EPT BADEN - Final Day Live Update - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

We're having to tag-team again because I got caught by security guy again for another €47.50 for a press pass. So Jen and I are swapping the presspass everytime one of us goes upstairs. Mwahahaha, a plan fiendish in all it's intricacies.

Won't be a problem for the final table though, we don't have to go past grumpy security man and we get a live feed from the press room.

And I hear clapping from upstairs which means we have our 9th place finisher....Over to Jen for the scoop.

[hartwith]

That photo is great because of the spectators - I especially like the three on the right (Ramzi in the middle) looking like they've been told to pose as interested audience members, and starey guy in white on the left, who's clearly worrying the shorter guy stage center.

I think that the fact that the dealer looks tidy is perhaps the photo's greatest attribute. 

[Djinn]

In 9th place, winning €31,445 is Andrea Galla.

And it was an outdraw - Button Ben Johnson raised to 60k, and small blind Andrea pushed in for a further 161k.  A think, and then clearly a decision that this was a move, because there followed a call from Ben with his .
Andrea showed .

Flop:    The announcer announced that "Only a Queen or a King can save him now," and the guy on my right in the crowd went, "Or running Jacks."
Turn: 
River: 

[NoflopsHomer]

Here is Andrea Galla.

And so there are going to be no red trousers on the final table.

[Djinn]

There will now follow an intermission of 45 minutes.


P.S. I know only one Jack does just as well.

[thetank]

Aww bless, he looks gutted.

[NoflopsHomer]

There now follows a Public Broadcast Announcement:

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Remember people, conditioner SAVES lives. Let this be a warning to you all...

[NoflopsHomer]

That photo is great because of the spectators - I especially like the three on the right (Ramzi in the middle) looking like they've been told to pose as interested audience members, and starey guy in white on the left, who's clearly worrying the shorter guy stage center.

I think that the fact that the dealer looks tidy is perhaps the photo's greatest attribute. 

I'll be honest and say the dealers and valets are fabulous here, they all speak at least two or three languages each, are incredibly helpful and polite, and are always smiling.   

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, the final table is ready and Jen is ringside getting reports. So here are our contenders...

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 1.  Rodion Cherednichenko (Russia)  238,000 chips
Rodion Cherednichenko, 38, has only been playing poker for a year and has restricted himself to smallish live tournaments in his local casinos in Moscow. Nevertheless, the married father-of-three is used to stiff competition – he’s a former wake board and water-skiing champion, and is also a keen snow boarder and motorbiker as well.  Rodion is a software developer for computer games and also runs a refinery to recycle motor oil.

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 2. Daniel Dodet (Belgium) 452,000 chips
PokerStars qualifier Daniel, 41, is from Liege in French-speaking Belgium. He works in the insurance business and has only been playing poker for a year, but he caught the poker bug big time after finishing in the last 300 players in the WSOP main event (he qualified on PokerStars). Daniel is a regular on the growing Belgian tournament circuit and is planning on playing all remaining events on the EPT calendar.

[Djinn]

Seat 3. Sasa Biorac (Germany) 194,000 chips
Sasa Biorac, 31, from Wiesbaden has been playing poker for 10 years but, until very recently, stuck to live high-limit cash games, especially Pot Limit Omaha.  He combines poker playing with running his own import business … but even if he wins here in Baden, he says he won’t be giving up his day job. “I really have two professions – poker and my business. But to be honest, unless I won every EPT from now on, I wouldn’t make as much as I do from my job.”

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 4. Peter Eichhardt (Sweden) – 91,000 chips
Former card dealer Peter Eichhardt, a pro for 11 years, has cashed in dozens of tournaments across Europe and in Vegas with his biggest prize so far being €77,400 after coming 2nd to Jonas Molander at the Helsinki Freezeout in December. His best EPT result was 7th at Deauville in 2005. A keen practitioner of the Japanese martial art Bujinkan, Peter, 40, lives in Stockholm with wife Lena. She will miss his progress on the final table though – she’s flying home this afternoon to care for the daughter Emma.

[Djinn]

Seat 5. Jonas Molander (Sweden) – 358,000 chips
Molander from Stockholm, Sweden, has only been playing poker since March, 2004. Already, though, he has proved he is one of the best new talents to emerge out of Scandinavia. He plays online at PokerStars, where he qualified for the EPT Baden in a cash satellite tournament. He has also had great success playing live, after beating Peter Eichhardt heads-up the Helsinki Freezeout last December for $110,522, coming 12th in the EPT London last month for $18,830, and 9th in the EPT Dublin last year for $24,013.

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 6. Dario Minieri (Italy) – 652,000 chips
A prolifiic online player with PokerStars, Dario, 22, is no stranger to live tournaments either - finishing 22nd in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo last March for $16,800, and 543rd in this year’s WSOP for $22,266. He plays so much online - often up to nine tournaments at once for seven hours a day - that he gathered enough Frequent Player Points on PokerStars to become the first player to buy a car with them - a Porsche Cayman. He lives in Rome, Italy, where he takes delivery of his shiny free motor in January.



My tip at the start of Day 2 and I'm certainly not going to change that now.