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Title: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 22, 2010, 12:56:57 PM Day1a was yesterday, some Brits expected in Day1b today
Apparently the venue is overlooked by Mount Zwölferkogel. Just so you know. EPT Snowfest: End of day 1A chips Player Country Status ChipCount David Winterberger Germany 290200 Berhard Perner Austria 257500 Julien Brecard France PokerStars sponsored player 238100 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars player 193600 Mike Gorodinsky USA PokerStars qualifier 160700 Janko Medja Slovenia PokerStars player 158900 Christian Oppersklaski Germany 146800 Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 134300 Alex Kravchenko Russia 129600 Alexander Pozdnyakov Russia 129500 Roland Reckeweg Germany 128900 Dogan Gunor Germany 127000 Vadim Markushevski Belarus Team PokerStars Pro 125200 Elias Brussianos USA 121100 Alex Kuzmin Russia 119600 Robert Kreutzer Austria PokerStars qualifier 117900 Csaba Toth Hungary PokerStars qualifier 114000 Max Lykov Russia PokerStars player 111100 Aleh Plauski Belarus PokerStars qualifier 106100 Rafal Arendt Poland 102900 Konstantinos Alexiou Greece 101400 Robert Haigh Germany 97400 Marcel Burger Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 97000 Allan Andersen Denmark 96900 Christian Togsverd Denmark PokerStars player 93500 Xavier Detournel France 91200 Marco Fantini Italy 89400 Jonathan Villeneuve Canada PokerStars player 89100 Alekberovas Anaras Lithuania PokerStars qualifier 88700 Fedor Los Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 87000 Yorane Kerignard France PokerStars qualifier 86900 Arnaud Mattern France Team PokerStars Pro 85200 Katja Rooch Germany PokerStars qualifier 82900 Nicolo Caramatti Italy 82500 Robert Woodcock UK PokerStars player 81800 Sebastien Bidinger France PokerStars qualifier 80500 Ara Melikian USA PokerStars qualifier 80300 Gilles Speller Luxembourg PokerStars qualifier 79700 Petar Kochev Germany 75900 Simon Meyer Germany PokerStars player 75700 Marius Condrea Romania 75400 Marko Mikovic Serbia 73400 John Lundqvist Finland 73200 Jose Besalduch Spain PokerStars player 72100 Paul Berende Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 70600 Halldor Sverrisson Iceland PokerStars qualifier 67100 Lee Gaines USA 66600 Christian Zuber Germany 66400 Johann Pisna Austria 66100 Lukas Baumann Austria PokerStars qualifier 66000 Daniel Negreanu Canada Team PokerStars Pro 65700 Jerzy Slaby UK PokerStars player 65100 Emanoil Savin Romania 64900 Casper Toft Denmark PokerStars player 64100 Claudio Piceci Switzerland 63400 Thomas Christensen Sweden PokerStars qualifier 63000 Andrew Pantling Canada PokerStars qualifier 61900 Lauri Pesonen Malta PokerStars qualifier 61500 Janar Kiivramees Estonia PokerStars player 60800 Jens Schmieg Germany PokerStars player 60400 Marijan Tomaskovic Croatia PokerStars qualifier 59400 Frederik Andersson Sweden 58700 Tobias Kuder Germany 58600 Cyril Naim France 58400 Alain Medesan Romania 57200 Joni Jouhkimainen Finland PokerStars qualifier 57100 Adrien Alibert France PokerStars qualifier 56400 Tommy Dender Denmark 54400 Luis Hubert Germany 53300 Viktor Jensen Sweden PokerStars player 50700 Luke Marsh UK PokerStars qualifier 50400 Artur Simonyan Russia 50000 Eelke Arjaans Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 49600 Yury Kerzhapkin Russia PokerStars qualifier 49600 Nils Berggren Sweden PokerStars player 48300 Pieter De Vries Netherlands 47600 Jesper Hougaard Denmark PokerStars player 47100 Jancar Lumir Germany PokerStars qualifier 47000 Casey Kastle Slovenia PokerStars player 45300 Lex Ruben Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 42400 Giovanni Bigoni Italy 41200 Michael Ginzburg Israel 41100 Dominik Grafl Austria 40900 Simmo Kielberg Estonia Winner of Baltics Delfi Series 40500 Jacques Vincent Canada PokerStars qualifier 39300 Johann Fest Germany 38700 Atanas Gueorguiev Bulgaria 38100 Ralf Niklas Asplund Sweden 37300 Klemens Roiter Austria PokerStars qualifier 37000 Zachary Hall USA PokerStars player 36900 Malte Strothmann Germany PokerStars player 36600 Dara O'Kearney Ireland PokerStars qualifier 36100 Nadzeya Hundoryna Belarus PokerStars qualifier 35700 Andrey Zaichenko Russia PokerStars player 34600 Josip Corluka Croatia 33400 Dennis Waterman USA PokerStars qualifier 31100 Tobias Wagner Germany 30500 Kristoffer Thorsson Sweden PokerStars player 29600 Matthias Kurtz Germany PokerStars player 29500 Floris Morang Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 29100 Vladislav Shuravin Russia PokerStars player 27300 Andrey Mitlyansky Russia 27100 Johaness Jung Germany 25500 Tomas Brdaric Germany 25400 Daniel Reijmer Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 25300 Matthias De Meulder Belgium Team PokerStars Pro 23600 Mauro Mancin Italy PokerStars qualifier 23300 Igor Salomasov Russia 21700 Max Pescatori Italy 21400 Angel Machuca Munoz Spain PokerStars qualifier 20700 Henri Kasper Estonia PokerStars player 20700 Ricardo Milani Brazil PokerStars qualifier 19800 Hans Erlandsson Sweden PokerStars player 19100 Simon Ehne Sweden PokerStars qualifier 18400 Wim Bos Netherlands PokerStars player 18300 Jose Carlos Da Silva France Winner Poker Mission Caraibes 18000 Yury Bulatovskiy Russia 17700 Marko Weigand Germany PokerStars qualifier 16300 Richard Larsen Norway PokerStars qualifier 13900 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 22, 2010, 01:00:14 PM of course these counts are from www.pokerstarsblog.com where you can follow updates of the action
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: ripple11 on March 22, 2010, 01:53:53 PM Looking forward to the video of the snowmobile raid. :D Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: Dry em on March 22, 2010, 04:20:20 PM good luck to JP Kelly, I back him online...
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 23, 2010, 10:15:30 AM Day1b chips
Koen Berendsen Netherlands PokerStars player 162700 Ivo Donev Austria 160000 Luca Cainelli Italy 157600 Nasr El Nasr Germany PokerStars qualifier 140100 Lex Veldhuis Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 134300 Eric Friedmann Switzerland 133800 Sven Mol Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 124600 Alessandro Lusso Italy 119000 Alfio Battisti Italy PokerStars player 118000 Lam Van Trinh UK PokerStars qualifier 117900 Zoltan Szabo Hungary 117700 Alexander Debus Germany 113000 Williiam Martin UK 111000 Mihai Manole Romania 107500 Felipe Montenegro Costa Rica 107100 Rino Mathis Switzerland Team PokerStars Pro 104900 Dan Ionut Hila Romania 104200 Florian Bussman Germany 103600 Carmelo Vasta Italy 102000 Jonathan Schroer USA PokerStars qualifier 101400 Marko Neumann Germany PokerStars qualifier 100100 Joe Ebanks USA PokerStars qualifier 99800 Lilly Becker Netherlands 99800 Jean Paul Pasqualini France 96700 Luca Pagano Italy Team PokerStars Pro 96600 Kent Lundmark Sweden PokerStars qualifier 95500 Thomas Frandsen Denmark 94900 Frank Dieter Austria 93800 Filip Maksimovic Serbia 92500 Johannes Holstege Germany PokerStars player 88800 Jeffrey Hakim Canada PokerStars qualifier 88100 Paul Valkenburg Netherlands 84400 Anastas Kochov Bulgaria 81500 Robert Binelli Italy 81100 Florian Dohnert Germany 79700 Dan Murariu Romania PokerStars qualifier 77500 Emanuele Marzano Italy 77400 Giorgio Miconi Italy 76400 Peter Pallet Germany 76400 Vojislav Petrov France 75100 Leo Spielmann Austria 74100 Giuseppe Pantaleo Germany PokerStars player 73900 Christophe Gross Germany PokerStars player 73300 Jim Collopy USA PokerStars player 72400 Stacy Dwayne UK 71600 Gerolamo Carella Italy 70300 Tome Moreira Portugal 70000 Hubertus Verdonschot Netherlands 68500 Nicolo Calia Italy 68200 Marcel Koller Switzerland 67700 Michael Seban France 66900 Besim Hot Czech Republic 66000 Udo Erlei Germany 64400 Jorn Walthaus Netherlands PokerStars player 64300 Drew Munson USA PokerStars qualifier 64000 Allan Baekke Denmark PokerStars player 62400 Alexander Dovzhenko Russia 62200 Dmitry Vitkind Russia PokerStars player 62200 Ovidiu Balaj Romania 61200 Salim Ghozali Algeria 60000 Claudio Rinaldi Italy 58200 Georg Geissler Germany 56900 Johannes Steindl Germany Team PokerStars Pro 56800 Cedric Annen Switzerland 56100 Michele Colaci Italy 55400 Gianni Giaroni Italy PokerStars player 54100 Daniele Amatruda Italy 53500 Friedrich Hochfilzer Austria 53200 Josef Kolarits Austria 52400 Benno Jobst Germany 51900 Olivier Delanne Switzerland 51300 Evgeniy Zaytsev Russia 50300 Ville Salmi Finland 50000 Marcel Buissink Netherlands 48600 Timo Pfuetzenreuter Germany 48300 Niclas Adolfsson Sweden 47900 Florian Langmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 47600 Alexander Mette Germany 47200 Marine Labernardie France 46600 Carlo Savinelli Italy 43800 Jochum Weenink Netherlands PokerStars player 43000 Mark Bech Denmark 42900 Toni Ojala Finland 42900 Mark Griffiths Switzerland PokerStars player 42700 Anders Jensen Denmark 42300 Gunter Fortkord Germany 41800 Dennis Frankenberger Germany PokerStars player 41100 Manfred Kastl Germany 40300 Aaron Lerner USA 39900 Alberto Valenti Italy 39800 Daniel Van Kalkeren Netherlands 39600 Marco Adams Netherlands 39500 Erik Van Leer Netherlands PokerStars player 39400 Willibald Url Austria 39400 Andreas Krause Germany 39000 Markus Golser Austria 38900 Lukas Sasky Switzerland 38500 Thorsten Waschke Austria 37900 Gianantonio Berton Italy 37500 Stefano Moresco Italy 37300 Thomas Holm Liechtenstein PokerStars qualifier 37100 Mario Puccini Germany PokerStars qualifier 37000 Jasper Wetemans Netherlands PokerStars player 36800 Harry Casagrande Austria 34000 Luis Medina Portugal Team PokerStars Pro 34000 Maurizio Sepede Italy 33800 Johan Brolenius Sweden 33700 Alexia Portal France 33400 Phillipp Mohr Germany 33200 Dario Zelic Croatia 33100 Halil Karaca Turkey 32300 Bryan Paris USA PokerStars qualifier 31900 Stefan Huber Switzerland PokerStars player 31700 Andrea Dato Italy 31500 Martin Provaznik Czech Republic 31000 Stefan Fuchs Austria PokerStars player 30300 Cecil Motschmann Germany 30000 Bertrand Husiaux France 28000 Christoph Schwabl Austria PokerStars player 27000 Richard Toth Hungary Team PokerStars Pro 25600 Heiko Baek Germany 25500 Guillaume De La Gorce France 25100 Anestis Karasavvidis Austria 25000 Slobodan Ruzicic Czech Republic 24900 Nicolas Duffort France 24100 Hanh Tran Austria 23600 Sebastian Johansson Sweden 22200 Russell Carson Canada PokerStars qualifier 21400 Nacho Barbero Argentina Team PokerStars Pro 20900 Samuel Miller USA PokerStars qualifier 20900 Michael Guardia Switzerland 20600 Max Lemanski Germany 19600 Jonathan Plens Canada PokerStars qualifier 18200 Steffen Skeel Hansen Denmark 16800 Peter Jesko Slovakia 16400 Hermann Pascha Austria PokerStars sponsored player 16000 Siegfried Dold Germany 14500 Claude Marbleu France PokerStars player 13800 Robert Herzog Austria 12100 Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 7200 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 23, 2010, 10:15:58 AM There were 546 entries over two days, each paying €3,500 a pop. After deductions, that created a prize pool of €1,853,680.
Eighty players will be paid and the winner with get 445,000 snowballs. Or euros, whichever they prefer. Full payout structure for EPT Snowfest: 1 - €445,000 2 - €296,000 3 - €166,000 4 - €111,000 5 - €88,000 6 - €65,000 7 - €46,000 8 - €37,000 9-10 - €28,000 11-12 - €20,400 13-14 - €15,800 15-16 - €13,000 17-24 - €10,200 25-32 - €8,400 33-40 - €7,400 41-48 - €6,700 49-56 - €6,300 57-64 - €5,900 65-72 - €5,500 73-80 - €5,260 Players: 546 (Day 1a: 270; Day 1b: 276) Buy in: €3,500 Total prize pool: €1,853,680 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 23, 2010, 10:16:48 AM So, currently
Level 9, 500-1,000 (ante 100) Entries 546, 259 remain and at the head of affairs.... Player Country Status Chip Count David Wintersberger Germany 290200 Bernhard Perner Austria 257500 Julien Brecard France PokerStars sponsored player 238100 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars player 193600 Koen Berendsen Netherlands PokerStars player 162700 Mike Gorodinsky USA PokerStars qualifier 160700 Ivo Donev Austria 160000 Janko Medja Slovenia PokerStars player 158900 Luca Cainelli Italy 157600 Christian Oppersklaski Germany 146800 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 23, 2010, 10:36:37 AM Team PokerStars Pros thriving at EPT Snowfest
After two days of top-notch poker high up in the Austrian Alps, PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest goes into Day 2 with a total of 259 players still in the running for the €445,000 first prize. A total of 140 players made it through Day 1b and will be joining the 119 players who survived Day 1a. The €3,750 tournament is taking place March 21-16 at the luxurious Alpine Palace Hotel in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, one of Austria’s premier ski resorts. The EPT’s first ever visit to the Alps proved popular with players – 546 turned up, from 48 countries, creating a total prize pool of €1,853,680. Among those competing were 27 members of Team PokerStars Pro and 138 players who won their seats online. The leading Team PokerStars Pro of Day 1b was Dutch player Lex Veldhuis. He survived with 134,300. His fellow team mates Rino Mathis, Luca Pagano, Johannes Steindl, Florian Langmann, Luis Medina, Richard Toth and Nacho Barbero also made it through. Tennis legend Boris Becker, a member of Team PokerStars SportStar, was knocked out towards the end of the day by Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano but his wife Lilly is still in with 99,800. Still up among the overall chip leaders is the PokerStars-sponsored French player Julien Brecard who celebrated his birthday on Sunday by amassing 238,100 in chips. American Jim Collopy turned 21 the next day and marked the occasion with a 72,400 chip stack. The overall chip leader remains German player David Wintersberger with 290,200. For full reports on EPT Snowfest, please see the PokerStars blog and video blogs on PokerStars.tv. EPTLive will be covering the final two days of the tournament with expert commentary in both German and English. Mad Harper EPT Media Coordinator Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: Royal Flush on March 23, 2010, 01:35:57 PM Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: GreekStein on March 23, 2010, 01:37:42 PM good luck to Peter Eastgate, I back him online... FYL FOP Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: Mitch on March 23, 2010, 05:08:05 PM Day1b chips Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 7200 Interesting guy, saw this pic of him on the updates, seems to be a familiar face, wonder if he has an ulterior motive for being there? Job description down as 'bric a brac salesman'. Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: titaniumbean on March 23, 2010, 05:43:09 PM Day1b chips Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 7200 Interesting guy, saw this pic of him on the updates, seems to be a familiar face, wonder if he has an ulterior motive for being there? Job description down as 'bric a brac salesman'. rotflmfao ;tightend; Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 23, 2010, 06:09:47 PM Well Mitch, that's post of the week sorted!
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: marcin123 on March 23, 2010, 09:20:24 PM gl to dwayne stacey in this... he used to be a reg in leeds...
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 24, 2010, 03:02:41 AM Day 2 is over
Level 15, 2,000-4,000 (ante 400) Entries 546, 86 remain Player Country Status Chip Count Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 741000 Richard Toth Hungary Team PokerStars Pro 584500 Max Lykov Russia PokerStars player 575000 Jim Collopy USA PokerStars player 458500 Alexander Debus Germany 428500 Marco Adams Netherlands 425000 Vladislav Shuravin Russia PokerStars player 418500 Bernhard Perner Austria 402000 Fedor Los Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 374000 Mark Bech Denmark 370500 Florian Dohnert Germany 328000 Alain Medesan Romania 320000 Allan Baekke Denmark PokerStars player 310000 Lukas Sasky Switzerland 308000 Jeffrey Hakim Canada PokerStars qualifier 305000 Casper Toft Denmark PokerStars player 300500 Marcel Burger Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 293500 Russell Carson Canada PokerStars qualifier 288000 Johannes Holstege Germany PokerStars player 285500 Nasr El Nasr Germany PokerStars qualifier 280000 Koen Berendsen Netherlands PokerStars player 267500 Paul Valkenburg Netherlands 267500 Lee Gaines USA 261500 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars player 260000 Marco Fantini Italy 257000 Vadim Markushevski Belarus Team PokerStars Pro 235000 Julien Brecard France PokerStars sponsored player 228000 Sven Mol Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 227500 Christian Togsverd Denmark PokerStars player 211000 Lukas Baumann Austria PokerStars qualifier 203500 Christophe De Meulder Belgium Team PokerStars Pro 202000 Johannes Steindl Germany Team PokerStars Pro 200500 Aaron Lerner USA 191500 Lam Van Trinh UK PokerStars qualifier 189500 Jesper Hougaard Denmark PokerStars player 187500 Zachary Hall USA PokerStars player 182000 Josip Corluka Croatia 181000 David Wintersberger Germany 176500 Bertrand Husiaux France 172000 Ivo Donev Austria 168000 Samuel Miller USA PokerStars qualifier 163500 Alfio Battisti Italy PokerStars player 162500 Dan Murariu Romania PokerStars qualifier 161500 Dmitry Vitkind Russia PokerStars player 160500 Marcel Koller Switzerland 151000 Carmelo Vasta Italy 148000 Michele Colaci Italy 143500 Giovanni Bigoni Italy 138000 Leo Spielmann Austria 138000 Nicolo Caramatti Italy 136500 Hubertus Verdonschot Netherlands 135500 Alex Kravchenko Russia Team PokerStars Pro 131500 Konstantinos Alexiou Greece 131500 Robert Haigh Germany 131000 Evgeniy Zaytsev Russia 124500 Florian Bussman Germany 122500 Jonathan Schroer USA PokerStars qualifier 118000 Lex Veldhuis Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 111000 Sebastien Bidinger France PokerStars qualifier 107500 Adrien Alibert France PokerStars qualifier 105000 Felipe Montenegro Costa Rica 101000 Marcel Buissink Netherlands 100500 Dan Ionut Hila Romania 96000 Ara Melikian USA PokerStars qualifier 95500 Jochum Weenink Netherlands PokerStars player 95000 Bryan Paris USA PokerStars qualifier 86500 Robert Kreutzer Austria PokerStars qualifier 85000 Jean Paul Pasqualini France 81000 ? 78300 Simon Ehne Sweden PokerStars qualifier 77000 Dennis Frankenberger Germany PokerStars player 73500 Maurizio Sepede Italy 67500 Jose Besalduch Spain PokerStars player 66500 Luis Medina Portugal Team PokerStars Pro 66000 Peter Pallet Germany 64500 Nils Berggren Sweden PokerStars player 64000 Nicolo Calia Italy 62300 Christian Oppersklaski Germany 60500 Robert Binelli Italy 59000 Daniel Van Kalkeren Netherlands 58000 Johann Fest Germany 55000 Nadzeya Hundoryna Belarus PokerStars qualifier 52500 Dennis Waterman USA PokerStars qualifier 43500 Angel Machuca Spain PokerStars qualifier 37500 Luca Cainelli Italy 11200 Christian Zuber Germany 9000 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 24, 2010, 03:02:59 AM good luck later to
? 78300 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: Dewi_cool on March 24, 2010, 10:06:49 AM It's ANON from DTD
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: outragous76 on March 24, 2010, 10:43:43 AM UK players obv love their winter sports too much eh
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 25, 2010, 09:11:27 AM Day 3 is over
Level 20, 6,000-12,000 (ante 1,000) Entries 546, 24 remain Player Country Status Chip Count Allan Baekke Denmark PokerStars player 2687000 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars player 1361000 Max Lykov Russia PokerStars player 1205000 Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 1001000 Alexander Debus Germany 908000 Huub Verdonschot Netherlands 769000 Jim Collopy USA PokerStars player 758000 Marcel Koller Switzerland 752000 Jonathan Schroer USA PokerStars qualifier 685000 Johannes Holstege Germany PokerStars player 683000 Lukas Baumann Austria PokerStars qualifier 615000 Florian Dohnert Germany 602000 Lee Gaines USA 594000 Nasr El Nasr Germany PokerStars qualifier 546000 Luca Cainelli Italy 542000 Russell Carson Canada PokerStars qualifier 495000 Robert Haigh Germany 435000 Richard Toth Hungary Team PokerStars Pro 414000 Cyril Naim France 380000 Daniel Van Kalkeren Netherlands 281000 Bernhard Perner Austria 279000 Bertrand Husiaux France 235000 David Wintersberger Germany 229000 Alain Medesan Romania 166000 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: GreekStein on March 25, 2010, 10:24:50 AM Reckon Lykov will ship this
Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 26, 2010, 10:32:11 AM Final table set
Day 4 is over - final table set Level 24, 15,000-30,000 (ante 3,000) Entries 546, 8 remain Player Country Status Chip Count Allan Baekke Denmark PokerStars player 4688000 Russell Carson Canada PokerStars qualifier 3463000 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars player 3096000 Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 2034000 Jonathan Schroer USA PokerStars qualifier 972000 Alain Medesan Romania 919000 Lukas Baumann Austria PokerStars qualifier 728000 Daniel Van Kalkeren Netherlands 396000 Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 26, 2010, 01:01:28 PM POKERSTARS.NET EPT SNOWFEST - final table player profiles
Seat 1: Russell "rdcrsn" Carson, 27, Powell River, British Columbia, Canada - PokerStars qualifier – 3,463,000 chips Carson may not be a familiar face to regular EPT followers, but is a formidable and well-respected online opponent known by his moniker "rdcrsn'. The Canadian pro has consistently made his living playing poker, his only other occupation was as a student prior to stepping up to the felt. His biggest cash was for $150,000 in an online tournament. He is an avid sports fan particularly soccer. Seat 2: Alain Medesan, 33, from Baia Mare, Romania – 919,000 Medesan has been a fulltime poker professional since December 2006. ‘I decided then that I would play for everything. I would play with all my heart,’ he says. It’s a sentiment that is backed up by his supporters who have been ringside throughout Day 4. Seven of them helped stake Medesan into the event which the 33-year old admits would have been too expensive for him otherwise. Their loyalty has already been repaid several times over and we may now get our first ever Romanian champion. Medesan jokes that he is being “coached” by his friend and fellow Romanian Mihai Manole who came fourth at EPT Barcelona. His biggest live result before EPT Snowfest was €17,025 for a second place finish in a €700 tournament in Slovenia, but he’s no slouch online where his biggest score has been a $85,000 3rd place finish in a $100 rebuy event. Seat 3: Jonathan Schroer, 46, near Raleigh, North Carolina, USA – PokerStars Frequent Player Points qualifier – 972,000 chips Jonathan Schroer won his seat to EPT Snowfest in a Frequent Player Points satellite on PokerStars – which means his first ever trip to Europe has cost him nothing at all. Schroer is one of the few amateurs in the Snowfest final; by day he is the head of a Montessori School in North Carolina. Schroer is an international master at chess and is a poker veteran having been playing online for nearly ten years. He normally plays limit cash games, and also satellite tournaments. Seat 4: Johannes Strassmann, 25, Berlin - Team PokerStars Pro - 2,034,000 chips Originally from Bonn and now living in Berlin, Strassmann is a poker pro who – like ElkY and many other poker pros – has switched from the strategy game Starcraft. He made an initial deposit online of $5 and has never looked back. He now has one of the best EPT records of all time, currently lying sixth in the EPT Tournament Leader Board. He has eight EPT cashes (including two finals) and also bubbled two final tables. His best result was €152,000 for sixth place in Dortmund two years ago; his most recent was 23rd place in Berlin two weeks ago. Overall he has made more than $750,000 at EPTs. Johannes and Austrian pro Markus Golser are soon launching a German poker coaching site. He said: “I can’t imagine that I’ll be playing professional poker when I’m 30 years old, so I think it’s a good time to start a business.” Seat 5: Lukas Baumann, 24, Austria – PokerStars Frequent Player Point Qualifier - 728,000 chips Baumann is the last remaining Austrian in the tournament and hails from Leoben in Styria, three hours’ drive from Hinterglemm. He is currently about half way through a materials engineering course at university. Like Schroer, Baumann won his seat in a Frequent Player Point tournament on PokerStars so his seat at EPT Snowfest has cost him nothing. He is thrilled and amazed to have made the final table, surrounded by pros, and merrily puts it all down to luck. However he does have results – he came fourth in a $50,000 guaranteed tourney on PokerStars for $4,000 and is also the current official Styrian University poker champion, a title he’s held since December. Seat 6: Brent Wheeler, 24, from Chicago, Illinois – PokerStars player - 3,096,000 chips Wheeler is a full time poker pro who mainly plays online. He says the only job he has ever had other than playing poker was being a golf caddy. Wheeler says his “favourite” live result was coming fourth for € 57,000 in the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour event in San Remo last month. A huge Chicago Bulls Fan, he also came 86th at EPT Berlin two weeks ago for €12,000 and had a deep run at the PCA in January, coming 39th for $35,000. Seat 7: Allan “Sifosis” Baekke, 27, Denmark – PokerStars player - 4,688,000 chips PokerStars SuperNova Allan Baekke is a well-known internet pro who has made his name playing the biggest buy-in - $5,000 - heads-up sit and gos on PokerStars. He competes in the major Sunday tournaments as well but his biggest hit to date was second place in the $25,000 PokerStars WCOOP High Roller Heads-Up event last September. He has been chasing an EPT title for quite a while, having competed in 15 events. He has cashed twice - 48th place in Budapest last season and 28th at EPT4 Copenhagen. However in Berlin two weeks ago, Baekke came second in the €2,000 side event – his best live result before reaching this Snowfest final table. For last season’s Copenhagen event, Baekke joined forces with PokerStars to write strategy tips for the leading newspaper Ekstrabladet on how to win EPT seats via steps satellites. He is being supported in Hinterglemm by his girlfriend Kirstine. Seat 8: Daniel Van Kalkeren, 25, from Hengelo, Holland - 396,000 chips Van Kalkeren has been a full-time professional poker player for the last two years but is here in Austria playing his first ever EPT. He took up poker while studying IT and communications at university. He plays online – invariably No Limit Hold’em short-handed cash games at $2/$4 and $3/$6 stakes. His best live result was reaching the final of a tournament in Budapest last year where he cashed for more than 18,000. Daniel is being supported from home by his girlfriend of eight years – as well as his new dog Tommy. Daniel and his friend Huub Verdonschot, who also made the final nine, both recently got new dogs and were teasing their friends who have bust that this is why they made the final. Title: Re: EPT Snowfest thread Post by: TightEnd on March 27, 2010, 11:02:52 AM 1 - Allan Baekke, Denmark, PokerStars player, €445,000
2 - Russell Carson, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, €296,000 3 - Johannes Strassmann, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €166,000 4 - Alain Medesan, Romania, €111,000 5 - Brent Wheeler, USA, €88,000 6 - Jonathan Schroer, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €65,000 7 - Lukas Baumann, Austria, PokerStars qualifier, €46,000 8 - Daniel Van Kalkeren, Holland, €37,000 |