Platinum recording artist Nelly spent some time with Gloria before he sat down to play on Day 1b, here at the EPT Grand Final. Unfortunately, he's since busted from the tournament, but is currently hanging out around the poker room, mingling with some of the players. We've got a reporter on Jeff Madsen v. Nelly battle watch. Keep your fingers crossed.
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 1b
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Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
on a board of
. By the particular timbre of the "oohs!" around the table, we deduced that Fry had been holding a better ace preflop."Thank you come again," said Hachem in a rubdown sort of way, and then went off on some sort of rant involving him repeatedly mentioning that he'd once won the WSOP main event.
I believe this had something to do with an earlier supposed rubdown that had come from Fry, in a hand where Fry outdrew him. The actual background surrounding this is admittedly somewhat hazy, but Fry was quietly asking Hachem to, "Relax," while Hachem continued, "Just because you win the World Series you can't complain about losing a hand? You're all a bunch of wankers." The discussion was still raging some minutes later.
Hachem: 24,000
Fry: 33,000
board after Laak had checked.Laak: "Do you want me to call, sir?"
Opponent: [no response]
Laak: "Or you can just sit there motionless and stoic.. What do you have left? (roughly 10,500) So it's a milky type bet. Take the money! It hurts me though, hurts me..."
While his opponent stacked the chips, "OK I'm over it!" Phil declared.
EPT Baden winner Julian Thew.
. The raiser checked and Kang checked behind. On the
turn, Kang called a bet of 3,000 fairly quickly, but thought a lot more about the 4,000 bet on the
river."So sick," he commented, still not releasing his grip on the chips for the call. "You're just folding anyway," said his impatient opponent. No - he called, only to be shown
by his opponent. Kang mucked saying "So sick," another couple of times for good measure.
board. It appears that when the action moved around to Ilari Sahamies on the button, he said something that was probably, "Oh," but the dealer somehow heard "all in" instead. The floor was called and after everyone at the table spent some time all talking at once, it was decided that Sahamies was indeed calling all in.Sahamies:
Jachtmann from Hamburg:
River:
Jachtmann exploded in a flurry of German (probably) expletives, while Sahamies coolly declared, "I think I would call anyway," and raked in the 44,000 pot. Jachtmann down to 14,000 and full of anger.
. Ummer, on the button, had bet the flop and failed to shake anyone, and now had it checked to him again. He bet 12,000 and Bisano alone called.The river was the
. Bisano checked, and this time Ummer opted to check behind, leaving himself 8,000. He showed down
- which was no good vs. Bisano's
.