Pokerstars.com EPT London: Day 2 - At A Glance

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Meanwhile the Roland De Wolfe rollercoaster is over, after eliminating one player with vs he then bet 7k on the river of a board against Peter Eastgate, Eastgate raised enough to set De Wolfe in and Roland looked puzzled. "What can you have?" he said. Roland made the call flipping for the rivered set but the WSOP ME finalist showed for the nuts to eliminate another Brit.

Not a good day for the Britis.



Peter Eastgate

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Eric Liu has been one of the first recipients of the yellow 5k chips. The Card Runners man has about 90k at the moment.

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Any news yet on Erik Sjodin, Jon Heath and Tomas Mcnamara (Fionn). Just heard Fionn could be on around 90k.
Thanks

Press access is restricted but I'll go and have a look for them shortly.

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David Beyamine has been added to this growing table of Doom featuring Gus Hansen, though as soon as he sat down he instigated some prop betting with Hansen and Barry Greenstein, grabbing some pens and paper from a slightly startled Snoopy.

Meanwhile in the hand in progress, Michael Martin raised a 10.5k bet to 50k on a , effectively putting Georges Moussa all-in, but the latter declined to call handy another decent pot to his fellow American.

Ian Frazer then doubled up through Gus Hansen, with against after the board came

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Big Stack Watch!

Johannes Strassman - 240k.

Johannes has multiple EPT cashes behind him including a few final tables. The German is definitely one of the up and coming stars of the game and many think he bears a passing resemblance to Jason Bourne.

Not entirely convinced. Thoughts?

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And another meaty stack is that of the sometimes controversial, but always accomplished, Sorel Mizzi.

The Canadian is following up his near bracelet miss in the WSOPE where he finished runner up to Dane Theo Jorgensen in the £5k PLO event with another deep, impressive run here.

The man known online as "imper1ium" has about 190k at present...

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Who's Hot And Who's not?

With hotties Beth Shak and Vanessa Rousso still hanging in there, here are two more female poker stars who are in good shape both in chips and in other ways!

Here is Vicky Coren, flying the flag for blighty and looking to pick up her second EPT title at the Vic, a locale she knows well and where everybody knows her name.

Cheers Vicky and good luck with your 80k stack. She'll have to avoid the sticky plundering hands of her adjacent competitor Max Pescatori though, who'll be looking to get his hands on her booty...as it were.



Also battling on, a report that will please update regular jpean, is former French actress Alexia Portal, member of the accomplished team Winamax.

Alexia has 60k at present.

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Some more shots from the floor.

Carter Gill, the verbose American who ruffles feathers sometimes with his abrasive table talk - 80k.



Just out of shot but seated next to Carter we have Scotty Nguyen. The extrovert $50k WSOP HORSE winner is slightly subdued today, with barely even a whisper of a single "baby" to be heard at his table.

He has come slathered in his usual assortment of bling though and it's hard to miss the mulleted star even when he's quieter than usual.

Maybe someone should buy him a beer...ahem.

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The man with the hat, none other than Mr Nicholas Levi is still hanging on by his fingertips with 35,000 or so.

Here he is, primed for business, hat squarely on his head.

"I've been up and down all day today" he told me. "Still in the danger zone you know."



Joe Grech has a similar stack - 35k - but considering he returned at the start of the day with 10k, this represents a big increase in his good fortunes and as a result we see the laughing, joking Grech so recognizable to players and media on the UK circuit.

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Beth Shak has eliminated Andres Kovacs with Aces vs Kings. As Kovacs debated the call. Beth Shak DID NOT dance around the area shouting, "I got it, I got it" before singing with Phil Hellmuth "We got it, we got it.

She did have it though and Kovacs departed after a kingless board.

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And now as we're on a break it's time for............

DWELLATHON 2008!!!!!

Starring !

Gus Hansen and Arnaud Mattern!!

We join the action on the river of a board with Gus Hansen to act after Arnaud Mattern called his 6,600 bet on the turn.

Gus thinks...



No, he really thinks...



Like forever...



But then he checks, and it's over to Arnaud, who thinks...



Readjusts his glasses and thinks some more...



Before he too checks, Gus says, "I can't win, flipping ." Arnaud shows for bottom two pair. Gus, consoling his short stack says, to no-one in particular, "I had Jack Ten and didn't raise it in the small blind." He sighs.

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We have been told that the play will go to eight levels or 32 players left, whichever comes first.

With a mere 73 players left at his point, it looks more than possible that they will reach that magic point of 32 players first though nothing is predictable in poker!


At the moment there are a host of French players still in the mix....

David Benyamine has 60k and countryman Arnaud Mattern, the man capable of stopping trains with a single raised eyebrow, is storming along with 120k!

There are plenty of other French still in the mix. As someone in the pressroom commented "The frogs are doing well!"

French blogger Benjo was quick to retort with his own gentle mock. "The rosbif not doing so well!"

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has stevie444 busted??

Apposite timing there...

A huge pot just played out between Steve Chidwick, Julian Thew and Marcin Horecki.

Steve Chidwick has been operating off a smallish stack for much of the day and he just pushed it in, only for Marcin to flat call.

Julian now shoved all-in over the top and Marcin was put to a decision for his stack.

He elected to call!

Sadly I didn't see Steve's hand but Julian held pocket Kings and was in good shape for a crucial double through as Martin showed down A-Q...

Sadly for Julian, an Ace hit the flop and he never recovered as the board blanked out, meaning we lose Julian and Steve in one fell swoop and Marcin scoops a giant 180k size pot.

Sick, harsh beat for Julian and hopes of an english winner are dealt a Thew-ge blow by this exit as two home grown players are banished to the rail in quick succession...


Suddenly though, english hopes are raised with the news that Ian Fraser has despatched Danish legend Gus Hansen to simultaneously move "The Raiser" over the 100k mark and remove a big danger man from the roster of potential EPT champions...

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has stevie444 busted??

Apposite timing there...

A huge pot just played out between Steve Chidwick, Julian Thew and Michael Martin...

Steve Chidwick has been operating off a smallish stack for much of the day and he just pushed it in, only for Martin to flat call.

Julian now shoved all-in over the top and Martin was put to a decision for his stack.

He elected to call!

Sadly I didn't see Steve's hand but Julian held pocket Kings and was in good shape for a crucial double through as Martin showed down A-Q...

Sadly for Julian, an Ace hit the flop and he never recovered as the board blanked out, meaning we lose Julian and Steve in one fell swoop and Martin scoops a giant 180k size pot.

Sick, harsh beat for Julian and hopes of an english winner are dealt a Thew-ge blow by this exit as two home grown players are banished to the rail in quick succession...

It wasn't Michael Martin in this hand, it was Marcin Horecki. Horecki had gone to raise not seeing Stephen Chidwick's shove and decided to flat-call the 20k shove. Julian moved all-in for an extra 50k on top and Horecki called for most of his stack before peeling the aces off. Julian was a bit shocked afterwards, "Perhaps he thought I was steaming?" Chidwick had Q-J btw.

Either way Horecki has about 150k now.

Ian Frazer has also busted Barry Greenstein.

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56 players are going to be paid and we're one table away from the bubble.

Glittering Cash Prizes!!!

1st - £1,000,000
2nd - £525,314
3rd - £303,439
4th - £234,920
5th - £195,766
6th - £153,351
7th - £120,723
8th - £81,569

9 - £50,574
10 - £50,574

11 - £35,891
12 - £35,891

13 - £26,102
14 - £26,102

15 - £19,576
16 - £19,576

17 - £16,313
18 - £16,313
19 - £16,313
20 - £16,313
21 - £16,313
22 - £16,313
23 - £16,313
24 - £16,313

25 - £13,052
26 - £13,052
27 - £13,052
28 - £13,052
29 - £13,052
30 - £13,052
31 - £13,052
32 - £13,052

33 - £11,419
34 - £11,419
35 - £11,419
36 - £11,419
37 - £11,419
38 - £11,419
39 - £11,419
40 - £11,419

41 - £9,789
42 - £9,789
43 - £9,789
44 - £9,789
45 - £9,789
46 - £9,789
47 - £9,789
48 - £9,789

49 - £8,156
50 - £8,156
51 - £8,156
52 - £8,156
53 - £8,156
54 - £8,156
55 - £8,156
56 - £8,156