2009 PokerNews Cup Alpine

Event 6 - €1,500 PNC Alpine Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info

2009 PokerNews Cup Alpine

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
€46,474
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,375
Prize Pool
€172,054
Entries
129
Level Info
Level
18
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
3,000

Event 6 - €1,500 PNC Alpine Main Event

Day 1 Completed

Overnight Chip Counts and Day 2 Table Draw

Goodnight!
Goodnight!
**Note: Players listed in bold are the chip leaders at their respective tables:

Seat 1: Johan Percivall - 85,500
Seat 2: Colin Fortey - 19,300
Seat 3: Christian Fischbacher - 66,800
Seat 5: Mikael Johansson - 63,400
Seat 6: Daniel Perfeito - 60,600
Seat 7: Fedor Los - 35,000
Seat 8: Otto Göschl - 24,600
Seat 9: Christoph Berti - 49,000

Seat 1: Marcel Luske - 102,800
Seat 2: Charly Le Guillou - 14,500
Seat 3: Dennis Uhrenholt - 21,100
Seat 4: Franciscus Dekkers - 101,500
Seat 5: Anders Willemoes Larsen - 24,400
Seat 6: Farhad Kia - 63,700
Seat 7: Johan Brolenius - 61,100
Seat 8: Allan Laursen - 10,000
Seat 9: Jasper Wetemans - 42,900

Seat 1: Simon Borg - 32,300
Seat 2: Joseph Buhmann - 67,600
Seat 3: Stephan Kernig - 42,500
Seat 4: Kemal Orhan - 23,100
Seat 6: Vladislav Bakalov - 99,600
Seat 7: Nicholas van der Marel - 82,500
Seat 8: Jörg Peisert - 72,400
Seat 9: Salvatore Cundari - 32,900

Seat 1: Nik Lackovic - 68,800
Seat 2: Martin Führer - 63,000
Seat 3: Dainius Dirzauskas - 26,200
Seat 4: Jan Hlobil - 60,600
Seat 5: Runnar Lindepuu - 93,400
Seat 7: Mark Vos - 213,200
Seat 8: Marc Naalden - 50,400
Seat 9: Peter Linkhorst - 63,100

Tags: Mark Vos

Day One Completed

Chip leader, with beer
Chip leader, with beer
Thus Day One of the PNC Main Event comes to a close.

129 players have been whittled down to a mere 33 in just eight hours of play, and it looks as though it might be a short day tomorrow. Mark Vos currently leads by an astounding 2-to-1 ratio over anyone else, while Marcel Luske and Franciscus Dekkers take second and third places respectively in the counts for the time being. Notable players who fell by the wayside today and will presumably be spending tomorrow skiing instead include Tony G, Erich Kollmann, Markus Golser, David Saab, Noah Boeken and, on the very last hand of the night, John Duthie.

Join us tomorrow from 2pm GMT+1 when we will be playing down to our final table.

Liv and Let Die

Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree
Wow, when they called last five hands, no one could have been aware of the volcanic eruption that was bubbling underneath the surface of Table 1, Liv Boeree jumping aboard a roller coaster of emotions as she doubled up an opponent, trebled through, and then got knocked out in the space of just three hands. Brace yourselves, this is going to be an epic to challenge Lord of the Rings...

Emotion #1 - Severe Disgruntlement

I joined the action with a stoic Boeree frozen before a bet of 15,000 and a {2-Spades}{4-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} flop, the rest of the table gradually becoming restless as Vladislav Bakalov continued to dwell. Eventually, John Duthie called the clock, and a minute warning was given.

Just as I was about to join in with the countdown, the word "Ten" was enough to trigger Bakalov to announce "All in," a nonchalant wave of the hand signaling the move.

The previously statuesque Boeree broke from her poker face, lifted her shades and asked with a sigh, "How much?" 23,300 was the answer.

"I said I'm not coming back with a small stack," declared Boeree as she made the call, turning over {A-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}. The news wasn't good though, as her foe revealed {J-Clubs}{J-Spades}, an overpair which proceeded to hold up on the {3-Spades} turn and {2-Diamonds} river.

Emotion #2 - Bittersweet Sense of Victory

On the very next hand, Boeree pushed her remaining 10,000 across the line with {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}, but found herself in a spot of bother against Franciscus Dekkers' {K-Clubs}{K-Hearts} and the {10-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} of Stefan Duxner.

A {3-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{4-Spades}{6-Spades} board later and Duxner had been eliminated, but Boeree had trebled through. "Grr!" she growled. "I wanted to go out, I'm meant to be flying tomorrow morning."

Emotion #3 - Devastation

Again, Liv Boeree was all in, this time with a hand stronger than anyone would have imagined -- {A-?}{K-?}. A limper was a non-believer though, and despite saying, "I should probably fold here," called with {A-?}{6-?}, perhaps thinking Boeree would be pushing with any two cards.

However, poker is a twisted game, and after the {4-?}{4-?}{5-?}{6-?}{2-?} board, Boeree finally got her wish, although I feel at this point she would have been quite content to come back with a stack of 50,000 plus.

Tags: Liv Boeree

Bedtime

Play has now officially finished for the night, but stay tuned for a few bits of last-minute action and the official chip counts.

Uhrenholt Survives, Laursen Sort of Survives

Allan Laursen moved all in from the button for 14,000, and in the big blind Dennis Uhrenholt called all in.

Uhrenholt: {A-Hearts} {8-Spades}
Laursen: {A-Spades} {J-Hearts}

Board: a two-pair-tastic {A-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} {6-Spades} {8-Hearts} {6-Diamonds}

Uhrenholt was back in the game with 20,000, while Laursen was down to a mere 3,700. He doubled up the next hand though when his {Q-Hearts} {3-Spades} came good against Joseph Buhmann's {A-Clubs} {2-Clubs} on the {9-Hearts} {2-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} board to hang in there by the skin of his teeth.

Luskebox

Says it all
Says it all
Marcel Luske is on fire. Just a few hands after knocking out Marc Jacquetin, he got involved in a raising war with Dennis Uhrenholt, which ended up with Luske all in and Uhrenholt with just 8,000 chips behind.

Uhrenholt: {Q-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds}
Luske: {A-Spades} {Q-Spades}

Board: BANG {A-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {2-Diamonds}

Luske doubles up to 90,000, and Uhrenholt is desperate.

Tags: Dennis UhrenholtMarcel Luske

No Luck for Neufeld

Trevor Neufeld has suffered a massive disaster, going from 70,000 chips to sweet nothing in just two awful hands.

With Jasper Wetemans all in with {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}, it couldn't have looked better for Neufeld -- he was holding pocket aces. But a {4-Hearts} {3-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} board later and a total lack of diamonds in Neufeld's hand meant that Wetemans doubled up and Neufeld was down to 30,000.

The very next hand, he found pocket kings and got his whole stack in against Mark Vos' {A-?} {K-?} -- and bang, out came the ace to send the unfortunate Neufeld to the rail. Smacked in the face by the deck, indeed.