Meanwhile, Rolf Slotboom is continuing to show his table his citric preferences. On level one he ate an orange, leaving the skin on the table. Now he's moved on to apples. "This apple traveled all the way from Denmark. It must be a good apple."
2007 EPT - Prague
EPT Prague Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2007 EPT - Prague
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
6,000
Players Left 1 / 0
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Meanwhile, Rolf Slotboom is continuing to show his table his citric preferences. On level one he ate an orange, leaving the skin on the table. Now he's moved on to apples. "This apple traveled all the way from Denmark. It must be a good apple."
.The small blind moved all in for 6,325, which was nearly three times the 2,600 that was already in the middle. He was reluctantly called by a player in middle position who had 2,000 left after making the call.
Julian Thew was left with a difficult decision on the button, wondering out loud if they were both on the flush draw. He eventually raised enough to put the original caller all in, which prompted a swift fold from the player who was getting 10-to-1 on his money.
Julian:
Small blind:
The turn was horrible for Julian, the
. The other player in the hand had folded 
, so he only had two outs left and the 
that fell on the river was not one of them.Julian was left with 9,000 after this hand, whilst the small blind tripled up to just over 20,000.
Rob Taylor has just taken a big hit and is down to 11,000 again.
"I figured the guy had nothing so I kept calling him down. On the river he went all in and I couldn't put him on a hand, so I called. He did have nothing, but he made a backdoor flush."
board, after betting half of his chips on the flop. He was called by a player with 
, and the 
fell on the river to make a straight which beat George's 
.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
board.There was already 8,000 in the pot and Ludovic had 7,500 in front of him. The big blind was his opponent, and had him well-covered. He gave Ludovic a grilling, first asking if he wanted a call, then asking if he would show if he folded. In the end, Ludovic's opponent folded with the immortal words, "You have a monster or a bluff."
Ludovic showed the
which in our books is definitely a bluff!
flop, and was called by 
. Marty's was in good shape, and no cruel turn or river saw him double up to 8,500.
It was funny after the first two levels, but I'm sure we'll all be really sick of it by Day 1b if not sooner.
Meanwhile, PokerStars qualifier Eric Turner from the USA has eliminated Spaniard Ton De Lange with
against 
on a king-high flop. Also, Czech player Jifi Kulhanek flopped a big blind special, making a straight with
in an unraised pot taking out German Frank Stumpf in an 8,000-chip pot.
At one point, he had over 40,000, then on my way back to the media room he was on 27,000 and trying to get a Norwegian player to fold a set of aces. Not surprisingly, he didn't succeed and showed eight-high.
