PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw Championship Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw
PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw Championship Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
23,500 PLN
Total Entries
203
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 203
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Members of Team PokerStars PRO that signed up to play today included Dario Minieri, Thierry Van Den Berg, Katja Thater, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Sebastian Ruthenberg, William Thorson, and Florian Langmann. Most of them made it to the bag-and-tag portion of the night, but Thater, Thorsen, and Langmann all came up a little short.
Antony Lellouche began the day rather quiet, but soon amassed the biggest stack in the room. Lellouche put the pedal to the floor in the last couple of levels with constant aggression to keep his stack growing. He finished with 131,475 chips. That's enough to put him in second place on the combined leaderboard, but still a ways behind Day 1a chip leader Carter Phillips. If you followed the event last year, Lellouche emerged as the chip leader after Day 1a, but failed to make it to the money. He'll be looking to better that outcome this year.
The tournament will resume tomorrow at 12:30pm local time (CEST) and the plan is to play five levels. That plan is very tentative, as the day might be cut short if too many players are sent packing early on. The levels will be increased to 75 minutes from here on out as well.
Thanks for following PokerNews.com and be sure to return tomorrow as we continue our live coverage of the 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw!
The player responded by tabling
and then Rinaldi showed 
. The board ran out 
and Rinaldi earned the elimination to move up to 55,000 chips.
laid out in front of them.Bendik checked and Sepman fired 1,900. The cutoff folded, but Bendik made the call.
The turn paired the highest card on board when the
came. Bendik checked again, with Sepman checking right behind.The river was the
. Bendik fired out a hefty bet of 7,000. Sepman looked pained by the bet and tanked for several minutes. He counted out the bet amount and the rest of his stack in two separate piles in front of him while thinking. A few moments later, he made the call.Bendik rolled over
for a full house after having flopped a set. Sepman looked as if he was about to table his hand, but then realized Bendik's hand was a lot more powerful than it started out to be. He mucked his hand, slipping to 13,000 chips. Bendik moved up to 82,000 chips.
"I like that." he repsonded. "I like it a lot."
It came
. Vitaly Tolokonnikov and Sorel Mizzi check-checked, and Sarwer continued out with a bet of 2,800. Tolokonnikov quickly ducked out of the way, but Mizzi called after a minute or two.Heads-up now, the turn brought the
. Sarwer watched Mizzi check again, and he shrugged and put another 5,600 into the pot. Mizzi considered for several more minutes before kicking in his cards, choosing to save his remaining 16,000 chips for a better spot.
Three-handed to the flop, the dealer spread out
. All three players checked to the turn. Polak led out into the pot with a bet of 2,500, enough to fold the original raiser. Deeb wasn't so easily pacified though, thinking it over for a couple minutes before flicking in the call.The last card off was the
. Polak checked this time, and Deeb asked to see his opponent's remaining stack. Both players had around 15,000 left apiece, and Deeb fired a bet of 4,125. That was enough to win the pot outright as Polak returned his cards back to the dealer."You checked to the wrong person," said Deeb with a chuckle. After a shaky start to his day, Deeb has rebounded to about 24,000.
Table mate Dario Minieri is also on the rise; he's back up to 52,000 after a similarly rough first few levels.
Eric fills in for Gloria to interview Shaun Deeb on one of the breaks in the action. Deeb talks about getting to Warsaw, his table draw, and even learns how to say "all in" in Polish. Check out the video.
