Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
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
Entries
586
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 586
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Just now we caught up with him on the turn of a
board, to see him betting out 6,625 from under the gun. Voitto Rintala made the call, but Mattern bet out another 12,700 on the 
river and this time Rintala gave it up.
, a raising war ensued that left Ciprian Cirstea facing an all-in decision. He had about 32,000 chips in front of him, and his opponent -- completely clad in orange from head to toe -- had pushed his covering stack into the pot.Cirstea would tank it up for at least five minutes before Pieter de Korver finally looked up from his iPod. "Is it time?" he asked. A few players shook their heads no, and de Korver followed it up with, "Time, please." With that, Cirstea stood up from his chair, and Mr. Orange did the same, chatting it up the whole time.
The floorman was called over, and he waited a full minute before giving the ol' ten-second countdown. When he got to about one-and-a-half, Cirstea leaned forward and splashed his chips into the pot. His opponent showed up
, and Cirstea pumped his fist as he turned over 
. The turn and river came safe-safe for him, 
and 
respectively, and he's notched himself a big double up.During the entire ordeal, there was a new dealer standing behind the table waiting to push in. When the hand was over, the current dealer spread the deck and handed off the box. "Why is it that the longest hand of the day always comes right before my only break of the day?"
and a 10,000 bet in front of Rui Cao in the hijack. Cao looked extremely bored as Richard Grace in the big blind position considered his options. Eventually he folded.Cao showed him
for absolutely nothing, and is up to 110,000. Grace meanwhile is back down to 26,000.
. The first three checked, and the aforementioned Atanas Gueorguiev fired a bet of 1,700, somewhat reluctantly. Ramez Haddad made the call in position, and the two of them went heads up to the turn.It brought the
and another bet from Gueorguiev. Haddad called, and he faced another 3,300-chip bet on the river . Haddad matched the bet quickly, and Gueorguiev tabled 
. It was the winner; Haddad mucked, and Gueorguiev moves up to about 21,000.
Grace would find the board unpleasant indeed. Cao managed to find a king to pair up, and the Brit could not climb back into the hand to stay afloat. He's been eliminated, while Cao vaults up to about 130,000, the biggest stack we can find so far.
; Ville Haavisto in the big blind bet out 5,000, leaving himself 12,000 behind. The gentleman on the button raised to cover him, and after a moment Haavisto shrugged and called all in - but simply mucked when his opponent turned over for a straight.
