October 28th, 2008
Disaster Strikes…
The intelligent readers amongst you will be able to determine from the title, that one of our Ongame Network players has been eliminated.
Paavo Sevänen, one of the three PAF players participating, was eliminated in the last hand before this afternoons 2nd break. The pocket Kings that graced fellow Ongame Network player Pantelis during the last hand before the previous break, had now found their way over to Paavo on table 12 at what seemed like, perfect timing. With Paavo suffering from a common case of “short stack”, he began to build the pot. After raising a small bet from a player in earlier position, he was then re-raised by a 3rd player. The player who initially made the bet, folded and Paavo called the re-raise taking him all-in preflop. Paavo’s “cowboys” were going up against A♥ Q♣ off suit. Being the right side of a 70% favourite and having to dodge a number of possbile outs against him, all looked well…until the flop. The EPT dream began to fade when the dealer revealed a rainbow flop with an A♠ Q♦ in it. Hoping for trips or runner runner straight, all eyes looked to the turn…”blank”. No King…no Jack…no 10. The “runner runner straight” idea soon vanished and was replaced with the desperate need of a King. Left with the 4% chance of hitting one of 2 Kings remaining in the deck, his EPT Budapest future looked bleak. Eyes turned to the river…”blank”. Paavo’s EPT dreams in Budapest evaporated. Speaking to him afterwards, he mentioned how much he enjoyed if, even if it was alot shorter than he would’ve liked.
So far, 5 players from the Ongame Network remain in the action of Day 1A. Pantelis Pavlis is moving along nicely and has improved his 27k stack, up to a very tasty 32k. Over on table 11 Robin Ylitalo has been making steady progress and is now up to 14k after being down as low as 8k. Nice work there! Danny Rasmussen is still surviving over on “the crazy table”…I mean table 4 with around 9,6k. Over on table 9, not alot of action is happening for Anders Johansson, he’s sitting infront of a stack around 7k. Jim Nordman on table 14 is battling away to build on his 2k chip stack. “A chip in a chair Jim, chip in a chair”!!
With 159 players left, the average stack creeping over 16k and about 50 minutes until break number 3, a few of our players will soon need to make a move if they want to experience Day 2 of the PokerStars.com EPT Budapest. I’ve checked the EPT rules out and praying to the poker gods is actually allowed. If a few of the players also have good karma…I suggest them to to call in a couple of favours right about now!
