EPT Budapest: Major movements
Level 12 has recently just ended, and there have been some major movements in the past couple of hours.
In the literal sense of that word, Johnny Lodden has been relocated to sit next to Sorel Mizzi and opposite Luca Pagano, offering a real treat for the online poker-obsessed rail bird. Meanwhile the big movers [...]
EPT Budapest: Attacking the leader
Like the blaze of glory performed at times yesterday by Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri, Arnaud Mattern is displaying similar flare at his table which features Danny Ryan, Paul Testud and the last remaining Polish player Jecek Ladny. The Frenchman just won three of four pots simply by raising in late position (and once from [...]
EPT Budapest: National pride
The Irish player Fintan Gavin scored the biggest success of his poker career when he came second to Sebastian Ruthenberg at the recent EPT event in Barcelona, earning him €792,000. He did so by endearing himself to the Catalan poker gods by kitting himself out in the immediately distinctive red and blue of Barcelona FC [...]
EPT Budapest: The state of play
Play is progressing at a breakneck pace, with players sliding out the door like greased pigs down a fireman’s pole. Among those notable fallers are William Thorson, Alan Smurfit and Denes Kalo, all of whom started with small stacks, and Pierre Husson, who was one of the overnight leaders but had a catastrophic day two. [...]
EPT Budapest: What is, what could have been, what was…
The Paganos, or “Pagani” as one person quipped, are still in contention albeit with stacks at opposite ends of the favourable scale. Whilst son Luca is one of the short stacks at a table that features tournament leader Sorel Mizzi, father Claudio just escaped elimination with a fortunate double-up against Pierre Husson, whose day has [...]
EPT Budapest: Around the tables
With the blinds getting steeper the pace of the action seems to be increasing. Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko just pulled off one of those world class calls, holding A-5 against A-Q. When the A-Q player bet on the five river card, Kravchenko’s read told him that his opponent had nothing. With a pair of [...]
EPT Budapest: There’s a gambler in town
“My name is Kenny Rogers! I’m the gambler!”
Actually his name is Ivo Donev and he was talking to one of the chip leaders, Annette Obrestad, explaining to her his intention to raise from the button regardless. Obrestad was in the cut off and made a bet of 1,800. The gambler, true to his word, re-raised [...]
EPT Budapest: Speaking volumes
Often poker is a non-verbal pursuit. As long as you make your intentions clear, don’t under-raise, don’t act out of turn, and don’t get embroiled in any unnecessary controversy, then you can pretty much play as a mute. Plenty of players like to talk around the table, of course, but it’s really not essential – [...]
EPT Budapest: Thorson watch
Someone had to do it, hang around to see whether William Thorson’s 3,400 day two starting stack would be the beginning of something great, or the end of something that could have been. Sadly it was the latter.
Not that Thorson had much choice on a table featuring Alex Kravchenko and blinds starting at 400/800 with [...]
EPT Budapest: Preparing for a new adventure
Day two on the EPT, and here are a few facts about today’s play, sprinkled with fairly safe predictions:
The remaining players from the two day ones are now merged in the ballroom of the Las Vegas Casino, Budapest. That’s a total of 182 in the field, who will hope to play the eight, one-hour levels [...]
Durrr wins biggest pot in poker history
The largest pot in online poker history has been broken once again for the third time in recent week. This time it was a $617,968.50 pot played between Tom Dawn, known better in the poker community but his handle Durrr and his opponent LarsLuzak. The hand ended with Durrr making a sick all in call [...]
FTOPS X Schedule Released
Fulltiltpoker! has announced its schedule for its heralded poker series FTOPS this will be the tenth edition of the series. There will 25 events over 11 days all beginning November 5th 2008 and culminating on November 16th 2008. Fulltiltpoker! is well known as the place to play for the highest limits of any game, and [...]
Daily Freerolls for New Depostiors
From February 14th – 23rd, we’re running a series of daily freerolls for new depositors only. There’s $30,000 in cash prizes up for grabs!
Round 1 daily freeroll details
Tourney Name: Stars New Depositor Freeroll Qualifier
Date & Time: February 14th to 23rd at 13:00, 15:00, 18:00 and 21:00 ET daily
Buy-in: FREE – just make your first deposit [...]