Main Event
Day 1b Started
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Loutraki
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Loutraki
Entries
336
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Welcome to Day 1B of EPT Loutraki! Greece is the Word.
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Welcome back to the second start day for this, the first ever EPT in Loutraki and in Greece as we're expecting an even bigger field than yesterday's 145 players for Day 1B.
Several Team Pros are playing today including Theo Jorgensen, Johnny Lodden and Eugene Katchalov for today's seven levels of play. Play will be starting at midday and with no dinner break we'll be looking at finishing the day around 8-8.30pm.
Remember people, it's a marathon not a sprint...
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The Cast Of Greece
It is a beautiful day here in Loutrakis. We suggest that we haul ass over to the beach and play there all day! Here are the guys and gals who have turned up on time.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
Mattern and Katchalov
Two Team PokerStars Pros Arnaud Mattern and Eugene Katchalov have started on the same table this afternoon. Mattern has been playing very well of late and has been very unfortunate in his last few outings in major tournaments. During the WSOPE Main Event he was disposed of in cruel fashion holding pocket aces against the eventual winners pocket tens. Then in WPT Amneville he held a set of tens on a rainbow board only to see an ace on the turn hand his opponent a bigger set of aces. In both of those tournaments if his hand held he would have been in a great position in the latter end of a big tournament. He will be hoping for better luck today and here he is clashing with Katchalov right from the outset.
Mattern raised to 225 in the cutoff and Katchalov defended the big blind (the small blind was absent). The flop came down 
and Katchalov check-called a 400 bet. The next card was the 
and this time Katchalov took the role of aggressor with a 900 bet but Mattern raised to 2,500. Katchalov took a few minutes to consider his decision before making the call. The river card was the 
and Katchalov checked to Mattern and he bet nearly 4,000. Katchalov folded instantly and Mattern gets off to a great start.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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33,150 | 3,150 |
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26,875 | -3,125 |
Grenaydenov
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Simeon Naydenov got into a host of action preflop against another player at his table, with them both putting in over 4,000 in preflop.
Surprisingly, the board was checked down to the 
river before Naydenov fired out a 5,600 bet - getting called. The Bulgarian flipped 
to win a big early pot.
Game Theo-ry
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Theo Jorgensen had opened to 300 before the player to his direct left reraised to 825, the Danish PokerStars Pro opted to flat-call and they went heads up to see a 
flop which Jorgensen checked across to his opponent.
The latter fired out 1,000 and Jorgensen gave it a moment's thought before check-raising to 2,700. It wasn't enough to get said foe to fold however and the call was made to see the 
turn. Seemingly a total blank, Jorgensen now fired out 4,700, forcing his opponent to tank for a couple of minutes before eventually mucking to the Dane.
Jorgensen moves up to 34,000 - a solid start.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Some More Players Who Have Arrived...a Tad Late
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
A Good Start For Behbehani and Not So Good For Rettenmaier
Salman Behbehani has arrived in Greece looking confident, and why not after just picking up €600,000 for his second place finish at Partouche last week. He is currently sharing a table with Marvin Rettenmaier (the German has position) and here he is winning a few hands.
Five players shared a family pot with Salman Behbehani joining from the small blind. The flop of 
was checked through and a 650 Behbehani bet won the pot on a turn of .
Then Behbehani raised to 275 on the button and Rettenmaier defended his big blind. The flop was 
and after Rettenmaier checked Behbehani won the pot with a 300 bet.
Behbehani is up to around 35,000 but Rettenmaier is down to 20,000 after paying off a set of tens with his two pair during an earlier hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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35,000 | 5,000 |
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20,000 | -10,000 |