2008 PokerStars.net EPT Polish Open

PokerStars EPT Warsaw Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.net EPT Polish Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
$946,269
Event Info
Buy-in
$8,628
Prize Pool
$3,153,752
Entries
359
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Doing Poland Proud

Wojciech Frankowski
Wojciech Frankowski
Local player Wojciech Frankowski, playing today on his home turf, is off to a great start already having accumulated almost 20,000 in chips.

in a recent hand, with the board showing 5-J-6-7-A, action was checked to Frankowski who fired a 1,200 bet. His lone opponent in the hand made the call and tabled 8-4 for an eight-high straight. Frankowski one-upped his heads-up foe, however, revealing 8-9 for the nut straight and scooped the decent-sized pot at the end of the first level of play.

Frankowski is just three months removed from a final table appearance at EPT Prague in December 2007 where he finished in 9th place, earning over $11,000 in prize money.

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Tough Start For Thew

Julian Thew
Julian Thew
EPT Baden winner Julian Thew was down to just 700 chips and on the big blind. There were a couple of limpers and the flop came down {3-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{J-Clubs} and he called a 300 chip bet from the small blind player. He then moved in blind before the turn was dealt for his last 300. The turn was {9-Diamonds} and the small blind duly called.

Julian {Q-Diamonds}{J-Spades}
Small Blind {Q-Spades}{9-Spades}

The river was the {2-Clubs} and Julian is back up to 1700 chips now.

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Marcel Baran Eliminated

Marcel Baran
Marcel Baran
Marcel Baran had lost a few chips already when he found {K-Hearts}{K-Spades}. He had one opponent on a {J-Hearts}{J-Hearts}{9-Clubs} flop and decided to give a free card. The turn was the {7-Diamonds} and Marcel bet out and was called. Marcel shoved the rest in on a blank river but was insta-called by {7-Spades}{7-Hearts} and is eliminated.

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Dario Wins A Race...

Dario Minieri
Dario Minieri
Italian PokerStars professional player Dario Minieri just busted a player in a 10,000 chip pot. Pre-flop his opponent raised, Dario re-raised and then his opponent moved all in for just over 5,000 chips. Dario hesitated for just a moment before calling with {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}, his oppponent showed {J-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}. An ace on the flop sealed the deal for Dario.

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Break

The tournament clock has been paused while the players take their first 15-minute break of the day.

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Hubertz Stacks Opponent

Torben Hubertz, T6Poker's founder
Torben Hubertz, T6Poker's founder
Torben Hubertz, founder of T6Poker.com, has just eliminated an opponent from the tournament after winning a race holding pocket nines against his opponent's Big Slick.

All of the money went in pre-flop and the board filled out {7-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}, giving Hubertz two pair, tens and nines. The hand lifted Torben past the 20,000 mark in chips for the day.

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Trond Erik Eidsvig All In

Trond Eidsvig
Trond Eidsvig
With a board reading {9-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{10-Hearts}, Trond Eidsvig faced a bet of 2,600 from his opponent. There was already 8,000 in chips in the middle. Trond got his opponent to count his chips before deciding to move all in. Trond had him well covered and eventually, after repeatedly looking back at his cards, his opponent opted to fold and save the few thousand chips he had left.

Trond is now on 23,000 and as usual becoming a contender early in an EPT.

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