EPT Warsaw - Day 1 A - Highlights

The most interesting actions of the 1st day of EPT Warsaw Main Event. The biggest actions and great photos.

european poker tour - warsaw polish open Day 1st a, runners: 99, left: 53 chipleader: Anthony lellouche 57 600 average stack: 18 679

We are
having the biggest poker tournament in Poland, finally! First hands of the
European Poker Tour Warsaw - Polish Open, were played yesterday. The event is organized by PokerStars in the casino of the
Hyatt Regency on Belwederska
Avenue in Warsaw.
Organisation of the event is of the highest grade. 
We can observe the experience and 
the professionalism of PokerStars Team.

Because
of the fewer number of poker players than expected, the tournament Director,
decided to change the tournament pattern and finish the 1st day at the 7th
level of blinds. We had 99 players yesterday. 
Everyone of them started with 10 000 in stack. There were over 20
Polish poker players.  After 7 hours, 53
players were left. The biggest stack is held by
Anthony Lellouch from France
( 57,600 in stack). On the 2^nd place is Ludovic Lacay with
a 49,600 stack. On the 3^rd position  is Johnny Lodden from Norway with 41,450 in stack.

The wiev before the first hand

 
The best
of Polish players  was Michal Piechowski,
who has 22 500 behind stack is on the 14th position.  Also , something over 20 000 in stack has
Maciej Doli Doliwa (21 975, 16^th position) and Michal Zareba
(21 625, 17^th position).

Aces were very unlucky
yesterday. 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.
Unfortunately for unknown player, Lellouch found Kx on turn, which gave him set and the winning
hand. The unknown player busted and Antony
was  chipleader of tournament.

On the table with Ricardo Sousa (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.

Photo of the day! Michal Wisniewski, his opponent and... Humberto Brenes on the poster

The
most interesting was The Table of Doom.
This table was full of action. On this table were member of the
PokerStars Pro Team Gavin Griffin, Juan Maceiras who played in the last edition
of EPT Warsaw, and one of the most colourful figures of Full Tilt Poker Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies. He called almost every raise of Griffin. Here we have the
most interesting of actions. 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!

And
the next hand. Gavin Griffin busted out an unknown player. Under the gun player
started with open raise for 500. Sitting next to him, Gavin, raised for 700.
Immidiately he was called by Juan Maceiras, who was sitting on his left. The next player went all-in for over 5000. Gavin called and showed Jx Jx. The
opponent was in trouble with

. The first street brought
, and then

.
After
next streets nothing has changed.
on turn and 

on
river.
After this hand Gavin had 19 000 in his stack.

The Table of Doom - Gavin Griffin, Juan Maceiras and Ricardo Sousa

 
After the
meal break Ricardo Sousa (2nd on EPT Warsaw in March 2008) joined at the table
of doom. Sousa was 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


.
Juan
checked. Ilarie also checked. The big blind bet for 1725. Maceiras folded,
however and Sahamies called. On turn came a
.
and
the Finn checked again. The button player checked behind. The river brought
a 
and
Ziigmund checked once more. The
big blind however checked behind and Sahamies showed

. 
After
this hand Zii had 19 000 in stack.

Few
minutes later he was in the limelight again.  He checked  small blind
for 800.  The flop brought


.
An
opponent continued for 800, however Ilari moved all-in. The rival had 
about 3500 in his stack and called with

. Zii
was held 

.
and
was dominated.  Last two streets brought were
and
and
the Finn had to give up the pot.

Sousa and
Ziigmund finished the tournament at the end of 1^st day. In the first
place, Ilari busted out Ricardo. 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. Unfortunatelly
we didn't catch an action when Sousa busted 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.

Kara Scott

 

Day 1A chipcount
Position	Player	Country	PokerStars Status	Stack
1	Antony Lellouche	France		57,600
2	Ludovic Lacay	France		49,600
3	Johnny Lodden	Norway	PokerStars sponsored player	41,450
4	Marco Fantini	Italy	PokerStars qualifier	41,000
5	Sergey Shcherbatskiy	Russia	PokerStars qualifier	40,950
6	Serguei Pomerantsev	Russia	PokerStars player	39,175
7	Michael Muheim	Switzerland	PokerStars qualifier	36,875
8	Atanas Stoyanov Gueorguiev	Bulgaria	PokerStars qualifier	31,975
9	Moises Parrilla Ramos	Spain		30,650
10	Nico Behling	Denmark		28,375

 

Polish poker players

Polish poker players has also many interesting actions.  MirosÅ‚aw
Killer Klys copes quite good (on the photo). He won mamy hands without showdown.Here we have one of his actions. On turn, with 8x 7x Tx 8x on board, an aggressor played preflop bet for 2000. However Mirosław Killer
KÅ‚ys called. On river
6x, so his opponent checked for 4000 and she got call. She had Kx Kx ,
Killer had Qx 9x with straight on river. 
Michal Zareba doubled up! On flop 8x 5x 5x he played all-in and he got call from the opponent, who had Aces Ax Ax. Michal was better, he found 8x 8x and won with full house. So we had next Aces in Hyatt Regency today!

In the 2nd day of the tournament Klys will be playing with 3800 in hist stack.

Mirosław Killer Klys

Amazonit uped and downed. On flop . Amzazonit played all-in. An opponent called with Jx Jx. Polish showed then Aces Ax Ax and whe he saw and on river, he doubled up to 10 000. Onlimped pot and on on flop, we had four players. Amazonit was big blin and he checked to cut-off player. Cut-off guy bet for 200. Wasek called, the turn brought .
Amazinit attacked for 800, cut-off player called. The last street brought and Polish bet for 1375. He has been called. Wasek showed , but it wasn't enough for and two pairs caught on flop.
Unfortunately, Amazonit busted out.

Amazonit

 
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.

Polish survivors
Position	Player	Country	PokerStars Status	Stack
14	Michal Piechowski	Poland	PokerStars qualifier	22,500
16	Marcin Doliwa	Poland	PokerStars player	21,975
17	Michał Zaremba	Poland		21,625
20	Bartosz Skorupa	Poland		19,175
23	Robert Kucharski	Poland		17,250
24	Grzegorz Mikielewicz	Poland		16,750
26	Piotr Kopacki	Poland		15,450
28	Sebastian Szuster	Poland	PokerStars qualifier	14,850
37	Michał Wiśniewski	Poland		10,150
41	Leszek Krawczyński	Poland		9,125
44	Zbigniew Szczep	Poland	PokerStars qualifier	8,875
45	Jerzy Hajdamowicz	Poland		8,550
46	Stanisław Pardo	Poland		7,750
52	Miroslaw Klys	Poland	PokerStars qualifier	3,800