EPT Warsaw: Live Report Day 1A
Published on 15 Nov 08 12:04 by
We are happy to provide you with live coverage from the EPT Warsaw, courtesy of reporters from the Polish community. Check here for interviews, hands and all the action.
| 01:15 the 1st a day survivors |
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 Finally, we have an official chipcount of A series of the first day of Main Event EPT Warsaw Polish Open. The leader, Anthony Lellouche, has 57,600 in hist stack. We have still 14 Polish runners. Michał Piechowski is on the 14th place with 22 500 in stack.
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| 23:20 end of the 1st day session |
| The play on the last level of blinds was very careful. The poker players didn't run the risk to finish the tournament. We didn't see many interesting actions, and often we had two patterns of playing: raise - 3-bet - fold, or check - bet - fold. 53 runners left. We have had actual chipcountu yet. |
| 23:00 next polish actions |
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   . Grzegorz played all-in for 3500. An opponent folded and gave up the pot.Michał Wisniewski was in the similar situation. After the button player open raise, he called for 1100 from small blind position. The flop showed    . Michal attacked and bet for 2000. His opponent had to fold then.Napalm is also an aggressive player. Before this hand, he raised four times before the flop for 1100, and he didn't find an action. This time Allan Smurfit started with limp from under the gun position. Napalm raised for 1500. Smurfit called. On flop   . Allan checked to Napalma, who continued the bet for 2200. Then Smurfit slid his cards into the muck. |
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| 22:00 Poker Player profile - gavin griffin |
 GAVIN GRIFFIN
Gavin griffin
Team PokerStars Pro
The first
time the world heard about him, was in 2004, when he became the youngest winner
of the World Series of Poker Bracelet. Several times he played at the final
table. He finished 3rd in San Diego World Series of Poker Circuit
Event in February. He also was the 1st in the Grand Final of the
European Poker Tour in April 2007. He also captured 2 400 000 $ in
the EPT Grand Final in
A curious
detail is that Griffin is working for the Breast Cancer Fundation. He had pink dyed
hair during the tournament in Monte Carlo, which was out of solidarity
for the Breast Cancer Fundation. He emphasizes that he owes his triumphs to his family,
friends, and his girlfriend. |
| 22:00 Marek Soprano Piecha and Paweł Zelik Chmiel busted out |
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  Before the break, two Polish players busted out. Marek Soprano Piecha and Paweł Zelik Chmiel finnished their participations on EPT Warsaw. Pawel lost with the pocket of Qx Qx after Allan Smurfits slowroll. However Soprano was very close to double-up action. His all-in Ax Kx preflop was called by the poker player with the pocket Tx Tx. On flop our player found Ax, though the last street brought Tx, so Soprano lost.
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| 21:56 15 minutes break last level of blinds! 7th level blinds are 200 / 400 , ante 50 |
| Because of the less number of poker players than expected, Andrzej Maj, a tournament Director, decided to finish the 1st day at the 7th level of blinds. Blinds are 200 / 000 and ante 50. In few minutes runners will come back to play! |
| 21:53 The new chipleader |
| The position of chipleader has changed. Now Sergey Shcherbatskiy is a chipleader. He has 46 000 in stack. |
| 21:25 Juan Maceiras Double-Up! |
| Juan Maceiras doubled-up. He was on shortstack and he reraised to all-in player. It was the answer for rivals open raise. his opponent called with Kx 6x. Maceiras had Ax Ax . The flop brought Qx 8x 8x and Juan doubled-up to 8 000. |
| 21:18 Paweł Zelik Chmiel Double-Up! |
| We saw nice turn action with    . 1800 in pot. Small blind bet for 750. Paweł Zelik Chmiel ( dealer) played all-in for 2700. His opponent called. Pawel showed   , however small blind had   . A river brought nothing interesting, and Pawel doubled up to 7000.
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| 21:18 Paweł Zelik Chmiel Double-Up! |
| We saw nice turn action with . 1800 in pot. Small blind bet for 750. Paweł Zelik Chmiel ( dealer) played all-in for 2700. His opponent called. Pawel showed , however small blind had . A river brought nothing interesting, and Pawel doubled up to 7000.
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| 21:16 Ricardo Sousa busted out by Ziigmund |
 We didn't watch that hand, but we have Ricardos report, who told us everything post factum. Ziigmund played limp to Sousa. Sousa ( on the button) raised for 1000, and he left behind 5000. So Ilari played all-in. Sousa called with Qx Qx. But Sahamies had Aces Ax Ax. |
| 21:02 the biggest stacks |
| Here we have the biggest stacks: Anthony Lellouche - 35 000 Marco Santini - 30 000 Johnny Lodden - 28 000 |
| 21:00 6th level of blinds 150/300 , ante 25 |
| Another hour of session A of the first day of tournament started. Blinds are 200 / 400 , ante 50. |
| 20:34 Krawiec and Warsaw double-up Marcin biedziak busted out |
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We have good news from the Polish tables! We caught an action on turn with
Short stack Warsaw also doubled up. The hand was started by MIPI ( poker player from Warsaw). He bet for 800 from small blind. Warsaw played all-in for 1800 and he got call.
MIPI -
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. But it was not enough, because Leszek Krawczynski found the flush with 
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| 20:12 Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies Up & Down |
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After the meal break Ricardo Sousa (2nd on EPT Warsaw in March 2008) joined at the table of doom. Sousa is on short with approximate 3000.
However, we saw Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies in action. Preflop Ziigmund open raised for 800 from middle position. The button player and Juan Maceiras on big blind called him. The flop brought |
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and Ziigmund checked once more. The big blind however checked behind and Sahamies showed 
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An opponent continued for 800, however Ilari moved all-in. The rival had about 3500 in his stack and called with
and | 19:59 we are back after break 5th level of blinds 150/300 |
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The poker players came back after the meal break. We have the 5th level of blinds 150/300, no ante. |
| 19:28 approximate chipcount | ||
Here we have some approximate stacks :
Juan Maceiras - 10 000 Gavin Griffin - 19 000 Allan Smurfit - 9000 Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies - 15 000 Polish players: Grzegorz Warsaw Mikielewicz - 4400 Artur Wasek - 4500 Leszek Krawiec Krawczynski - 5000 Mirosław Killer Klys - 5 500 Michal Wisniewski - 10 000 Pawel Zelik Chmiel - 7 000 Amazonit - 3500 Maciej Dowbor - 6000 Marek Soprano Piecha - 5000 Marcin Doli Doliwa - 20 000 |
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| 18:52 Break |
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The poker players are having 60 minutes brake for meal. |
| 18:51 Kara Scott OUT! |
 Unfortunatelly, Kara Scott busted out. Today, Aces are very unlucky. On flop    Kara played all-in with Ax Ax pocket. An opponent called. Ha had 2x 2x pocket. Kara didn't find any help on the last streets. In this way she finished the tournament.
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| 18:40 Zelik vS Wisniewski Warsaw double-up |
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Grzegorz Warsaw Mikielewicz doubled up. After the limp from UTG, UTG+1 and CO, Warsaw played all-in. Big blind called. Limpers folded and Polish player showed |
. A rival had flush draw. 
nn turn nothing has change. On river | 18:30 Juan Maceiras in trouble |
 The next very interesting action we caught on turn at the table #9 . On board    . Juan Maceiras ( middle position) bet for 6000. Cut-off opponent finally played all-in for approximate 10 000. Juan didn't have choice. Ha had so he called. The opponent showed two pairs with  . The last street didn't change anything in this hand, even though the river brough  , which gave 2 pairs for the Spaniard. After this hand Juan Maceiras dropped to 3000. |
| 18:15 Gavin Griffin busted out another opponent |
 At the table of doom we can watch many interesting actions.This time Gavin Griffin (on the photo) busted out unknown player. Under the gun player started with open raise for 500. Sitting next to him, Gavin, raised for 700. Immiediately he was called by Juan Maceiras, who was sitting on his left. Then, the next guy played all-in for over 5000. Gavin called, he showed Jx Jx. An opponent had big troubles with  . After the first street brought  , and then  . After next streets nothing has changed. on turn and  on river. After this hand Gavin has 19 000 in his stack. |
| 17:38 Albert Iversen OUT! |
On flop   . Albert Iversen went all-in for 4000. His opponent called and then he showed  . Iversen bluffed with  . He needed some help on next streets. So next street brought on turn and on the last street. Albert busted out. |
| 17:38 4th level of blinds 100/200 |
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Now we have the 4th level! Blinds are 100 / 200, no ante. 87 runners left. The average stack is 11 379! |
| 17:46 approximate chipcount |
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Here we have approximate stacks of few famous players: Kara Scott (on the photo) - 10 000Anthony Lellouche - 17 000 Juan Maceiras - 6500 Gavin Griffin - 16 000 - 17 000 Allan Smurfit - 9900 Polish players: Leszek Krawiec Krawczynski - 5050 Mirosław Killer Klys - 15 000 Bartosz Stanko Jablonski - 1400 Michal Wisniewski - 10 000 Pawel Zelik Chmiel - 10 000 |
| 17:00 3rd level of blinds 75/150 |
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15 minutes break for poker players. 3rd level of blinds 75/100, no ante. |
| 16:56 Juan Maceiras vS Gavin Griffin |
| At the same table we have Gavin Griffin, Juan Maceiras oraz Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies. This table is full of action. Here is one of the more interesting hands. Gavin Griffin started with an open raise for 300 in middle position. Juan
Maceiras (MP3) raised for 1000. When an action came to Ziigmunda (big blind), he called. Gavin Griffin also called. Flop brought and Gavin attacked for 650. Then, Maceiras played all-in. Sahamies folded, however Griffin called with  and with nuts flush draw. Juan had ,
what was a big suprise for member of PokerStars Pro Team. So Griffin needed just one diamond more to bust out Juan. On turn , however on last street gave  . In that case Juan Maceiras doubled up! |
| 16:30 polish actions! |
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Stanko raised for 250 from UTG+1. Cutoff player reraised then for 750. Stanko called for 500 and checked in the dark. On flop
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. After Stanko's checked, cutoff player also checked. On turn 
. Stanko checked again, but he had to paid 1250 for his opponent after showdown. Polish player chacked with
Jx Jx, but his opponent showed 
Mirosław
Killer | 15:46 2nd level of blinds 25/50 |
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Blinds are on 2nd level 50 / 100, no ante. |
| 15:20 Poland on EPT, Day 1 |
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We have many Polish poker players in the first session of the first day of tournament. Marcin Doliwa, Robert Przygoda, Stefan Rotach, Bartlomiej Jablonski, Tytus Kanik, Michal‚ Piechowski, Dawid Piech, Miroslaw Klys, Zbigniew Szczep, Artur Wasek, Maciej Dowbor and Michal Wisniewski. We cross our fingers!
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| 15:16 We know the number of poker players |
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Tournament Director, Andrzej May, announced that we have 99 poker players today. |
| 15:16 Ricardo sousa won the big pot with Full housem aces defeated again! |
At the table,where Ricardo Sousa sits (he lost with Michaele Schulze in heads-up on ETP Warsaw in March) we caught a river action   on board, when Ricardo bet for 1200 from early position with 2500 in the pot. An opponent thought quite long before the call. Finally, he called and he didn't say the word. Sousa showed  and won the pot. At the othe board we found a flop action on board. When an aggressor on MP2 bet, cutoff player called all-in preflop. The player on middle position was called immediately, he had aces  . Cutopp player showed the pocket with set. Two last streets didn't change anything and cutoff player doubled up. A middle position was big stacked, so he diidn't lose many chips.
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| 14:26 The first player busted out! Antony Lellouche is a chipleader! |
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In the first hand we had a classical action. Antony Lellouche found Kx Kx on pocket. He played all-in preflop and got Ax Ax action from unknown poker player. Unfortunatelly for unknown player, Lellouch found Kx on turn, which gave hin set and the winning hand. An unknown player busted out. Antony is a chipleader of tournament. |
| 14:26 European Poker Tour Warsaw started! Blinds are 25/50 |
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Andrzej Maj, a tournament Director, gave a signal to start! Shuffle up and deal! Blinds are on 1st level 25/ 50, no ante. |
| 14:20 the poker players take a seat at the tables |
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Andrzej Maj, a tournament Director, welcomed all poker players in casino. The poker players are taking theirs seats at the table right now. In a few minutes we will see the first hand! As usually, start at the first day of tournament is late. Even the poker players don't rush to start. |
| 13:45 a little bit of history and top poker players |
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The last event in Warsaw was won by Michael Schulze. An unknown businessman raked up then almost 800,000 $. The proceedings were quite embarrassing. We still remember that boring final table... Let's hope, that this time will be much more interesting.  We don't know still the number of all registered poker players. At this moment, there are something about 360 poker players. A hundred of them are from PokerStars satellites. Also present is member of PokerStars Pro Team, Gavin Griffin, who won the Borgat Winter Open of World Poker Tour in January 2008. Gavin captured almost $1,400,000 there. He cashed in WSOP tournaments twice. We also just saw Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies,
who is one of the top players of the high stakes on the Full Tilt Poker. Present as well is the beautiful PokerStar player, Kara Scott. In the action we will see Raul Paez and Juan Maceiras from Spain.
Paez is one of the most famous and experienced poker players with over $1,000,000 in live tournament winnings to his name. Juan Maceiras played at the final table of EPT Polish Open in March 2008. He was the only player, whose game was actualy interesting. He finished 6th after being busted by the winner, Michael Schulze. Mext informations about another top poker players will come in the following reports. |
| 12:43 the Structure of the tournament |
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Anyone who wanted to sit at the tables of the Main Event EPT in Warsaw, had to find 20 000 PLN + 1000 PLN. Obviously, that there was a possibility to win a ticket in many PokerStar satelites. Traditionally, poker players start with 10, 000 in their stacks, blinds are 25/50, without an ante. Each blind level goes on for 60 minutes. In the first day, we will have 8 levels. The first day is divided into two sessions (A and B). The maximum number of the poker players in two days of the tournament in Casinos Poland in Hyatt Regency is capped at 400. |
| 12:18 welcome from Hyatt Regency! |
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Nothing has happened in the hotel yet, besides at the PokerStars' post, where the players have registred. There's no indication that the biggest poker tour in Poland will start here just in 2 hours. We invite you to the European Poker Tour Warsaw Main Event. The poker players are gathering and registration is still going on in the hotel hall. Everything starts at 2:00 PM CET with the first hand! In few minutes, we will give you some information about the players who will be playing at tables in the first day of the tournament. |
