button in Safari
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Total Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 587
Filter
15 minutes of milling about and smoking now, followed by one more level and then hometime.
Back soon.
As the clock ran down to end level 8 it went a little action crazy
Firstly, Barny Boatman's pocket tens eliminated someone holding 
when all the money went in pre flop, The Hendon Mobsters opponent was short stacked and the pocket tens held up for Boatman. Then as Boatman was greeting the newest members of his chip family, Artur Wasek opened from early position and Boatman made the call. Remember that old saying about how dangerous a person is when they play a pot while still stacking their chips from their last hand! Well the small blind didn't remember it because he shoved and Wasek instantly shoved as well. Boatman looked to the heavens and eventually folded his hand, but after it was all over he wishes he hadn't. The board ran out 
. Wasek's pocket jacks were crushed against the small blinds aces and Boatman could only mutter about tales of what might have been as he declared that he had laid down pocket tens and would have flopped a set.
Boatman's chip stack took the elevator to floor 95,000 and Wasek took it to the basement 10,000.
On a nearby table Nicolas Levi and Bernahrd Braumandl found themselves locked in a big hand. We caught the action with 48,000 in the pot and a board of 
. The action was eventually checked down and Levi scooped the pot with two black Jacks and Braumandl folded face down.
Levi stack is now 105,000 and Braumandl is now 86,000
We arrived to find an 
flop on the felt and around 7,500 in the pot. Artur Wasek in the cutoff nonchalantly bet out 5,000. His opponent on the button gave him a look that seemed to say, "Really?" and then made the call.
Both players checked the turn and they proceeded to the 
river. Wasek paused for a moment, before betting out 10,125 with just 6,000 or so behind. His opponent folded, and Wasek let out a sigh as he showed his opponent a bluffy 
.
Wasek is back up to 34,000.
Matthew Frankland, although a relatively new arrival on the UK's (and Europe's) live tournament circuit already has winnings of over £75,000 and just doubled through here at the Pokerstars.net EPT Vienna to keep himself in the running for some more.
I caught this hand from the turn - he was heads up vs. Victorino Torres on a 
board and Torres had checked to him. He made a bet of 8,100, and after a brief pause, Torres made the call. The river brought the 
- a third diamond - and an immediate shove from Torres, who had Frankland covered. There was little hesitation from Frankland who pushed the rest of his chips in and showed 
vs. Torres' 
. No scare card was going to budge Frankland at this point, and as he stacked his new 40k or so two other players started talking to him in what sounded suspiciously like other British accents (therefore pretty much excluding the rest of the table from their deliberations). Still, good to see a bit of chat going - this tournament has been unusually low on multilingual banter.
Another significant pot for Nicolas Levi has started to catapult him up that leaderboard.
A player from middle position who seems to have been having a massage for the past hour opened for 2,000 and Levi made the call from the button. The flop of 
didn't deter our massage man as he made a bet of 5,400 and Levi again cool as a cucumber (with a cool hat on) made the call. The dealer laid the river on the board at exactly the same time that the massage woman started kneaded the initial raisers head. It must have affected him because he checked. Levi was not having any of it and made a value bet of 11,000 and his opponent made the call before quietly mucking his hand and returning to his massage after Levi showed him 
.
Levi now has 83,000.
Young UK player Charlie Combes has busted Marc Sander despite not being particularly stacked chipwise himself. He showed himself unwilling to be pushed off by a post-flop move made by Sander (and willing to get a bit of a gamble on at this late stage of Day 1A to build a stack)...
Preflop Combes raised to 1,850 first to act.
"Under the gun?" queried big blind Sander, before shrugging, saying, "You never know..." and making the call.
The flop came 
; "Check," said Sander. Combes fired 3,425 and Sander quickly moved all-in for about 13k. He got a quick shrug-call.
Combes: 
Sander: 
The open ended straight draw was good as Queen-Jack high, and Sander was up and out the door before the turn and river really had time to breathe face-up.
By the time we got to the table, the chips were in the middle and the cards were on their backs.
Jake Cody: 
All-in gentleman: 
Board: 
The newly busted gentleman sat there for a few moments, before leaving without a word. Cody watched him go, mouth agape. The coldness of the exiting gentleman was rather spoiled when he had to come back to collect his sweater a moment later though.
EPT Deauville and WPT London champion Cody is back up to 34,000.
Nicolas Levi has just doubled up and this is how it happened.
Levi opened for 1,600 from the hijack and received calls from the cut off, button, small and big blinds. The flop was 
and out of nowhere Pink Panther music came out of the speakers. There were a few laughs from around the table but not from Levi who threw out a bet of 2,700. He received a call from the cut-off and the rest of the players folded.
The turn was and Levi made it 6,125 and again the cut-off called. The river was the and Levi put his remaining 14,125 in the middle and the cut-off called. Levi showed 
and his opponent mucked his cards face down. After the Dealer called for someone from the floor to attend the cut-off's hands were turned over to show the rest of the table .
As familiar names go in poker, Spanish online qualifier Santiago Terrazas isn't exactly quite A-list, but he's almost as much an EPT fixture as TD Thomas Kremser. Barely an EPT goes by when we don't find him lurking in the field somewhere, and more often than not he's still lurking there in the latter stages of the tournament - most notably he finished third at EPT Barcelona last year for €300,000 and narrowly missed out on a second EPT final table when he finished 10th at the inaugural EPT Vilamoura a few months later.
We just now caught a small hand which didn't quite go Terrazas' way. He opened for 1,600 in the cutoff and the gentleman in the big blind gave him a suspicious look before calling and then checking the flop. Terrazas bet 2,500, but the big blind gentleman now check-raised to 6,000 and Terrazas gave it up with a little grimace.
Nevertheless Terrazas is still on around 80,000 after that, and doesn't look to be going anywhere any time soon.
