Main Event Day 1b | 2011 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

03-21-2011 18:29 UTC+2

Italians Clash On The Table of Doom

Matthew Pitt

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Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano has just been involved in a tussle with his fellow countryman Andrea Piva, which relieved the former of a few chips.

With the board reading {k-Clubs} {q-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {8-Spades} Pagano made a bet of 3,300 and Piva quickly made the call. The river was the {3-Clubs} and now Pagano checked, Piva bet 6,000 which left him just 3,500 chips behind and caused Pagano so sit up sharply and suck air through his teeth.

After sitting motionless for around 30 seconds he spoke to Piva in their native tongue and Pagano must have picked something up from their mini conversation as he mucked soon after.

Tags: Andrea Piva Luca Pagano

03-21-2011 18:24 UTC+2

Registration Is Now CLOSED

[user46392]

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After a somewhat lacklustre turnout of 180 yesterday (last year's Day 1a drew 270 players), we have outdone ourselves today. The official Day 1b field came to 302 runners, and the total for the combined Day 1s is 482 - not massively far off last year's field of 546, all things considered.

Prize pool info will hopefully be with us soon.

03-21-2011 18:20 UTC+2

Table of Death Watch

[user46392]

As you can see, of the numerous familiar faces at the Table of Death, it's only really Luca Pagano who's having a nice time so far. One Mr. Hans Erlandsson, currently at 65,000, is also presumably rather enjoying himself while he relieves the better-known pros of their precious chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Luca Pagano	55,000	-5,000
Kevin MacPhee	31,000	-6,000
James Sudworth	25,000	-725
Liv Boeree	15,500	150
Kevin Stani	10,000	575

03-21-2011 18:18 UTC+2

Assorted Chip Counts

[user46392]

Player	Chips	Progress
Fatima Moreira de Melo	61,000	4,000
Fabrizio Ascari	52,000	22,000
Jan Heitmann	49,000	19,000
Toni Ojala	47,000	17,000
Nicolo Calia	45,000	15,000
Daniel Drescher	44,000	14,000
Michael Tureniec	44,000	-1,200
Fernando Brito	42,500	5,250
Sebastian Ruthenberg	42,000	12,000
Nuno Coelho	42,000
Martin Jacobson	40,500	10,500
Julien Brecard	38,000	1,100
Mihai Manole	38,000
Kent Lundmark	37,000
John Eames	35,000	-1,875
Michael Eiler	34,000	4,000
Jasper Wetemans	34,000
Jeffrey Hakim	33,000	3,000
Tristan Clemencon	33,000	3,000
Ivo Donev	32,000	2,000
Vitaly Lunkin	30,000	-5,300
Russell Carson	29,500
Laurence Houghton	29,000	-50
Sandra Naujoks	28,000	4,600
Salvatore Bonavena	28,000	-5,700

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03-21-2011 18:16 UTC+2

Folding Not In His Lexicon

[user76023]

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Lex Veldhuis raised to 500 preflop and got calls in three spots to see a {10-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} flop where he continued with a 1,500 bet. The first player called, the second folded but the final one made it 6,000 to go with around 18,000 behind. Veldhuis moved all-in for 22,800 total, the caller folded and the raiser snap-called turning over {10-Hearts} {10-Spades} .

"I'm embarrassed," said Veldhuis as he gingerly turned over {a-Diamonds} {k-Diamonds} but the miracle suddenly was on when the {q-Diamonds} turn gave him a huge number of outs. The river was the {2-Clubs} - the ultimate in blanks and the Dutchman has been eliminated.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

03-21-2011 17:57 UTC+2

Some Fish (Not Really) And Their Chips

Matthew Pitt

Player	Chips	Progress
Luca Pagano	60,000	30,000
Michael Tureniec	45,200	15,200
Luca Falaschi	38,150
Fernando Brito	37,250	7,250
Julien Brecard	36,900	6,900
Vitaly Lunkin	35,300	5,300
Salvatore Bonavena	33,700	3,700
Laurence Houghton	29,050	-950
Johannes Strassmann	26,200	-3,800
James Sudworth	25,725	-2,275
Dario Minieri	25,500	-4,500
Sandra Naujoks	23,400	-6,600
Pierre Neuville	17,450	-12,550
Sofia Lovgren	15,900	-6,850
Francisco Torres	15,700	-14,300
Liv Boeree	15,350	-14,650
Kevin Stani	9,425	-20,575
Nicolas Levi	6,400	-23,600

03-21-2011 17:47 UTC+2

There's Snow Elky....

[user76023]

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Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is not here. Yet.

The Frenchman missed his flight out here and is going to be around 7 hours late to the tournament which according to fellow Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern will mean he will make it to the tournament with around 12-13,000 chips remaining late in the evening...

03-21-2011 17:45 UTC+2

Not Coming Bække to Defend

[user46392]

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What of last year's champion Allan Bække, you might ask? Well, further to his good fortune in winning the inaugural EPT in Saalbach-Hinterglemm last year, Bække and his girlfriend Kirstine have just been blessed with a beautiful baby girl whom they've named Karla. Understandably, Bække felt that he would rather hang out at home in Denmark this time than come back to Austria to play cards for a week.

Congratulations to the Bække clan, and we hope to see them all at other EPTs in the future.

Tags: Allan Bække