Around the EPT circuit, the players tend to party just as hard as (read: much, much harder than) they work at the poker table. Last night, PokerStars put on another fine welcome party just up the mountain at the Goass Hall. All of the typical sights were on hand: cocktails flowing freely, bare-breasted women dancing on tables, PokerStars logos spinning on the ceiling, goats wandering around the bar. Okay, that last one is unique to Snowfest as far as we're aware. In any event, Gloria Balding was there with a VIP pass, and she caught up with a few of the players to find out their thoughts on coming here to the Alps to play poker. Check it out:
and was racing against his opponent's 
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and de Meulder is back up over the starting stack with about 33,000.
and both players opted to see the free card. The turn was the 
and the mystery player checked again. Hougaard bet 4,100 and was quickly called, leading to the 
river card. Hougaard's opponent bet 5,000 and Jesper gave up his hand, dropping to 39,000.
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river. It was checked to de Meulder again and this time be bet 8,500. His opponent made a quick call, mucking his cards when de Meulder tabled 
and Strassmann had bet 2,000 into the pot of roughly 4,000. His opponent went all in over the top for 24,750. Strassmann mulled it over for a few minutes and certainly had the chips to call, but opted to give it up and wait for a more certain spot.
board, Alex Kravchenko (cutoff) bet 7,000 and his opponent (big blind) tanked up. Kravchenko had less than 7,000 behind, but that didn't particularly matter as his opponent only had 10,000 left in total.
for a flopped set.
