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EPT Warsaw: The Minieri show

Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008

Stefan Rotach just became the latest player to be Minieri’d, moving all-in after first Christoffer Egemo raised and Minieri re-raised, making it 21,000 more for the Italian to call. Whilst Egemo folded Minieri thought for a while, expressed the...

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EPT Warsaw: Big pots, not necessarily big hands

Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008

Two big pots on adjacent tables, one going all the way to showdown, the other stopping short. The first featured the notably aggressive Roland de Wolfe being handed a spoonful of his own medicine by Michael Muheim, the PokerStars qualifier...

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EPT Warsaw: First of the fallers

Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008

Talking of Dario Minieri he’s responsible for the first elimination, seeing off Josh Gould. Minieir had made a typical stealing move on the hand prior and now raised on the button with Gould moving all-in behind him. The Englishman...

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EPT Warsaw: No such thing as the nuts

Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008

Ouch. Ludovic Lacay has just put a huge dampener on Juan Manuel Pastor's afternoon, moving all in pre-flop in what seemed to be a battle of the blinds and was called by Pastor, who had conveniently woken up with aces....

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EPT Warsaw: Super Dario

Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008

Here we go with the statistics: we’re in level 15 with the blinds at 1,500-3,000 with a running 300 ante and 24 players remain. In terms of the one player lighting up the room yesterday it would have to...

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EPT Warsaw: How much?

Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008

The good news for each and every one of the 24 players returning to Casinos Poland today is that they are all in the money. The first one out will take the zloty equivalent of €7,038 for their trip to...

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World Cup of Poker: U.S. & Canada Declare State/Provincial Finalists

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

The action took place yesterday on computers all over the United States and Canada, as players representing all states and provinces competed for the opportunity to take their World Cup dreams to the next level. It is an unprecedented experience...

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EPT Warsaw: In the money

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

We came to play down to the money. We got there, but the route was less predictable and featured a few more bumps than anyone had imagined. Attention is always on the chip leaders - the players most likely to...

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EPT Warsaw: Red card for Eskilsson

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

"It's probably going to be the ex-football player," whispered my Hungarian colleague Imre Kallo (whose fine work, incidentally, you can read on the Hungarian blog. Warning: consonants). Kallo was referring to Hans Eskilsson, a former international soccer player for Sweden,...

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EPT Warsaw: Staying alive

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

We're one off the bubble and we have been for a good long while. The short stacks continue to double up whenever they're all in, and it doesn't even seem to matter if they have the best hand when the...

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EPT Warsaw: Drama in the closing stages

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Day two is crawling towards the money, with just two players still to go before we reach the money and draw a close to the day. The dial has been turned up on the action though. First Atanas Gueorguiev...

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EPT Warsaw: No one is safe

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Pity the big stacks. Hot on the heels of Antony Lellouche's elimination, Mark Teltscher has now taken the long walk to the rail. Two hands did it: first he had J-J against Juan Manuel Pastor's A-K and an ace flopped....

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EPT Warsaw: Crashed and burned

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Two hands into this tournament Antony Lellouche got his starting stack of 10,000 in the middle with pocket kings. He ran into pocket aces, but hit a king to double up, then catapulted into a dominant chip lead throughout the...

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EPT Warsaw: Another table breaks

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

No let up after the break, a stroganoff-powered blaze into level 12 which has already dispatched the required players to leave us with just five tables. Grzegorz Mikielewicz was part of that squeeze, getting his chips in with Q-2...

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