Pokerstars.com EPT Prague: FINAL TABLE

[NoflopsHomer]

Final table time, and no TV cameras mean we start 9-handed today. Pictures to follow.

1   Juha Lauttmaas -- 567,000
2   Kristian Kjondal -- 740,000
3   Gino Alacqua -- 660,000
4   Markus Golser -- 352,000
5   Mikael Norinder -- 1,036,000
6   Nedzib Suman -- 216,000
7   Dagomir Pavlovic -- 759,000
8   Johannes Strassmann -- 245,000
9   Arnaud Mattern -- 980,000

So folks, who is going to win? I'm going to stick with my earlier pick Kristian Kjondal, but I'd be delighted to see Arnaud take it down too.

[julian]

from what i hear arnaud has got all the gears up his sleeve & should be able to exploit his rocky image!

[Gowardo]

Definitely cheering for Arnaud this time, he deserves a big cash me thinks.

Either way, its gonna be a good final table!

[NoflopsHomer]

The setup here in Prague is actually really cool, they've put the final table up right next to a raised seating area but then reserved a couple of front row seats for friends of the finalists, which is a nice touch, there's two rail sections either side for the press and and a second seating area for the public opposite the raised area. All in all, it looks really good, though I think the bloggers are suffering from live feed withdrawal symptoms...

Incidentally, Andrew Feldman has made the final of the €1,000 event (which is also running at the same time as this one), I'll keep my eye on that to see if anything happens there.



From left to right. Johannes Strassman, Nedzib Suman, Mikael Norinder, Markus Golser, Dagomir Pavlovic, Juha Lauttmaas, Arnaud Mattern, Kristian Kjondal and Gino Alacqua.

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 1: Juha Lauttamus -- 567,000



Seat 2: Kristian Kjondal -- 740,000



Seat 3: Gino Alacqua -- 660,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 4: Markus Golser -- 352,000



Seat 5: Mikael Norinder -- 1,036,000



Seat 6: Nedzib Suman -- 216,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Seat 7: Dagomir Pavlovic -- 759,000



Seat 8: Johannes Strassmann -- 245,000



Seat 9: Arnaud Mattern -- 980,000

[julian]

i'm loving gino's look tho...

[Chili]

About 5 hands into the start of the preceedings and we have an exit already.  Firstly Johannes Strassman raised it up 36k but was reraised all in by Nedzib Suman.  He passed saying he had AJ as Suman showed him 55's. 

A couple of hands of later Norinder rasied from the cut off and Strassman pushed for about 200,000.  Norinder made the call and we are shown:

Norinder 
Strassman   



No help for Johannes Strassman and he is out in 9th winning €39,200.

[Gowardo]

i'm loving gino's look tho...

Italian Pride!

(Italian here too ... ;P)

[NoflopsHomer]

Huge hand for Arnaud Mattern as we were putting up the last exit and the potrait shots, fortunately, Nicolas Levi was there to tell me everything.

Kristian Kjondal raised, Mikael Norinder called from the hijack, and Arnaud re-raised from the small blind, Kjondal passed, I think Mikael made a mistake because he put in a load of pink chips, intending, we think to call, but because it was 50% more than Arnaud's re-raise it had to be counted as a min-re-raise of Arnaud's raise. Arnaud moved all-in and Mikael decided to call.

Arnaud:



Mikael:



Board:



Huge cheers erupt from the French Quarter. Arnaud has almost 2 million in chips and former chip leader Mikael is completely crippled.

An uberstacked Arnaud.

[Gowardo]

F*ck yeah.

[julian]

that's some gaff to make...aiyah

[Gowardo]

To be fair though, how hard must it be to go out so fast when you start as chip leader... That's poker for you I guess.

[Chili]

Not suprisingly from what we have seen of Norinder the last few days, it didn't take him long to go all in with the remainder of his once chip lead.  He made the push after a raise to 35,000 from Kristian Kjondal, Kjonadal called the extra 180,000 or so and on their backs:

Kjondal 
Norinder 

The board was  

Norinder leaving the arena:




 Mikael Norinder is out in 8th place winning €63,200.