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Wow, these Austrians really know how to deep-fry.
Players are back at the tables, sluggish to varying degrees, and cards are back in the air.
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
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Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
We're six full levels down, and it's time for a well-earned dinner break.
Back in 90 minutes.
That honour, plus, if this were a bounty tournament, the scalp of Andre Coimbra would go to Jae Young Kim, who busted the Pokerstars Team Online player in the very last hand before the dinner break.
With 5k in the pot preflop, Kim check-called Coimbra's 1,500 on the 
flop, and also his 2,500 on the 
turn. He checked a third time when the 
river fell, and now Coimbra considered his opponent's shortish stack (and his own) before betting 8,000. Kim moved all in for 14k and Coimbra could do nothing but check-call, having decided to bet his set of Kings (
) on the river but found the sly Kim with 
.
After an extremely unhappy and rather brief day, Marcin Horecki has finally kicked the tournament bucket.
He arrived late, and within minutes had suffered a kings-into-aces cooler that left him with just 6,000. He got pretty lucky to double up with 
against pocket kings, but he was soon back in microstack territory, and although we didn't manage to catch his eventual demise, we can tell you that he won't be making it to the dinner break.
Dominik Nitsche has just suffered a blow after his pocket queens just ran into Gustavo Zito's pocket aces. Nitsche opened from the cut-off and made it 1,050 to play. Zito called in the small blind before Paul Berende squeezed from the big blind. We didn't see the size of Berende's raise because almost immediately Nitsche moved all in and was immediately called by Zito. Berende folded after saying "why did I have to squeeze?"
Nitsche turned over the pocket queens and Zito turned over the pocket aces.
didn't help Nitsche who is now down to ~27,000
We join the action at table eleven slightly late but just in time to see Nikita Malinovskiy's raise receiving a three-bet by the small blind. The size of the three bet is 3,700 - Malinovskiy calls. The flop is 
and the small blind checks. Malinovskiy bets 3,500 and the small blind makes the call. The Dealer gives us a 
turn and the action goes check-check before he gives us the final card 
. The small blind bets 8,500. Malinovskiy puts his hand onto his chin and plays with two stacks of green chips before deciding to call and flips over 
. The small blind showed the 
only and The Dealer pushed the chips into Malinovskiy's direction.
Victorino Torres caught an opponent bluffing on the river - unfortunately bluffing with the best hand! This Mystery Player (he did not originate in this seat) had been betting, following it up with over 5k on the river as the board paired: 
. A good minute or so passed before Torres finally made the call, and then had to sit through one of those, "You show," "No, you show," standoffs - his opponent of course was forced to reveal first his then his ...
This turned out to be a slowroll as Torres showed 
offsuit! Grins all round as the winner apologised: "I'm sorry about that. I just never thought I'd win!"
Blind on blind action can sometimes result in exploding stacks which would otherwise never have reached that pitch of aggression. Just now Ognjen Sekularac faced a decision he clearly wasn't delighted with when as the big blind he threebet the small blind only for him to move all in preflop for 18,000! This effectively ended the options for the hand, and while the dealer took a little while sorting out the raise from what was in the pot Sekularac placed the 5k chip representing most of it in the pot with a thump and then frowned at the amount left to him to call.
He took a minute or so considering his options, before flipping over his hand on the way into the muck - a 
landed face-up and if the other card wasn't also a Nine I'll eat a stack of chips.
We caught up with the action on the turn of the 
board, when Alex Kravchenko bet out 1,400 from the small blind posiiton. Lex Veldhuis to his immediate left in the big blind called; across the table Fernando Brito in the hijack called too.
The river came down the and this time Kravchenko and Veldhuis both checked. Brito bet 2,800, and both the other players folded with a sigh.
Brito showed them pocket sixes for their troubles - that's flopped quads.
As it turned out, both Veldhuis and Kravchenko had turned a flush draw, and were most relieved that it hadn't come in on the river.
