850
Frederik Brink Jensen 14,750
Miguel Antonio Silva Aroso 14,400
Remy Biechel 14,250
Alan Smurfit 14,000
Christophe Benzimra 13,975
Espen Slavensky 13,450
Gunnar Klietsch 13,350
Sven Leu 13,250
Alexander Kravchenko 13,150
Toni Ojola 12,975
Dan Pedersen 12,700
Beniamino Speroni 11,675
Andersson Mathias Per Gunnar 11,650
Csaba Toth 11,600
Nabil Bennour 11,575
Nicolas Levi 11,500
Stefan Rotach 11,050
Dino Civano Dinler 10,475
Michał Wiśniewski 10,150
Raul Paez 10,025
Bruno De Bari 10,000
Philippe Taupin 9,800
Pascal Perrault 9,525
Stefan Hjorthall 9,150
Leszek Krawczyński 9,125
Anthony Quinn 9,100
Eduard Kapitonov 9,025
Aliaksandr Marchanka 9,000
Zbigniew Szczep 8,875
Gino Alacqua 8,850
Jerzy Hajdamowicz 8,550
Marty Smyth 8,050
Uffe Holm 7,800
Stanisław Pardo 7,750
Jonas Molander 7,700
Aditya Agarwal 7,625
Michael Keiner 7,575
Vayo Gordon Francis 7,550
Joe Serock 7,400
Krzysztof Tabaszewski 7,150
Jaakko Lauttamus 7,000
Vanessa Thobert 6,125
Andrej Nagy 5,600
Wojciech Frankowski 4,600
Julien Van Lang 4,150
Miroslaw Klys 3,800
Dariusz Paszkiewicz 3,625
Riccardo Mazzitelli 3,200
Bekdas Sabri 3,075