Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Visual Representations of the Inside of the Kursalon
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Super Late Arrrrival
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a stack which has been sitting in a lonely corner, having not been removed and refunded now has been claimed by its owner Tom 'durrrr' Dwan. If you're willing to pay the buy-in to have your stack kept warm, and don't mind missing only six levels of action, you too could vie for the title of 'Latest Possible Arrival.'
Who knows what's kept him - travel issues, stuck at the top of the ferris wheel, just didn't feel like it - he's here now and Table 13 is going to notice a difference in Seat 1's aggression levels.
Negreanu All-In
We are a few hands into the break and Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu already looks like he could do with another one. Maybe Adrian Veghinas was thinking the same thing?
A player in seat six opened for 1,500 and Veghinas made the call before Negreanu made the squeeze play from the Small Blind making it 5,600 to play. Seat six folded and Veghinas confidently Four-Bet Negreanu to the tune of 12,500. Negreanu looked up and down his chip stack before pushing them over the line for the all-in and Veghinas instantly mucked.
Negreanu now has a stack of ~59,000
One In, One Out
Actually it's more like one in, a hundred out, and the latest casualty appears to be Michael Schreiner. How exciting to return from dinner break, full of delicious Wienerschnitzel or similar, and, rejuvenated, pick up 
within an orbit and get your whole stack in preflop and be up against 
... and how depressing when the Ace pops out almost immediately to cut short your run at the EPT. That's precisely what happened to him.
Others who disappeared around the dinner area include Team Pokerstars Pro JP Kelly who nursed a short stack for a number of levels before finally busting.
Runner-Runner for Riverman
The 
board was fully dealt by the time we arrived, and Laurence "rivermanl" Houghton was betting out 14,000. His opponent ummed and ahhed for a little while before making the call, but promptly tossed his cards in the muck when Houghton flipped 
for a flush.
Houghton was up to 75,000 after that, and he must have found a fair bit of momentum as the next time we passed by his table, he was up to almost 100,000.
Sunar or Later?
We did not catch the action but the board read 
. Surinder Sunar had 13,000 behind him and his opponent in Seat 6 and pushed a huge stack of yellow chips into the middle of the table effectively asking Sunar the question, "Are you going to double up or leave?" Sunar decided he was staying and folded his hand but he only has ~13,000 left with blinds now at 500/1000 and ante of 100.
Assorted Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000
69,800
|
69,800 |
|
90,000 | |
|
82,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
||
|
82,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
||
|
77,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
||
|
74,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
||
|
65,000
35,500
|
35,500 |
|
||
|
65,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
||
|
60,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
|
54,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
54,000
34,000
|
34,000 |
|
|
||
|
50,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
45,500
500
|
500 |
|
|
||
|
|
45,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
|
40,000
9,600
|
9,600 |
|
38,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
|
||
|
35,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
35,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
|
||
|
32,000
-32,000
|
-32,000 |
|
30,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
27,000
13,800
|
13,800 |
|
24,200
-14,800
|
-14,800 |
|
|
||
|
|
23,400
200
|
200 |
|
22,500
-16,500
|
-16,500 |
|
|
||
|
19,300
-5,700
|
-5,700 |
Camera Tennis Anyone?
Team Pokerstars Sportstar Boris Becker now has a stack of ~37,000. He has had a lot of camera attention today but now he has some opposition as Tom Dwan has arrived at the table next to him. This has resulted in a game of camera tennis as the mass media swing back and fore between Becker and Dwan. We caught up with him during this hand.
A player in middle position opened to 1,500 and Becker made the call in the Small Blind. The flop was 
and they both checked. Turn 
Becker fired out a volley of 1,500 and his opponent folded. Game, set and match Becker.
Thor Hammers Opponent
Some extreme curiousness at Thor Drexel's table, as we believe the gentleman in the small blind raised and Drexel reraised from the big blind. The small blind re-popped, Drexel called, and they saw a flop.
Flop: 
The small blind gentleman bet out 7,000, and Drexel flat called. They proceeded to the turn.
Turn:
This time Small Blind Gent checked, and Drexel paused for a moment before betting 7,800. Small Blind Gent now check-raised to 25,000, and Drexel immediately went all in for around 11,000 more.
The small blind announced a fold, but took Drexel's cards and put them with his own, before peeling them up to take a look. He turned over 
but it wasn't exactly clear which cards had belonged to whom. We suspect that both of the aces were in Drexel's possession.
The young Norwegian is now up to around 90,000.