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There are plenty of ladies on the tournament floor today, but most are dealers in sparkly pink dresses. Of the 180-odd players in the field, exactly three are female. Only Vanessa Selbst, Annette Obrestad, and Nelli Nufer are playing today. No matter how you spin it, that's a pretty depressing stat.
With the board reading 
James Mitchell was facing a bet of 5,200 on the river. This was almost double the size of the pot and it put the Irish Open Champion deep into thought, but after almost 3 minutes he folded 
face up, leaving himself with 29,000 back.
There was a raise from a gentleman in early position, and Dan Murariu in the small blind was the only caller to see the 
flop, which both players checked. Murariu checked the turn too before calling the 1,000 that his opponent casually tossed into the middle; Murariu checked the 
river as well and this time the preflop raiser checked behind.
There ensued a brief argument over who had to show their cards first - it was eventually ruled that Mr. Preflop Raiser had to show first as the last action had been with him - and he turned over 
for not much. Murariu turned over his 
to take the pot, and edged up to 37,000.
Players are off on their first break of EPT Season Seven. Time for coffee. We'll see you back here in 20 minutes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
||
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
38,500
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
|
||
|
37,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
||
|
34,500
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
|
||
|
34,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
34,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
32,500 | |
|
|
||
|
|
32,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
31,500
1,500
|
1,500 |
|
31,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
29,500
-500
|
-500 |
|
29,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
|
||
|
28,000 | |
|
27,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
||
|
26,000 | |
|
|
||
|
25,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
|
||
|
17,500 | |
|
14,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
|
||
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Former WSOP Main Event finalist Scott Montgomery was left cursing his luck on the river of a 
board. He paid off Cristiano Blanco's 2,300 bet on the end but was simply forced to throw his cards into the muck after Blanco turned over 
for a rivered set. Blanco and Montgomery are both on around 31,000 at this time.
Nothing is ever boring at Praz Bansi's table. After two limpers, Bansi raised to 900 from the cutoff. The small blind flat called, but out of the big blind, Kimmo Kurko reraised to 3,100. After two quick folds from the limpers, Bansi clicked it back, making it 5,500. The small blind got out of the way, and Kurko called.
Flop: 
- Kurko checked, and Bansi bet 5,525. Kurko flatted.
Turn: 
- Kurko checked again, and after a minute, Bansi moved all in for 12,575. There wasn't time to count until after the hand, however, because Kurko called in less than a second. "Whoops," Bansi said, not even needing to see his opponent's 
for top set and nut-flush draw to know that he was in trouble. After all, when you min-four bet with 
and then double-barrel bluff, it's tough to beat anything. Well, that is unless...
River: 
- Bansi binked his straight to the shock of Kurko. When the stacks were counted, Kurko was less than 100 chips short and hit the rail with some unhappy muttering. Bansi is up to 49,000.
It looked as though Arnaud Mattern had got into a reraised pot preflop with Philipp Gruissem, Mattern had fired out 2,000 into a pot of 3,100 on a flop of 
.
The German thought for a minute or two before making the check-raise to 5,250 and Mattern instantly folded. The former winner of EPT Prague's stack drops to 25,500.
