2007 PokerStars EPT - Dublin

PokerStars EPT Dublin Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2007 PokerStars EPT - Dublin

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
€532,620
Event Info
Buy-in
€7,700
Prize Pool
€1,701,700
Entries
221
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
2,000

Table Talk

Noah Boeken
Noah Boeken
When Noah Boeken and Andy Black we reunited at the same table, Noah extended his hand to Andy and said, "Andy Black, nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you . . . or was it from you? Was that you talking?"

Tags: Andy Black

New Seating Assignments

When the field hit 16 players, the players drew for new seats. Here's where they ended up:

Table 1

1. Kenny Hicks Jr.
2. Daan Ruiter
3. Tronde Eidsvig
4. Casper Hansen
5. Ludovic Lacay
6. Ziad Kaady
7. Reuben Peters
8. Michael Durrer

Table 2

1. Annette Obrestad
2. Thierry van den Berg
3. Martin Green
4. Reijo Manninen
5. Andy Black
6. Arshad Hussen (eliminated)
7. Noah Boeken
8. Anders Pettersson

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 500

Annette_15 Eliminates Arshad Hussain

Arshad Hussain, who entered the day as the tournament's short stack, managed to grind his way into the € 15,320 pay level, but his impressive run was just put to an end by Annette Obrestad.

Annette had made it 12,000 to go pre-flop and Hussain called from the small blind holding pocket fives; Annette held {A-Hearts}{9-Clubs}. The flop came {J-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} and Hussain shoved all in for his last 14,000; Annette made the call.

The heavy damage was done on the turn, as the {9-Hearts} fell on the turn, leaving Hussain drawing to two outs, which never came, as the {K-Clubs} completed the board.

Tags: Annette ObrestadArshad Hussain

Ruiter Doubles Through Lacay

Daan Ruiter just doubled up courtesy of Ludovic Lacay, winning with two black jacks against Lacay's black tens.

The flop came {8-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}{9-Clubs}, putting an interesting spin on the hand, as each player now needed to hit the other's pocket pair to make a straight. "Let him make a set," Ludovic said after the flop.

In the end, however, the jacks were good enough to take down the pot and Ruiter stacked up just under 250,000 chips with the win.

Tags: Daan RuiterLudovic Lacay

Johhny Lodden is Eliminated!

Johnny Lodden clashed with Annette Obrestad. All the chips were in pre-flop which seems to be the norm in the last while.

Annette {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}
Johnny {10-Clubs}{10-Spades}

The flop was a decisive {Q-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{2-Spades} and Johnny Lodden was eliminated in 17th place by his fellow Norwegian, earning €10,210.

A redraw for seats is now taking place amongst the last 16 players.

Tags: Annette ObrestadJohnny Lodden

Michiel Brummelhuis Eliminated

Michiel Brummelhuis
Michiel Brummelhuis
Ludovic Lacay just added 175,000 chips to his stack after eliminating Michiel Brummelhuis from the tournament. Brummelhuis opened the pot for 16,000 and when the action got around to Lacay, he opted to reraise, making it 55,000 total.

Brummelhuis then moved all in for approximately 175,000 and Lacay made the call, tabling pocket queens. "That's a nice hand," Brummelhuis said, as he turned over pocket nines.

"Come on, one time," he said aloud, as the dealer spread the community cards: {2-Diamonds}{J-Hearts}{K-Clubs}{K-Hearts}{A-Spades}. Lacay's queens held and the win moved him closer to the top of the leaderboard.

Tags: Ludovic LacayMichiel Brummelhuis

A Triple Double-Up!

A frenetic segment of action just took place with an all-in and call on each of the three tables. Luckily for us they had to wait as tournament director Thomas Kremser called the action on the microphone for each hand in turn.

They were as follows:

Noah Boaken doubling up Daan Ruiter in a 140,000-chip pot, sevens losing to nines.

Anders Pettersson doubled up when his pocket tens holding up against the suited K-Q of Ziad Khady despite the flop giving Ziad two overcards and a flush draw making him a temporary favourite. This was a 100,000-chip pot.

Lastly, Reuben Peters got a gift from Johhny Lodden, 120K pot again all in pre-flop. Johnny Lodden's J2 suited no good against the pocket sixes of Reuben.

Phew!.....

Play Resumes with a Bang

Simon Munoz
Simon Munoz
Minutes after the break, we lost our 19th-place finisher, Simon Munoz, who was eliminated by Andy Black.

Black had made it 14,000 to go from the cutoff, and the action folded around to Munoz in the big blind, who reraised all in for approximately 90,000; Black insta-called.

Black: {A-Diamonds}{10-Spades}
Munoz: {A-Clubs}{3-Spades}

The {J-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{10-Clubs} flop left Munoz drawing slim, with better hopes for a tie than a win, as it gave Andy a pair of tens. The {9-Diamonds} fell on the turn, giving Munoz even more chances for a chop pot. The {4-Spades} was the last card off the deck and Black's tens were good enough to take down the pot.

Andy climbed back over the half million mark in chips with the hand.

Tags: Andy BlackSimon Munoz