No finaltable for Dag Polavic. Polavic played on the final table of the EPT Prague and San Remo last year. Too bad for him!

Roland de Wolfe thought he was holding the best hand with Kx8x on a 882 board. His opponent thought otherwise, he was holding 22. An early exit for Roland de Wolfe.

The 2008 winner of the WSOP, Peter Eastgate makes a call with AK on  the river. The board was AxQx8×6x3x. Stuart Rutter won the pot with A3 and Eastgate had to leave.

Dario Minieri can read the deck. He was preflop allin with JJ against QQ. The flop came 7dTh8d, the turn was a blank 2s. But the river was the 9 that gave Dario a nice straight.

At the end of day 1B, there are 177 players from the 570 starters left. Christer Johansson is the new chipleader with 108.000 chips.  Dario Minieri is playing 34.000, Antony Lellouche 38.000. The Dutch Noah Boeken plays about 16.000. Thierry van den Berg, (yes we mentioned him before) is playing around 14.000.

We will be back with more updates tomorrow!

Rolf Slotboom was one of the first big players that had left the building when his kings didn’t hold up against AQ. Day 1A started with 272 players, and stopt with only 88 players left.  We’ve got all the highlights for you!

Rolf Slotboom, who is known to be very tight in de first levels of a tournament, was left over with just a single $50 chip! You all know the story “a chip and a chair”, but not today for Slotboom. Here’s what happend:
Rolf Slotboom was holding KxKx on a 9xAx8x flop. His opponent went all-in, and Rolf Slotboom didn’t believe that his opponent had an Ace. Too bad for Slotboom, his opponent was holding AxQx!

Last year winner, Arnoud Mattern was also eliminated quite early in the tournament. Mattern had a lot of outs on the turn, while holding AsJs, and the board was 9d5s3d10s, His opponent had QdTd, so it was a close one. The river was a brick and the champ was out.

After a few hours of play, Gaspare Triolo is chipleader with a great stack of 60.5k!

Luca Pagona was eliminated after about 6 hours, we will see him next EPT again I think. Later on, Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen, wasn’t able to build up his stack, he has been eliminated.

At the end of day 1A, Luduvic Lacay is the chipleader with 94.200 chips. The player with the least chips is Massimilano Patroncini, he is playing 6.800 chips.

We will have another update scheduled for tomorrow, day 1B. There will be a lot of great playing tomorrow, we will keep you updated!

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier will atleast try to stay ahead on the leaderboard of this season.
Find out which players also would like to win!

But not only will “Elky” try to win, there are a lot of players who would like to add an EPT title to their list of winnings. There are some players on the top ten Leaderboard who would like to rank up. How about Dario Minieri on the 10th place, or Luca Pagano who is 3rd at the moment?

Maybe that Noah Boeken or Thierry van der Berg from Holland will take a shot at the title. Holland could use another big win after Rob Hollink’s Limit Holdém Bracelet from this year WSOP.

Please tell us who your favorite is for this year EPT Prague

However, it will be a though pokergame with a lot of nice plays, and hopefully a lot of Poker-Bluffs!

We will keep you posted!

The schedule of the EPT Prague:

* 3% of all tournaments witheld for tournament staff
** 2 day tournament with final table played on the following day 1pm.
The EPT reserves the right to cancel or alter details of listed events at its discretion.

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