EPT Warsaw: Final - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Farid limps from the CO/UTG. Conroy passes, Peter makes up and Marius checks.

Flop:



Peter checks, Marius bets 50k, Farid folds. Peter makes it 200k putting Marius all-in. Marius dwells for a while, BA and I have already agreed that he's not able to pass for his last 120k or so with so much already in the pot and sure enough, he is forced to call all-in.

Peter shows . So just the nuts.

Marius shows . He needs a hand...

Turn:



A modicum of hope for the all-in player.

River:




So Marius Torbergsen is OUT in 4th place winning €78,027

[snoopy1239]

Very approx chip counts:

John -- 700k
Farid -- 1.1 mil
Peter -- 1 mil

[NoflopsHomer]

John Conroy is OUT in 3rd place winning €109,238


It's a total cooler I'm afraid.

John raises on the button, Peter re-raises from the small blind. Farid dwells and passes (Eights I'm told). John moves in and Peter calls.

John:



Peter:



Board:



Peter apologises to John profusely for having such a good hand. We are now heads-up and on a 15 minute break, blinds 10k/20k when we get back.

[snoopy1239]

The current chip counts are:

Peter Willers Jespen -- 1,695,000
Farid Meraghni -- 1,495,000

although Lee Jones has a slightly bemused look on his face, perhaps the maths isn't adding up...

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Well, soon, we'll be heading into heads-up action, and, in my opinion, we have two contrasting players. Whilst Farid is laid back, chips sprawled everywhere and seemingly without a care in the world, Peter is upright, shades locked in and seemingly unmovable - as meticulous with his chip stacking as he is with his choice of female companion.

From what I've witnessed, Peter is a very solid player. Yes, he makes moves like many a Scandie, but he seems to have his head screwed on just that little bit tighter, making calculated decisions rather than cavalier and sometime suicidal all-ins. Farid, meanwhile, chooses a different approach - he likes to call, and quite frequently, even limping into many pots. Often I have seen him call pre-flop raises, rather than re-raise, only to outplay his opponent on the Flop. He may appear to be a calling station to some, but he seems to frequently know where his opponent is in the hand, a skill that many of us would love to have in the arsenal.

[snoopy1239]

The players have decided to take their dinner break.

Heads up play will commence in 40 minutes.

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok so the running antes have been dispensed with, so it's just 10k/20k now, and with almost 2.9 million chips, there's a lot play to go. So far Farid has been doing all the running, raising pretty much every pot on the button to 60k. Peter is playing slower and more conservatively, just waiting to pick his spot I think.

Just before the action started I caught with Peter talking amicably to John Conroy, Peter was thinking with hindsight he might have called the initial raise with the Aces, and Farid might then have made a move with Eights, and we could have seen an end to the tournament.

John told Peter, "Just play small pots against him, you do that and you'll win."

[snoopy1239]

Apoligies for the lack of hands reported of late, but I can genuinely say that there have been none to report. Although I shouldn't admit it as a live updater, I have to remain honest and confess to witnessing a real paint job. I just sat down there for circa 30 minutes, watching 35 hands, yet not one single re-raise, pre-flop or post-flop. Quite remarkable.

To give you a brief idea of how slow it is going, here are brief write-ups of 25 consecutive hands at the 10k/20k blind level:

(1) Farid folds his small blind.
(2) Farid raises to 50k, Peter fols 7-3o, Farid shows A-9o.
(3) Cheap 7d-3c-9d Flop, Peter bets, Farid folds.
(4) Peter folds his small blind.
(5) Cheap 8c-6d-7c Flop, Farid bets 30k, Peter calls. 4d Turn, Peter bets, Farid folds.
(6) Peter folds his small blind.
(7) Farid raises to 60k, Peter folds 6-2o.
(8) Peter raises to 60k, Farid calls. 9s-Qh-9c Flop, check check. As Turn, check check. 4c River, Peter bets 100k, Farid folds.
(9) Farid raises to 60k, Peter folds.
(10) Peter folds his small blind.
(11) Cheap 6c Ts Ks Tc 7h board, Peter bets 40k, Farid folds.
(12) Peter folds his small blind.
(13) Farid raises to 50k, Peter folds.
(14) Peter raises to 60k, Farid folds.
(15) Cheap Kh-3c-Ad Flop, Farid bets 20k, Peter calls. 4d Turn, Peter checks, Farid bets 80k, Peter folds.
(16) Peter raises, Farid folds.
(17) Farid folds his small blind, Peter shows K-Jo.
(18) Peter folds his small blind.
(19) Farid folds his small blind, Peter show A-Qs.
(20) Peter folds his small blind.
(21) Cheap 2h-9c-6h-7d-Kd board, Peter wins with T-6o, Farid shows 5-4o.
(22) Peter raises, Farid folds.
(23) Farid raises to 60k, Peter folds.
(24) Peter raises to 60k, Farid folds.
(25) Cheap Jd-6c-9s-Js-7h board, Farid wins with what looked like Q-7o.

[snoopy1239]

Although Farid doubled up with 2 pair (9-2) on a 9-2-K-A board against an Ace, he was involved in a monster pot soon after.

Pre-flop, Peter made it 65k and called a 140k re-raise.

Flop =

Check, check.

Turn =

Farid bet 100k, Peter made it 300k, Farid moved all-in and Peter called.

Farid =

Peter =

Farid was drawing dead, so the River was academic.

This put him down to 170k when, on the next hand...

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... Farid moved all-in pre-flop with only to be called instantly by Peter's .

Board =

Farid Meraghni is OUT and becomes the 2nd place finisher winning €182,063

PETER WILLERS JEPSEN BECOMES THE 2007 EPT POLISH OPEN CHAMPION WINNING €325,633