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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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EPT Warsaw: Dinner break stats

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

As players chow down on the superlative buffet at the Hyatt Regency hotel -- the beef stroganoff was the pick of today's offerings -- the dealers have been counting the chips left behind. The full, official count can be found...

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EPT Warsaw: Down to 45

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri just tangled in a pot against Uffe Holm in the seat to his left. Minieri had bet 3,200 from the button before Holm re-raised to 11,600. Back on Minieri the table waited for his...

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EPT Warsaw: Puro purring

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Those of us with long memories, which have not been bludgeoned to mush by too many EPTs, might remember all the way back to season one of the European Poker Tour, when there was a stop in Vienna, Austria. It's...

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EPT Warsaw: More of the same

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

More bust outs. Robert Kucharski bounced his sunglasses on the table at the moment his day ended. He must have felt confident with his pocket aces when his all-in was called, but he hadn’t counted on the poker gods....

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EPT Warsaw: Slicing through the field

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

The widespread brutality of day two at EPT Warsaw shows no sign of abating. The Team PokerStars Pro Gavin Griffin was recently seen wandering through the hotel lobby, leaving an empty seat around table three. He might now be sharing...

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EPT Warsaw: Back where they started

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

It's back to square one for some. Arnaud Mattern has been maintaining his hopes with a characteristic display of pre-flop betting that by and large was putting off all takers. All but one went his way when a pot...

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EPT Warsaw: No hanging about

Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008

It seems nobody is biding their time today. Already more than 20 players have departed and this spate of all-ins continues at pace. Hungarian PokerStars qualifier Sandor Toth shoved his chips in with Qd-Js hoping for a caller and...

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World Cup of Poker: State & Provincial Finals Decided Today

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Home town pride is the theme. Technically, it would be home state or home province pride, but the idea is the same. People take pride in the part of their country that they are able to represent, and this stage...

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EPT Warsaw: Return to form

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

Yesterday's opener to EPT Warsaw was a quiet affair, a tight-knit friendly game played among a dedicated bunch who seemed reluctant to knock one another out. It was fun to watch and probably fun to play, but there was something...

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APPT Manila: The harder you work, the luckier you get

Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008

You need luck to win a poker tournament, and the talking point among players as they fly to the four corners of the world after the PokerStars.net APPT Manila main event will undoubtedly the luck that carried Van sirens Marcus...

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