EPT Main Event | 2007 EPT German Open

03-11-2007 18:03 UTC+2

Rasmussen takes out Sokalski

[user22113]

Rasmussen opened in the cutoff for 60,000 with {A-Hearts}

and Sokalski moved all in from the button for about 150,000 with {A-Diamonds}

. Rasmussen calls.

No help for either hand on the board and the last remaining American (right) is out in 12th position.

03-11-2007 18:16 UTC+2

Stiehler raises to three blinds from under the gun, Fougeron next to him comes over the top all in. The action folds to Rasmusson who clearly laid something big down because of the time it took him to muck. Stiehler calls Fougeron (whose legs were bouncing up and down under the table with excitement)

Fougeron has {A-Spades}

Stiehler has {K-Spades}

No idea what the board was because several thousand Frenchmen surrounded the table, needless to say the aces held because Fougeron was punching the air and screaming with delight.

Keep tuned for this Rocky story as it develops

Tags: EPT Thomas Fougeron

Level: 21

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 3,000

03-11-2007 18:22 UTC+2

Players feeling the pressure

[user22113]

Play has really slowed down now. Stiehler got a double up through Levi with {8-Diamonds}

but other than that not much has heppened as every player is desperate to avoid the final table bubble.

Jacob Rasmussen (right) from Denmark is the current chip leader closing in on 1 million in chips.

03-11-2007 18:31 UTC+2

Blanco surges ahead, Muecklisch out

[user22113]

Cristiano Blanco has just won a huge showdown against Michael Muecklisch.

Muecklisch raises to $55k from the button, Cristiano calls.

Flop is {7-Clubs}

check check

Turn is {2-Hearts}

, Muecklisch bets $80K, Cristiano calls

River is {7-Hearts}

, Cristiano bets $125K, Muecklisch goes all in for a total of $370K, Blanco calls.

Blanco has {K-Hearts}

, which beats Muecklisch's {J-Hearts}

.

This took Muecklisch down to barely having a blind, he has just been eliminated in the next hand.

03-11-2007 18:39 UTC+2

Phillip Yeh is out in 10th

[user22113]

He had been bleeding chips all through the afternoon and just busted out against Andreas Hoivold.

We don't have the hands just yet.

We are now redrawing for the final table of 9.

03-11-2007 18:44 UTC+2

We are on a break, down to the last table

[user22113]

Players are on a break as the final table is set up. With 9 players left the official TV table is not until we are down to 8, but we should have TV coverage from this point on.

03-11-2007 19:08 UTC+2

Seperated at birth?

[user22113]

Bobcat Goldwhaite who played Mr. Zed in Police Academy and Thomas Fougeron who is currently at the final table of the Dortmund EPT.

Scary stuff.

All I need now is for Fougeron to go all in doing his Mr. Zed impression and it will make my day.

03-11-2007 19:14 UTC+2