EPT BADEN - Final Day Live Update - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 7.  Ben Johnson (USA) 828,000 chips
PokerStars qualifier Ben, from Brooklyn, New York, was a keen player on the NYC chess scene before he switched his attention to poker full-time two years ago. He prefers the science of cash limit games to tournament poker, but he has a useful tourney record having cashed high in WPT and WSOP events (33rd in 2005). Ben, 29, was 'brow-beaten' into travelling to Baden after his buddy Yakov (AKA 'sacker') qualified in the 'last chance' qualifier for Baden. 'sacker' finished 40th, but Ben could go all the way.

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 9. Thang Duc Nguyen (Germany) – 506,000 chips
Originally from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Thang Duc Nguyen, 42, now lives in Hamburg, Germany. Married with ten-year-old twins, Thang Duc has had some impressive wins including two final tables in last month’s PokerStars.com World Cup of Online Poker, picking up a total of €35,000, not to mention 8th place in the 2004 WPT in Paris where he won €50,990. Yet despite these successes, Thang Duc says he’s “not ready yet” to give up his day job as a chef.

[Djinn]

"Welcome to the Final Table of the Baden EPT...331 players started three days ago....now we are down to just eight..."

The compere is at least ten times louder in the press room than he his in the actual filming area... which is no bad thing.  We're very, very unlikely to miss any crucial action.  Or be able to hear high frequencies when we return to the UK.

[Djinn]

And they're off.  Thang calls a raise from Sasa from the small blind, as does Rodion in the big blind.

First final flop:      Thang and Rodion check to the raiser, who also checks.
Turn:     Check-check- All in from Sasa Biorac - 148,000

River: who can say; they both passed.  A murmur of "suspicious bet" runs round Rolf's end of the press room.  "One heart....."

[Djinn]

Dario announces, "Raise."  Like he was doing most of Day One, although opponent Jonas Molander says he's got other gears and is probably his toughest opponent on the final.

Daniel Dodet re-raises the 31k to 150k - a quick pass.

[Djinn]

Dario calls the all-in bet from Peter Eichhardt preflop:

Dario shows:
Peter shows: 

Flop: 
Turn: 



River:     

So Peter Eichhardt from Sweden goes out fast in 8th place, winning €47,167

Not only does Chris' pick outlast mine, he knocks him out first from the final.  Great.

[NoflopsHomer]

Not only does Chris' pick outlast mine, he knocks him out first from the final.  Great.

Pwned.




Here's the least blurry non-flash of the final table I could muster.

[NoflopsHomer]

Peter stands up for the Slow Walk.

[Djinn]

Jonas Molander raises to 34,000... neighbour Dario immediately comes over the top to 190k.  (Showing those well-folded (in my opinion) queens might have encouraged this sort of behaviour...)

Jonas thinks about the extra 85,000 for a bit, and passes.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jonas raises to 34k, Dario folds, Ben Johnson calls, Thang and Rodion fold.

Jonas bets 47k on the flop. Ben calls

Turn is the , Jonas checks, Ben checks.

The river is a dangerous looking . Jonas checks and Ben bets 80k and Jonas folds.

[Sark79]

Seat 6. Dario Minieri (Italy) – 652,000 chips
, where he takes delivery of his shiny free motor in January.

I wonder how much he has paid pokerstars in rake?  probably more than the value of the car 

[Djinn]

We have another all-in, this time from Rodion on the small blind, in response to Dario's preflop raise.  But Dario gives one up...

I really thought that little story was going somewhere, sorry.

[NoflopsHomer]

Thang raises from the cut-off to 37k and it's passed round to Sasa in the big blind who dwells and then folds and the pair of them having a conversation in German, I think about Thang continually stealing Sasa's BB.

Next hand the two words I've heard the most in the last 3 days, "Dario raises". He's made it 42k from UTG and everyone passes.

[NoflopsHomer]

Daniel raises from the cut-off. Everyone passes. But as Jen says, "because the live feed is so loud, it makes every hand seem really crucial."

[Djinn]

Sasa Biorac raises to 37,000 - all pass.  We think he's got a hand.  It's quite cool being able to shout at the TV like you do at home, with two crucial exceptions - it's live, and you don't get to see what they actually have, and pass judgment.  It's all about the speculation.  Actually, it's not really like watching poker on TV at home at all.

My mind is wandering somewhat.