£5,000 EPT London Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

10-03-2009 15:34 UTC+2

And We're Back

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That's enough break time for anyone. Back to work.

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

10-03-2009 15:18 UTC+2

Break Time

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Time to hang around the lobby!

10-03-2009 15:17 UTC+2

Famous Folks Still Being Spotted

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Surinder Sunar
Brandon Adams
Benny Spindler
Antony Lellouche
Peter Gould
Josh Gould
Max Pescatori

10-03-2009 15:12 UTC+2

Minieri Will Not Be Required to Lift the Trophy This Week

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Yup, that's right -- Dario Minieri no longer needs to worry about whether his arms are up to the challenge, as he's busto already.

It seems he reraised with that classic reraising hand {5-?}

and naturally got three callers. He then proceeded to get his whole stack in when he flopped an open-ended straight draw, but he got called by a gent holding top two pair, failed to hit the turn or river, and instead hit the rail before lunchtime.

Tags: Dario Minieri

10-03-2009 14:52 UTC+2

Trickett Loses Most Of Stack In Hand 1...

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Sam Trickett recounted the tale of how he lost most of his chips in the very first hand after getting involved in a multiway pot with {Q-Hearts}

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Everyone checked a {K-?}

flop before Trickett bet 600 on the {8-?}

turn, he was raised to 1,600 and made the call.

The river was the {J-?}

and Trickett raised a 3,200 bet to 9,200 only to find himself min-reraised back. He made the call only to find his opponent holding {A-?}

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"And I rushed to get to the table for the hand as well..." laughed Trickett.

10-03-2009 14:51 UTC+2

Also Also Here

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Like an autostereogrammatic rendering of a Bosch painting, more and more people drift into focus the longer we stare at the field. Witness:

Ivan Demidov
Peter Hedlund
Steven Lichtenberger
Jonothon Butters
John Dwyer
Martins Adeniya
Erik Cajelais
John Juanda
David Williams
Michael Tureniec
Nick Schulman
Ketul Nathwani
Sammy George
Andrew Feldman
Steven Levy
Karl Mahrenholz
Morten Erlandsen
Boris Becker
Pascal Perrault
Reigning champion Michael Martin

10-03-2009 14:48 UTC+2

Juanda Gives A Little To Gain A Little

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As fields go for EPT's, this one certainly looks to be amongst the richest in terms of the so-called 'big players'. There's not a table you can go by without seeing at least one winner of a bracelet or a major tournament and it's rare that you'll see a table without two.

John Juanda, last year's WSOPE winner, was staring at a {J-Spades}

board, attempting to coax his opponent to go easy.

"You show, I show..." Juanda said, but his opponent bet 4,000. Juanda flipped {K-Spades}

for a missed flush draw with a turned gutshot and was rewarded by being allowed to see the {A-Spades}

that his opponent had.

10-03-2009 14:30 UTC+2

Also Here...

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Terrence Chan
Christer Johansson
David Oppenheim
Devilfish
Annette Obrestad
Praz Bansi
Jeff Lisandro
Neil Channing
Christian Harder
Jeff Kimber
Barry Shulman
Amnon Fillipi
Matt Stout
Dan Harrington
Allen Cunningham
Dennis Phillips
Eric Liu
Marty Smyth
William Thorson
Michael Martin
Vitaly Lunkin
Liz Lieu
Jesper Hougaard
Greg Raymer
Humberto Brenes
Stevie Devlin

10-03-2009 14:25 UTC+2

Who Else Is Here?

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The following familiar faces have all coughed up and sat down today:

Dario Minieri
Andre Akkari
Ray Rahme
Julian Thew
Willie Tann
Ruben Visser
Ross Boatman
Chad Brown
Alain Roy
Matt Hawrilenko
JC Tran
Laurence Houghton
Lex Veldhuis
Dan Shak
Jonas Molander
Allyn Shulman
Sorel Mizzi
Joe Hachem
Ben Grundy
Humberto Brenes
Yilfer Shevket
Matt Glantz
Roberto Romanello