Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague
�5,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Entries
570
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
8,000
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"The guy made it 2,000 preflop. No one does that with aces I thought. Anyhow, I hit a king on the river and paid him off. Of course, he had aces."
As a result of that clash, Jelinek has gone from 22,000 back down to 9,000, but remains in reflective mood. "I'm fine about it, it's just having gone up to twenty two..."
and both players check, on the 
turn, Vallo bets 600 and Lacay moves all in for 3,075 more. Vallo calls after about twenty seconds showing a drawtastic 
but taken slightly aback when Lacay shows 
leaving Vallo with less outs than he probably thought. The river is the
, "Right suit..." says Vallo, "wrong number." Ludovic Lacay doubles up to about 8,000.
only for her opponent to push all in for a 8,050 more. With several thousand already in the pot, Skripchenko decided to take a punt with her flush draw, and duly called with 
. "Billions of blistering blue barnacles! (well, it was actually a more hardcore and unrepeatable expletive than that)" said her opponent as he revealed
.But fear not my young Scandinavian friend, as the dear Poker Gods work in the most mysterious of ways...
Turn =
River =
lying patiently on the felt, EPT Barcelona victor Sebastian Ruthenberg had led for 4,500 only for his opponent to announce all in and push over the top. It was only a few pennies extra, but perhaps signaling that he had no hand whatsoever, the German pro folded immediately to leave himself with a depleted stack of 6,500.
Golser pushed against a button raise, but when called he said hopefully, "Ace-queen, ace-jack?" This was because he could only turn over
and upon seeing the 
that his opponent was holding, stated the obvious, "This is very bad." But the board turned out to be very good, coming 
and Golser doubled to 4,000.Lodden's two double ups have come in a much more straightforward manner. First he had
against Stefan Huber's spiking a Queen. Then less than a minute later his 
was good against Ilkka Koskinen's 
. Lodden has gone from 2,000 to 8,000 in the matter of minutes.
Alfonso Amendola -- 17,000
Trond Eidsvig -- 6,850
Anthony Roux -- 11,100
Yuri Zerzhapkin -- 8,225
Gus Hansen -- 9,000
Osman Mustanoglu -- 11,175
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 6,875
Joseph Elpayaa -- 23,500
Luca Pagano -- 2,800
Phidias Georgiou -- 13,250
Ludovic Lacay -- 4,375
Martin Vallo -- 16,000
Johannes Strassmann -- 20,000
Again, another potential dark horse.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Having played Friedman myself in the UK, I know that he can be tougher to handle than a hot potato with an aggressive, yet unpredictable style. If he continues to accumulate chips at this pace, then he could be a genuine dark horse for going deep in this year's EPT Prague.