2009 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw
PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw Championship Main Event
Day: 1a
Hold Up
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Play Resumes
Pagano Picks One Up
The turn brought the and the first player led with a bet again into Pagano. The bet was for 1,100 and Pagano opted to raise to 3,000. This sent his opponent into the tank and he eventually folded. Pagano is up to 44,000 chips.
Manole Back to Starting Stack
The flop came down and the big blind fired 2,700. Manole took his time, being a very methodical player if you remember our EPT Barcelona coverage, but eventually folded his hand. He's slipped back down to the starting stack of 30,000.
Tulchinskiy Takes a Small One
That quickly folded Rintala, and the button would eventually release his hand as well, flashing the as he returned his cards to the dealer. Tulchinskiy is up to about 38,000.
Mattern Doubles Up
Mattern was the player at risk holding versus his opponent's . Mattern was all in for a total of 12,300.
The board ran out to keep Mattern's kings best and double him up to just under 26,000 chips.
Flight Day 1a
Crazy Eights for Eastgate
The flop came , and Eastgate tapped the table. He watched his opponent continue out with a bet before sticking in a small check-raise. His opponent shoved his stack forward, and Eastgate called all in for his last 15,000 or so. His opponent tabled , and Eastgate's had outflopped him in a big way. The turn was a safe , and the extremely safe spiked the river to improve the defending WSOP champ to the winning quad eights.
That double up moves Eastgate back over the starting stack to about 33,000.