October 30th, 2008
Oh so close…
Just to prove how fast the stacks move around in the EPT, within the last level of blinds in Day 1B, 2 Ongame players succumbed to better hands resulting in their demise, subsequently resigning them to elimination from the PokerStar.com EPT Budapest.
First to go was Hungarian Csaba László Tóth of Red Kings. Having accrued a stack of around 24k, Csaba lost about 16k when his pocket Q♠ Q♦ weren’t enough to win the generously sized pot. In the next pot of his involvement, the Hungarian made a move all in for his remaining 8k with K♠ J♦ . There was a caller with pocket 5♠ 5♥ . Already being behind, the 5♦ on the flop didn’t exactly help. There also wasn’t any help on the turn or river and Csaba was out. With 8 minutes left of Day1B and fairly short stacked, Petr Slavik made a move of his own. Betting 2100 preflop, the Czech was then put all-in for his remaining 6k to which he obviously called. The cards saw daylight with Petr showing K♥ Q♠ and his opponent showing A♣ Q♥ he was gonna need some help. Unfortunately for Petr…”help” had already gone home by this time. With the the entire board blanking out, it was home time for the bwin player. Both Csaba and Petr are going to be playing future EPT events. Before leaving, Petr mentioned this was just a warm up for the EPT in Prague on the 9th of December, so remember this name for the future!
Red Kings player, Jesper Höög, goes through to Day 2 tomorrow with a slightly below average chip stack. Unfortunately, the last hand of the night saw his stack drop from around 27k to 20k. Still plenty of chips to play with though. Toni Ojala also of Red Kings is through to Day 2 with a chip count of 15,7k. At one point, the Finnish player was up to 27k. Peering down at his hand… Q♥ Q♠ Toni raised 5k preflop and picked up a caller. The flop came and Toni bet 6k on his over pair. He was then forced to fold on the turn when his opponent had bet too strong for Toni to call.
Today 94 players moved forward to Day 2 tomorrow. That means 192 players in total are through to Day 2, with 4 of them from the Ongame Network! Congratulations to Danny Rasmussen, Pantelis Pavlis, Toni Ojala and Jesper Höög for making it through!
Will any of these Ongame soldiers make it to Day 3 or even to the final table and possibly take home the first prize cheque of €595,839? Readers, tomorrow I’d suggest you wear shorts and t-shirts, turn on the air-conditioning and put a couple of cold ones in the fridge…because it’s going to be hot, hot,
