2007 EPT German Open

EPT Main Event
Day: 3
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Event Info

2007 EPT German Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q♣q♠
Prize
$881,398
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
6,000

The Players who have cashed so far are as follows

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14 Jesper Witved (Denmark) €20,900
15 Tommy Krarup (Denmark) €16,250
16 Ben Grundy (UK) €16,250
17 Jens Vortmann (Germany) €12,750
18 Tommy Dender (Denmark) €12,750
19 Andreas Hagen (Norway) €12,750
20 Mark Bartlog (Germany) €12,750
21 Mike Tse (UK) €12,750
22 Ellezer Tuncer (Germany) €12,750
23 Madassar Khan (Denmark) €12,750
24 Miroslav Sima (Czech Republic) €12,750
25 Mathias Andersson (Sweden) €9,250
26 Paul Foltyn (UK) €9,250
27 Marco Liesy (Germany) €9,250
28 Dirk Specht (Germany) €9,250
29 Mickey Wernick (UK) €9,250
30 Mackay Anthony (UK) €9,250
31 Mika Paasonen (Finland) €9,250
32 Fredrik Haugen (Sweden) €9,250
33 Masaaki Kagawa (Japan) €6,950
34 Fredrich Hostrugs (Denmark) €6,950
35 Jose Luis Navarro (Spain) €6,950
36 Inge Haugland (Norway) €6,950
37 Florian Longmann (Germany) €6,950
38 Ben Wolbers (Holland) €6,950
39 Jim Kerrigan (UK) €6,950
40 Hans Eskilsson (Sweden) €6,950
41 David Ros (France) €5,800
42 Thang Duc Nguyen (Germany) €5,800
43 Pablo Rua (Spain) €5,800
44 Markus Schlepphorst (Germany) €5,800
45 Holm Henrik (Denmark) €5,800
46 Johansson Christer (Sweden) €5,800
47 Paul Gourlay (UK) €5,800
48 Sverre Sundbo (Sweden) €5,800

Pokerstars FFP Qualifiers have a shot at riches

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2 of our remaining 13 players who are now playing for thousands upon thousands of Euros qualfied for this event using Frequent Player Points (FFPs) on Pokerstars. Micheal Muecklisch and Sebastian Ruthernberg are both here essentially for free.

Now, as I am about to get my hands on a High Definition TV myself using the FFPs I have accrued on Pokerstars, I certainly am an advocate of this superb reward system (although I may have lost the equivalent of 16 TVs while accumulating the points). Its not just about T-Shirts and baseball caps, should one of these guys go on to win expect the FFP games to become very popular.

Tags: EPTFFPFrequent Player PointSebastian Ruthenberg

And the lucky remaining 13 are....

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Jacob Rasmussen (Denmark) 657,000
Philip Yeh (Sweden) 597,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg (Germany) 537,000
Michael Muecklisch (Germany) 440,000
Gunnar Rabe (Sweden) 431,000
Cristiano Blanco (Italy) 424,000
Nicolas Levi (France) 365,000
Johnny Lodden (Norway) 360,000
Andreas Hoivold (Norway) 335,000
Vincent Sokalski (USA) 278,000
Erik Lindberg (Sweden) 236,000
Thomas Fougeron (France) 192,000
Christoph Stiehler (Germany) 182,000

Play is due to start at about 3PM today. We are told the final table will go live at 5PM but my guess is that this is a bit optomistic. Either way we will be bringing you up to the minute reports from the final days play.

EPT Profile - Thomas Fougeron

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We've just been talking to Frenchman Thomas Fougeron outside on the balcony. Amazingly his comeback from 2 big blinds on day 1b to being within earshot of the final table is not his biggest comeback. "In France, I came back from one ante to win a winner takes all single table tournament, we were down to 4 players and I offered them a deal at the time".

Thomas is very optimistic today and says that any result from this point on is good "when I got back to 9000 from 600, the average stack for 20000, for most people this would be bad, but I felt very good, very confident".

I suggested to Thomas that maybe he should aim to start every tournament from so far behind in the future.

Tags: DortmundEPTPokerstarsThomas Fougeron

The Blinds

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There are only 4 levels left in the official EPT structure so we expect they will be rolled back at some point, most likely once it is down to 8 players.

Level SB BB ante time
20 10000 20000 2000 60
21 15000 30000 3000 60
22 20000 40000 4000 60
23 25000 50000 5000 60

Level: 20

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 2,000

A tense start to the final day

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As you can imagine, none of our players are doing anything too crazy so far. There is a table set out in near view with suitcases full of money reminding the players of what awaits them at the final table

Lindberg doubles up

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Vincent Sokalski straight pushed all in for over 400,000 on the in the cut off with {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} and was called immediately by Lindberg in the big blind with {Q-Hearts}{Q-Spades}

Board {Q-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{4-Spades}

Queens full for Lindberg who now sits on over 600,000. Sokalski is crippled and will need to move all in several times in this level to try and survive.

3 high ist gut!!

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Eric Lindberg has suddenly been put under pressure in a disastrous hand. I'm not certain of the preflop action but Nicolas Levi must have attacked his big blind and he defended with {K-Hearts}{J-Hearts}. The flop came {J-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} all clubs.

All the chips flew in and Levi turned over {2-Clubs}{3-Clubs} for a flopped flush.

Levi wins a pot of about 650,000

Johnny Lodden is out

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The runaway favourite after day 1a is gone

Nicholas Levi (who just took a big pot from Lindberg) raises to $60000, Lodden goes all in immediatley for $208000, Levi calls:

Levi shows {A-Hearts}{K-Spades}

Lodden turns over {6-Spades}{6-Hearts}

The flop comes {4-Hearts}{3-Spades}{3-Clubs}

The turn is a {A-Spades} which sends Lodden home when the river is an irrelevant {5-Spades}

And with the favourite gone the game is wide open.

Tags: DortmundEPTJohnny LoddenNicholas Levi

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