Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,501,700
Entries
722
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Rettenmaier Folds After Four-Betting
Marvin Rettenmaier had raised and Ilan Rouah flat-called before a third player reraised to 4,000 from the hijack seat. Play folded back to Rettenmaier and he four-bet to 8,625. Rouah mucked his hand and then the hijack seat moved all in over the top of Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier had between 42,000 and 43,000 behind and tanked for quite some time. His opponent had him covered by a bit, which meant that Rettenmaier's tournament life could be at stake if he were to make this call.
After a couple of minutes tanking, Rettenmaier decided to give it up. His opponent allowed Rettenmaier to pick one card to see. Rettenmaier grabbed one and turned it over to reveal the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
42,500 | -21,500 |
Raise, Reraise, Re-Reraise
Action folded to Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki in the hijack seat. He put in an opening raise to 1,125. In the cutoff seat, Chris Moorman three-bet to 2,525. Ben Vinson was next up on the button. He took some time before four-betting to 6,350. The blinds folded, as did Horecki. Moorman didn't go away so quickly, but did eventually fold after a minute or so in the tank.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
78,000 | |
|
67,000 | 2,000 |
|
57,000 | 6,000 |
Favia Chips Up Through Wasek and Boujenah
From early position, Ilan Boujenah raised to 1,025. Action folded to Francesco Favia in the cutoff seat and he three-bet to 2,550. In the small blind, Artur Wasek made the call. Boujenah also called.
The three players took the flop of 
and action checked to Favia. He moved all in for about 14,000. Wasek and Boujenah folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000 | 15,000 |
Flush Against Abecassis
Michel Abecassis raised from under the gun to 1,150. Action folded all the way around to Barkatul Mohammed in the big blind and he defended with a call to see the flop come down 
. Mohammed checked and Abecassis bet 1,500. Mohammed made the call.
The turn paired the board with the 
and both players checked. The river added a fourth diamond with the 
and both players checked again.
Mohammed tabled the 
for a flush and Abecassis mucked his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,000 | |
|
16,200 | -5,800 |
Another Round of Shots
As always, many thanks to EPT photographer Neil Stoddart for making our lives easy and our blog colorful.
DPeters and the Four Horsemen
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
We joined the pot on the turn, walking up to see David Peters betting 1,700 on a 
board. There was about 2,500 in the pot before that bet, and Ismael Bojang made a raise to 4,800. Peters made the call, and he checked the 
river. Bojang kept the heat on with another 7,200, but Peters check-raised all in for 13,575. Bojang hated it, but he dropped the calling chips into the pot.
Peters rolled over 
, and quads will do rather nicely. With a noise of frustration, Bojang shuffled his cards in his hands and then spun them into the muck, paying off his debt to double Peters up to just a tick over 40,000.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
O'Dea Booms a Double
Recent World Series of Poker November Niner Eoghan O'Dea three-bet to 3,600 from the big blind after Christopher Brammer raised to 1,000 from the button just as the tournament was going on another 15-minute break. Brammer opted to take a flop in position on O'Dea by flat-calling.
The flop produced the 
and O'Dea was to act first. He put out one blue T5,000 chip and two black T200 chips while announcing "4,200." Brammer took some time to think. After a minute or so in the tank, he slid out a tall stack of chips to put O'Dea all in. O'Dea pushed the rest of his chips across the line to put himself at risk.
O'Dea: 
Brammer: 
O'Dea's top pair was up against the gutshot straight draw and backdoor flush draw for Brammer. O'Dea could also lose if Brammer smacked a king.
Everything worked out for O'Dea as the turn brought the to pair the board and river the 
. O'Dea's hand held up and he was able to double. Upon final count, O'Dea was all in on the flop for 25,275. He's now at nearly 60,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,400 | 31,900 |
It's Time to Do Nothing
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
This day is 75% of the way through, and we've got just two more levels to play before we call it a night. First things first -- a fifteen-minute break.