2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague

EPT Prague Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
jj
Prize
€682,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,842,100
Entries
586
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 586
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Early Chip Leader Lays Down a Monster

Wow, craziness occurring here.

With 7,000 in the pot by the turn of the {K-Clubs} {J-Clubs} {10-Hearts} {4-Hearts} board, Gustavo Zito open-shoved. Just open-shoved, for around 27,000. Yup.

Over to a gentleman who will be known only as Mr. Cantonati until we can ascertain his first name. Mr. Cantonati, already a 60,000 big stack after finding aces to knock out Michael Tureniec and his pocket kings a little earlier, sighed. Eventually he folded an incredibly strong {K-Hearts} {J-Hearts} face up, to astonishment from everybody. Zito declined to show.

Bansi in the House

Just appeared at the felt is the unluckiest player on the EPT circuit, Praz Bansi. Despite often amassing a sizable stack in the first day or two, he has so far failed to cash, and will be hoping to break his curse this week...

Tags: Praz Bansi

Vallo Up Early

Martin Vallo
Martin Vallo
Add Martin Vallo to the list of early chip leaders. On a raggy nine-high flop, Vallo called an all-in raise from the man to his left. His opponent showed up pocket tens, an overpair to the board. But it was no good; Vallo turned over his two kings, and a rag apiece on the turn and river improved his chip count to 55,000 and sent another early victim to the rail.

Tags: Martin Vallo

Seed Fails to Germinate

Huck Seed looking oh so thrilled
Huck Seed looking oh so thrilled
Huck Seed is not one of the early winners at our Table Of Death.

Just now he bet out 2,500 on the river of a {3-Spades} {6-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} board, only for his opponent to make it 6,000 to go. Seed opted to fold, and is down to 20,500.

Tags: Huck Seed

Lodden Turns His Aggression On

Meanwhile Johnny Lodden is having a lovely morning.

He bet out 600 on a {J-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {A-Clubs} flop and got himself a call; he bet out 1,700 on the {2-Spades} turn and this time got a fold.

This was a mere drop in the Lodden chip stack ocean, though - following a clearly excellent little run, he's up to 49,000.

Tags: Johnny Lodden

Sarwer Not Winning Yet

Jeff Sarwer
Jeff Sarwer
Jeff Sarwer, who came 10th at EPT Warsaw and third at EPT Vilamoura, seems to have had a miserable couple of levels.

Down to just 10,000 already, he picked up a smallish pot now to bump his stack up a little. With the flop reading {4-Clubs} {5-Spades} {7-Spades}, the gentleman in the big blind checked to him and he bet 600. Mr. Big Blind now check-raised to 1,500 - but Sarwer made it 3,000 and the big blind folded.

Sarwer still looking a little shaky on 12,000.

Tags: Jeff Sarwer

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Van Den Beaten

Thierry van den Berg lost a relatively hefty pot when his opponent turned over {Q-?} {10-?} on the river of a {10-?} {2-?} {6-?} {J-?} {Q-?} board. Van den Berg declined to show, but merely commented, "Nice river."

However, the joys of picking up some early pots mean that he's still on an above-average 35,000.

Tags: Thierry van den Berg