2007 EPT Warsaw

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info

2007 EPT Warsaw

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
7♥7♠
Prize
1,266,711 PLN
Event Info
Buy-in
15,800 PLN
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
3,000

Day 1B Chipcounts

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We can now bring you the official counts for Day 1B. Once more, the sheer weight of Scandinavian numbers means there is an abundance of players from that region at the head of affairs. However, the one and only survivor from North America on Day 1B, Roberto Matic from the USA, made up for his compatriots' failings by building a substantial chipstack to lie in third place for Day 1B.

Here is the full Day 1B list. We will summarise the full Day 2 roster of starting players, of which there are 93 from the original 284 who started, in the Day 2 section of the Live Updates.

74,000 - Marius Skoglund Torbergsen (Norway)
73,300 - Peter Willers Jepsen (Denmark)
71,900 - Roberto Matic (USA)
63,200 - Paul Kristoffersson (Sweden)
57,200 - Orjan Holt (Norway)
57,100 - Jakub Wiśniewski (Poland)
55,900 - Åge Spets (Norway)
51,100 - Jacob Juhl (Denmark)
50,400 - Andrew O'Flaherty (UK)
42,400 - Ole Gammeljord (Denmark)
41,900 - Łukasz Wasek (Poland)
41,300 - Christopher Ulsrud (Norway)
40,800 - Benjamin Kang (Germany)
40,400 - Frederik Hostrup Pedersen (Denmark)
40,300 - David Gregory (UK)
38,800 - Anders Berg (Norway)
36,000 - Piotr Łopusiewicz (Poland)
35,500 - Bertrand Grospellier (France)
33,600 - Ben Grundy (UK)
33,100 - Thomas Billum (Denmark)
32,700 - Farid Meraghni (France)
30,400 - Jes Bondo (Denmark)
27,800 - Dennis Bejedal (Sweden)
26,400 - Dennis Barting (Denmark)
25,300 - Ross Boatman (UK)
24,700 - Søren Kongsgaard Nielsen (Denmark)
24,700 - Jan Wronowski (Poland)
23,200 - Rolf Woods (Norway)
21,600 - David Welch (UK)
20,200 - Tomasz Al Chalabi (Poland)
19,800 - Torstein Berget (Norway)
19,300 - Jani Sointula (Finland)
18,200 - John Conroy (UK)
17,800 - Thomas Tyszkiewicz (Sweden)
17,200 - Przemyslaw Samsel (Poland)
15,500 - Julien Neumann (France)
15,300 - Tomas Alenius (Sweden)
14,800 - Martin Vallo (Denmark)
14,600 - Michael Van Putten Due (Denmark)
14,100 - Fabrice Soulier (France)
13,500 - Juha Helppi (Finland)
11,800 - Katja Thater (Germany)
10,500 - Juuso Kauppinen (Finland)
9,300 - Christoffer Sonesson (Sweden)
9,200 - Paul Testud (France)
9,000 - Christopher Robson (UK)
7,200 - Simon Kelly (Ireland)
7,000 - Peter Eichhardt (Sweden)

Queens of Torture

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Quad Queens crack Simon Kelly's Aces
Quad Queens crack Simon Kelly's Aces
There are several ways to suffer painfully in the pursuit of poker success. Here is one such method:

You spend 12 hours grinding, concentrating and accumulating chips in the pursuit of a life-changing monetary prize. You have paid a meaningful sum to enter the test but you do what is necessary for 12 hours. Near the end of the day, you have made good progress and then you are dealt {A-Clubs}{A-Spades}.

Before you know it, most of your chips are in the middle as someone with a good stack, smaller than yours but not by much, turns over {Q-Clubs}{Q-Spades}.

You know that to win this very favourable situation will put you close to the chip leaders and in with a realistic shout of making headway in an EPT Main Event!

The dealer turns over a flop of {Q-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}. Your opponent stands up and hollers in ecstacy. Decorum is not on his list of priorities. Your world and dreams have evaporated. It is indeed poker torture.

Sadly, this fate befell Irishman Simon Kelly in the last level and because Marcel Luske was also on the table fighting for his tournament life, TV cameras and many journalists were also crowding round to drool over the quad queens that cracked aces. Poor Simon.

Tags: Marcel LuskeQuadsSimon Kelly

Denmark Puts One Over on Norway

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Age Spets (left) locks horns with Peter Willers Jepsen (right)
Age Spets (left) locks horns with Peter Willers Jepsen (right)
On one table a "situation" was building between two fast growing Scandinavian chipstacks. Norway's Åge Spets was showing strength for a good while and sat with some 55k in chips. Two to his left sat Peter Willers Jepsen of Denmark, a high-stakes online player of some repute according to Scandinavian journalists in the press room. He, too, was sporting over 50k. Spets bet out 2k before the flop and Jepsen announced "I will have to raise". He threw in a handful of blue chips each worth 1,000. Jepsen declared that he would need at least AQ to make that raise. Spets was not deterred and retorted "I will have to call."

The flop came down {10-Spades}{9-Hearts}{3-Clubs}. Spets checked and Jepsen slid something like 10k into the middle. Spets revealed AK offsuit as he folded. Jepsen showed 88 to show the 10 and 9 didn't put him off his stride.

A big stride it was too, taking him to over 70k in chips and into the chip lead.

Tags: Åge Spetschip leaderPeter Willers Jepsen

Technical Hitch!

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Sorry for the delay everyone, but the internet feed to the Hyatt Regency died a death during the last level of play. We decided it would be best to repair to our own hotel where the internet connection is trustworthy and conclude with a couple of snippets of information. We cannot therefore update the chipcount estimates but we'll bring you official chip counts in the European morning. In the meantime, we'll finish tonight with some news of a new chipleader.

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King Kang!

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Benjamin Kang and ElkY are cranking it up on Table 4
Benjamin Kang and ElkY are cranking it up on Table 4
Benjamin Kang is building up a mountain of chips. The giant German has got his table quite tilty by the sounds of things.

"Ok, everybody. Let's stop steaming now", said Kang.

ElkY and Ben Grundy are likely to take a fancy to Kang's mouth-watering 48,000 chip stack (Kang's own estimate).

78 players are left at this point.

Tags: Ben GrundyBenjamin KangBertrand GrospellierElkYMilkybarkid

Slade Slip-Slides Away

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Nick Slade is out. I heard something about an incident with his pocket jacks. However, like everybody else on the floor, I was more interested in watching the Marcel Lüske / Andy Black show.

Andy is cheering on Marcel from the rail. Despite his short stack, Marcel is commanding respect from everybody. The banter and one-liners are coming thick and fast.

Tags: Andy BlackMarcel LüskeNick Slade

A Sick Table

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"A sick table" is Nick Slade's description of the play being seen on his table. It includes the ultra-aggressive UK player Ben Grundy, and an assortment of characters getting involved in pots.

A relatively straightforward one involved experienced German player Benjamin Kang (2nd in the European Poker Masters last October), who raised up to 3,000 on a flop of {7-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}. Folded around to Polish player Piotr Lopusiewicz, the Pole re-raised all-in with around 8k. Into the tank went Mr Kang for an eternity, constantly questioning the Pole's motives. After six minutes Ben Grundy reminded Kang that he had taken six minutes! Finally, after seven minutes, he folded imploring the victor to show his cards. He did, {10-Hearts}{10-Spades}, to which Kang shot up from his chair, Phil Hellmuth style, exclaiming in clear English swear words!

Not long after, a board showing 789JK had three players betting, cautiously, with 99, 10 10 and JJ. Grundy's tens prevailed.

A sick table indeed. To make things worse for Slade, our next visit saw his very decent 22k stack decimated. Benjamin Kang seems to be the player to have benefitted.

Tags: Ben GrundyBenjamin KangNick SladePiotr Lopusiewicz

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