Rolf Woods has joined us in the press room. He has 20,000 chips and is the media hero (one of us).
2007 EPT Warsaw
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2007 EPT Warsaw
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
15,800 PLN
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
3,000
Players Left 1 / 0
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Rolf Woods has joined us in the press room. He has 20,000 chips and is the media hero (one of us).
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.
"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.
Ash Hussain
Noah Boeken
Roy Brindley
Four big names, all 15,800 Zlotys lighter this evening.
The flop came down
. 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.
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
.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
.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
. 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.
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)
