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2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
EPT Prague Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,842,100
Total Entries
586
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 586
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Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
, a three-way raising war erupted. We caught up with the action as the gentleman in the cutoff moved all in for 21,500 and the action moved over to Andrew Teng in early position, who disappeared into the tank. Eventually the clock was called, and it had timed right down when Teng called all in on zero - only to be told that his hand was dead, as his count only went down to one. Yikes.But as it turned out, it was a lucky escape. One Andre Ipaira in the hijack called, and flipped over
for a flopped top set. Mr. Cutoff could only boast 
for a flopped bottom set. Teng announced to the table that he'd had pocket nines for flopped middle set.The river was the
and Mr. Cutoff was busto; Ipaira meanwhile found himself possessor of around 70,000 in chips. Teng, suddenly very glad he timed out, is left with 22,500.
With the board reading
, the gentleman in the big blind position bet out 4,000. Bichon called, leaving himself just 7,000 behind.Come the
river, Mr. Big Blind checked, and after a moment's consideration, Bichon moved all in. Mr. Big Blind made a face, and folded.
On a board showing
, Mattern fired one last bet on the river. The amount wasn't clear, but it put more than 30,000 chips in the pot and left Mattern with about 11,500 in front of him. His opponent called after some time, and Arnaud tabled 
for the boat. After stacking up some more chips, Mattern is challenging for the lead with 55,000 here in the early going.
On what we'll call the Table of Immediate Death, we see that Joep van den Bijgaart, Julien Thew, and JP Kelly have been joined by Shaun Deeb to create a fearsome foursome of poker aggression.
And on the far side of the room, we have the Table of Prolonged Agony with EPT Season 5 Grand Champion Pieter de Korver, Michael Keiner, Stuart Rutter, and Jan Skampa.
There aren't a huge allotment of pros in the field today, but those that are here are set up for some captivating action.
