EPT BADEN - Final Day Live Update - At A Glance

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Guten Tag und Wilkommen!

We're back for the Final Instalment of our coverage of the Pokerstars EPT Baden, where the players will go from 13 to 1.

Play still about 15 minutes away (well, scheduled as such) so we'll go check on the TV table area and pick a good spot for lurking.



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The last two tables:

Eichhardt  Peter  SWE  439,500
Argyrou   Argyris   CYP   392,000
Johnson   Ben   USA   352,000
Minieri   Dario   ITA        339,000
Nguyen   Thang Duc D   308,000
Balla   Andrea   ITA     287,000
Molander  Jonas   SWE   272,500
Biorac   Sasa   D          228,000
Cherednichenko   Rodion   RUS    218,000
Gould   Peter   GBR   190,000
Dodet   Daniel   BEL   167,000
Golser   Markus   AUT   125,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Peter Gould is our 12th place finisher.

Peter Eichhardt raised from the button and Gould dwelt for a second before pushing all-in declaring, "I'm going to gamble with you."

Eichhardt calls.

Gould:

 

Eicchardt:

 

Board:

 

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Another Exit - this time short stacked Markus Golser, who moved in with and found Thang Nguyen ready to call with his
Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

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So, five per table, they'll hopefully merge at nine, and move to the TV area at eight. 

Table 1

Jonas Molander
Andrea Balla
Dario Mineri
Argyris Argyrou
Rodion Cherednichenko

Table 2

Thang Nguyen
Peter Eichhardt
Daniel Dodet
Sasa Biorac
Ben Johnson

More than one all-in, no call while I was loitering up there just now.  Argyris is feeling chatty (again) and when Dario moved on him said, "One day I'll pick up a face card and I'll call you..."

[NoflopsHomer]

Just back from upstairs and Dario and Peter Eichhardt are both raising almost every hand, the latter was stopped once when Daniel Dodet pushed after his utg raise. But he seems to be catching cards at the right time. He just took down a 128k pot from Thang.

Thang limps in the SB, Peter checks.

Board:

 

Thang bets 12k, Peter calls.

Turn:

 

Thang checks, Peter bets 40k, Thang calls.

River:

 

Both players check.

Thang:

 

Peter:

 

[NoflopsHomer]

A veritable flurry of hands for you now.

Firstly Peter Eichhardt bet 70k on a Jack high board only for Ben Johnson to push for only another 70k, Peter felt obliged to call with A-T but Johnson's K-J was good and remainined so.

Next Dario doubled up Argyris with Q-4 against A-9 on a 6-7-8-K-J board.

Then Argyris doubled up Rodion after raising his BB from the SB, the Russian's A-K was good and held against the Cypriot's A-9

[NoflopsHomer]

Argyris Argyrou is our 10th place finisher.


Crippled in the Rodion encounter. His last chips went in with  but he was up against Dario's dominating 

The flop came:

 

Ooooooooohhhhhhhhs and Ahhhhhhhhhhhhs from the crowd.

Turn:

 

Yells and screams from the italian contingent.

River:

 

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There's quite a spectator ring at the moment - it's good that the nine are still playing in the Atrium bit as there's access all round the table, but someone else's head always seems to be in the way of the chip counting... nevertheless, here's my best attempt (in seat order):

Rodion           250,000
Daniel Dodet   210,000
Sasa Biorac     170,000
Peter Eichhardt  330,000
Jonas Molander  348,000
Dario Mineri       525,000
Ben Johnson     490,000
Andrea Balla      265,000
Thang Nguyen  470,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, they've all moved onto the same table upstairs which won't be redrawn when they go to the TV table. Jen has chippy counts for you.

Meanwhile there's not too many flops and a lot of preflop action.

First, Dario raises to 37.5k (blinds are now 8k/16k with a 1500 ante)

Thang re-raises to 125k. Dario dwells before passing  . Thang shows 

Next Jonas raises TUTG to 40k and Ben Johnson re-raises to 150k. Jonas dwells for ages before folding  face up. Ben doesn't show but I'm reliably informed he had Aces.

Finally Peter limps on the button, Jonas folds the small blinds and Dario moves all-in from the big blinds for over 400k. Peter eventually passes.

Elsewhere Bad Girl is in the money in the €2000, she has 180k which is great considering the average is 97k sooo go Bad Girl!!!

[NoflopsHomer]

Daniel Dodet doubles up on the last hand of this level, it was folded round to him one off the cut-off, and he put in a suspicously big raise of 80k, Peter Eichhardt moved all-in from the button. Folded back to Daniel who instantly called.

Daniel:

 

Peter:

 

Board:

 

And Daniel let out a whoop of delight at that river.

Peter is now short and we are on a 10 minute break. Blinds will be 10k/20k with a 2k ante when we return.

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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: 

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There will now follow an intermission of 45 minutes.


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

[NoflopsHomer]

Final Table.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.
 
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.


Thanks to Mad Harper from Pokerstars for these.

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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....."