He won a pot just now after John Juanda raised to 600 preflop and was called by David Eldar - he called in position and also called Juanda's 1,800 bet on the
flop. Then, when Juanda checked the 
turn, he took the pot with a 3,300 bet.
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€25,000 High Roller Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€1,975,000
Entries
79
Level
23
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 79
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He won a pot just now after John Juanda raised to 600 preflop and was called by David Eldar - he called in position and also called Juanda's 1,800 bet on the
flop. Then, when Juanda checked the turn, he took the pot with a 3,300 bet.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Daniel Negreanu
Gus Hansen
Luke Schwartz
A huge crowd is in the process of forming there. There is non-stop banter, mainly between Schwartz and Negreanu, meaning that it's tempting just to hover over there until they say something funny, but there's action all over the shop. Quite slow, measured action at this stage of the tournament, but action nonetheless.
in the small blind, checked, and then when the button bet 1,025, raised to 2,775. The button passed, but the third player in the hand, Sammy 'Any Two' George, made the call.The turn was the
. Very slowly, Demidov bet 4k. Very quickly, George called.The river was the
. There was another brief tank from Demidov, before he shoved for his remaining 8,025. Again he was snapcalled - and turned over 
. "AWWWW F***!" Said George, shaking his head. He seemed frozen in time a little, delaying either showing or mucking his hand. He checked it three times, still shaking his head. Eventually he mucked, but had to be prompted by the dealer to pay up the double-up. "I flopped f***ing top two pair!" he said at last, coughing up the chips. Judging from his nickname, that could've been true, but we never got to see his hand.
Today he hasn't really gotten going, with the banter or the chip accumulation, but I did pass by his table while he was handing his mobile phone to his neighbour to look at something.
The other player looked at it, and started laughing. He handed it back saying, "God help us," which made the temptation to run and look over his shoulder almost irresistable. I resisted, though.
Sammy George - 63,000
David Steicke - 73,500
Dan Shak - 78,000
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier - 70,000
No one super short, no one busto - but plenty of healthy-sized pots belied by the similarity in stacks shown by almost everyone.
I caught the tail end of this hand which had formed an 8k+ pot around a board of
. Steicke bet out 5,025 (he was UTG) and James Obst thought about it for a while. He eventually called, but mucked when Steicke showed him the 
for the rivered flush.
flop, 4,000 on the 
turn, but just didn't give it a go on the river. Van Til checked behind and picked up the pot with his 
(Shakerchi held 
).He got those chips back (well, not exactly the same ones) courtesy of Ilari Sahamies the next hand, though. Sahamies check-raised the
flop, and Shakerchi called. They both quickly checked down the turn and river - 
- and then sort of paused. Neither wanted to turn over their hand..."I have a pair," said Sahamies.
"Mmm," said Shakerchi.
"It's small..."
There was no answer, and Sahamies ended the standoff by showing the
. Shakerchi then rolled over his and took the pot.
