It's a tough looking spot for Anton Wigg, the Swede is stuck to the right of compatriot and fellow EPT winner Michael Tureniec.
Wigg just bet 3,650 on the river a board only to have an opponent raise to 10,000. Wigg had two 5,000 blue chips ready to make the call but after some thought, elected to instead muck his hand.
Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder happens to be sitting at the same table as the EPT veteran Barney Boatman and the two got into an early battle. We caught the action on the board reading and Boatman fired a bet of 1,850 from under the gun. De Meulder, who was on the button, made the call and both saw the appear on the turn.
Boatman bet another 2,000 and De Meulder called again. The dealer opened the on the river and both players checked. Boatman showed his hand first which was for a two pair, but De Meulder opened for a higher two pair and collected the pot.
Juha Helppi has a tricky table draw with John Juanda and Andrew Lichtenberger both sat to his left, so he concentrated on taking chips from Borge Dypvik, who sits to his right.
The two were heads up to the turn of a board and Helppi called a 1,050 bet in position. Dypvik had seen enough and check-folded to a 2,000 bet on the river.
Andreas Vlachos from Greece opened the hand in the cutoff seat with a 750 raise and was called by the Dutch player Oscar Kemps in the big blind as well as the 2010 EPT Grand Final, Monte Carlo winner Nicolas Chouity under the gun and they went three-way into the flop.
The dealer opened which was checked by all three. Kemps bet 1,450 on the turn, Chouity made the call and Vlachos folded.
The two remaining players saw come on the river and Kemps lead again for 5,100 and Chouity went along with the call. Kemps flipped for a full house and Chouity mucked.
It's over five years since Peter Jepsen won EPT Warsaw back in 2007 but the Dane is back here for the start of EPT season 9. He's just picked up a small pot when he fired out bets of 1,075 and 1,600 on the turn and river of a board against Luis Maria Rodriguez with the latter calling him down.
Team PokerStars Pro and still World Series of Poker champion for another month, Pius Heinz, had to fire three bullets to dislodge Andrey Ivlev from a hand.
Heinz check-raised Ivlev's 550 c-bet up to 1,525 on a flop, and then went on to bet 2,850 and 6,425 on the turn and river. He was in the big blind and his Russian opponent called the first bet but tank-folded to the river bet.
The German is nearing getting back to his starting stack with 27,000.
svzff Steven van ZadelhoffNot too smooth of a start. Loose JJ vs a set and mis/blufffail flushdraw, ah well table looks ok: let's grind them out, 22k #eptbarcaAugust 19 2012
On a flop of , Erik Cajelais raised a donk-bet from the big blind from 300 to 800 but his opponent the made the call. The turn and river were checked down and Cajelais' foe showed and the French-Canadian mucked.