EPT Warsaw: Day 2 Live Updates

Dario Minieri Team PokerStars Pro

Stefan Rotach started with a raise from hijack and he was called by
Minieri and Joao Barbosy from the blinds. Then we saw a flop of .
The blind players checked to Rotacha, who attacked with a bet for 9,500.
Then Dario pushed all-in his entire stack with and with the straight draw. Stefan called with two pairs and showed a . On the turn everything was done, because of  . Rotach had full boat. However the straight caught by Minieri on the last street  thanks to spelled defeat for Dario.

Rotach raised his chip count to 90,000, while Minieri dropped from 150,000 to 100,000 in his stack.

We lost another Polish player. Sebastian Duzy Sloń Szuster went all-in from the button for 21,000 with the and he got called from his opponent on the blind with . The flop showed , so Szuster caught a pair and neutralized opponent's 8x. This 8 became active after the turn of , which gave stronger two pairs to the Polish player. Unluckily on the last street we saw a . It brought a straight for Szuster's rival and hence only Krzysztof Boniek Tabaszewski of the Polish runners was left.

Sebastian Ruthenberg PokerStars Spensored PLayer

After the big coin flip, Sebastian Ruthenberg busted out.
Ruthenberg played preflop raise of 4,600, and he got 3-bet from Patric
Martensson for 18,000. In reply, he went all-in with and Patric called with . On the flop of Martenson found a pair. Last two streets were blanks, and when the players saw the turn of and the river of Sebastian stayed with 1,100 in his stack, which he gave to Isabelle No Merci Mercier in next hand.

Player NOTE:

A professional poker player, he was born on February 6, 1984, in Hamburg. He is also the winner of
World Series of Poker Bracelet and the title of European Poker Tour. He is the winner of PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Open, where he collected 1,361,000 EUR. In 2007, he reached the
final table in Dortmund.
He finished 3^rd and he won over 200,000 EUR.

Grzegorz Warsaw Mikielewicz

Unluckily, a few Polish players busted out in a very short amount time and there are only 3 left now.
First, Michal Mipi Piechowski
finished the tournament, he was busted by Gino Alacqua. After Gino's
open rasie for 3200, Michal played all-in for 4000 and he was called. An
Italian player with his K-Q needed some helping cards against the Polish player
who held Ad 5d and he found them: the king on the turn took the chance
for Polish winning away.

In a very thankless hand, Jerzy Hajer Hajdamowicz
busted out. After rival's open raise of 3,000, Jerzy decided to play
with 6-4. On the flop of K-6-2, he called the continuation bet and when
he saw 4 on the turn he played all-in for his 10,000 chips - two
pairs against opponent's King set. The last street card
confirmed that Hajjer lost this battle.

Still in the stack we have Grzegorz Warsaw Mikielewicz with 10,000, Sebastian Duzy Slon Szuster with 17,500 and Krzysztof Boniek Tabaszewski 20,000.

Bertrand Elky Grospellier

Just two lost hands are enough to  become the short the stack and eventually get busted out. After losing to a coin-flip and a battle against 3 outs, Bertrand ElkY Grospellier went to the bar for a drink.

It all started after some all-in action preflop: Kevin
Macphee open raised with , Elky 3-bet with , then Macphee went-all in and he was called by the Frenchman. On the flop of Kevin found a set; however on turn and on the river gave him full house, while Elky only had a pair, losing 9,000 chips.

The critical hand came when Elky pushed preflop
with ace and queen; he was called by an opponent with an ace and
jack, but unluckily, his rival caught a pair of jacks on the flop.
ElkY was really mad after the hand. He didn't want to talk with the reporters and he simply vanished.

Isabelle No Merci Mercier

Isabelle
Mercier doubled up. After the button's raise of 2200, Isabelle
pushed all-in for her entire 14,200 stack. Her opponent thought for a
while and called with . Mercier had a very unpleasant suprise for him, because she had . On the first street she foud set of , and then we saw . When the turn showed a , everything was clear.   on the last street was just a formality.

Johnny Lodden

The tournament finished for Norwegian player Johnny Lodden.
First, he played all-in from the button and he got called from Italian player Gino Alacqua on the small blind. Lodden showed a , however, Gino had a . Everything became complicated on the first street, which brought . On the turn  an Italian player got an , which gave him two pairs. Johnny had just the last street to eliminate Gino. Unluckily, the river brought a and Lodden was left with 2BB in his stack.

In the next hand Johnny pushed all-in from the cut-off and he got called by chipleader Anthony Lellouche (big blind position). The Norwegian
showed against Frenchman's . The flop  showed a
board, so Lellouche was a leader with that hand. However, Johnny found 4
outs with the gutshot straight draw. The turn brought blank turn came, bringing a , then Lellouche got help from the dealer - a Queen! - and the river showed a . This way, Johnny Lodden stayed in the game with only 4,500  chips in his stack.

He didn't belived in the necessity of another hand so he went all-in. This time he was called by Jerzy Hajer Hajdamowicz, who showed against Lodden's . On the flop of , Lodden was very glad, because he found a pair. More, he also neutralized Hajer's
cards, because even if Hajer will catch another pair, Lodden has a
straight. But Hajdamowicz had 3 outs to bust out Johnny and the turn
showed a . Then, the river brought a... . After this hand, Grzegorz Hajdamowicz had 12,000 behind his stack.

Jerzy Hajer Hajdamowicz - 14,000

Krzysztof Boniek Tabaszewski - 9,000

Sebastian Duzy Sloń Szuster - 17,000

Robert Kucharski - 14,500

Piotr Kopacki - 16,000

Marcin Doli Doliwa - 14,000

Michał Trotyl Zaremba - 16,000

Michal Mipi Piechowski - 13,000

Michał Wiśniewski - 8,500

Grzegorz Warsaw Mikielewicz - 21,000

Dario Minieri

Dario Minieri played all-in preflop with but Johannes Strassmann showed the pocket queens .
Minieri had less chips than Johannes, and his hopes were depending on an ace. The flop showed a board and it gave 9 outs to the Italian player to bust out Strassman. The turn brought an , which gave Minieri's top pair and left his opponent just with 1 out on the last street. The river brought a blank , and it was the end for Strassman. After this hand, Dario Minieri upped to over 40 000.

Wojtek SC Frankowski

We had a fratricidal war between Wojciech SC
Frankowski and Jerzy Hajdamowicz. Wojtek played push with Tx 7x from late position after opponents folded. Jerzy called, and showed the Ax Kx. They both made a pair on the flop, Wojtek with a 7x, Hajdamowicz with a Kx. Jurek, who had more chips than SC, took over all pot and busted Frankowski.

Afterwards, Napalm pushed all-in on preflop with the pocket of Tx Tx and he got the call from his rival, who showed Jx Jx. After the flop of we were glad. However, the turn brought a ,which left our player just with 1 out on the last street. The river brought blank .

Bertrand Elky Grospellier

Allan Smurfit

Table 3
Dario Minieri
Johannes Strassmann

Table 4
Anthony Lellouche

Table 5
Johnny Lodden
Raul Paez

Table 6
Juan Maceiras

Table 7
Lodovic Lacay

Table 9
Alex Kravchenko

Table 10
Roland de Wolfe

Table 11
Sebastian Ruthenberg
Bertrand Elky Grospellier
Arnaud Mattern

Table 14
Allan Smurfit
K Thater

Table 15
Sergei Shcherbatskiy
Peter Jepsen

17 Polish players are left in the stack and we count on them!