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European Poker Tour Grand Final Underway
BY: BRENDAN MURRAY
PUBLISHED: Saturday Apr 12, 2008 07:01 AM
Field Grows at PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final today attracted 396 players to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Casino today and with a provisional registration of 745, last year’s record-breaking 706 runners looks set to be surpassed.
The event began at 1 p.m. local time today and with 15,000 starting chips and 90 minute blinds players will put in a long shift on the felt today with tournament director Thomas Kremser announcing they would play seven levels and not the expected six.
The event line-up for today reads like a who’s who of world poker and the action was high-octane from the get-go.Noah Boeken
Team PokerStars pro Noah Boeken got a very nice touch in the third hand of the tournament. He found aces and was a little worried when his raise of 150 was met with four callers. When the action was on the big blind he raised to 1,200 and the rest of the players obviously got out of the way pretty quickly as Noah made it 4,000. The big blind then went all-in, having Boeken covered by just 75 in chips.
The big blind showed A-K and the board came an innocuous 8-4-3-Q-K giving the Dutch star a tidy double up. He is rightly looking very relaxed and bantering with Mel Judah who is sat to his right.
Mark Teltscher, former EPT winner and second place finisher earlier this year in Barcelona was knocked back to 4,075 in chips after getting into some trouble with aces against a flopped set on a raggy, un-coordinated board.
The floor was called as Teltscher confidently threw 7,000 in chips into the pot on the turn.
It was 4,375 to him but he didn’t announce all-in and claimed that his bet obviously was meant to put his opponent all-in. After a minor kerfuffle the floor ruled that the raise would stand and his opponent confidently threw over 8-8 and with one on the flop and no ace on the river, Teltscher looked rueful while his opponent let out a yelp of delight.
Team Full Tilt pro Phil Ivey watched on impassively during the commotion as did father and son Peter and Josh Gould who are sat opposite each other at the table.
CardPlayer.com has a crack team of eight journalists at the event covering all the action in live reports, TV, and photographs
European Poker Tour Grand Final Underway
BY: BRENDAN MURRAY
PUBLISHED: Saturday Apr 12, 2008 07:01 AM
Field Grows at PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final today attracted 396 players to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Casino today and with a provisional registration of 745, last year’s record-breaking 706 runners looks set to be surpassed.
The event began at 1 p.m. local time today and with 15,000 starting chips and 90 minute blinds players will put in a long shift on the felt today with tournament director Thomas Kremser announcing they would play seven levels and not the expected six.
The event line-up for today reads like a who’s who of world poker and the action was high-octane from the get-go.Noah Boeken
Team PokerStars pro Noah Boeken got a very nice touch in the third hand of the tournament. He found aces and was a little worried when his raise of 150 was met with four callers. When the action was on the big blind he raised to 1,200 and the rest of the players obviously got out of the way pretty quickly as Noah made it 4,000. The big blind then went all-in, having Boeken covered by just 75 in chips.
The big blind showed A-K and the board came an innocuous 8-4-3-Q-K giving the Dutch star a tidy double up. He is rightly looking very relaxed and bantering with Mel Judah who is sat to his right.
Mark Teltscher, former EPT winner and second place finisher earlier this year in Barcelona was knocked back to 4,075 in chips after getting into some trouble with aces against a flopped set on a raggy, un-coordinated board.
The floor was called as Teltscher confidently threw 7,000 in chips into the pot on the turn.
It was 4,375 to him but he didn’t announce all-in and claimed that his bet obviously was meant to put his opponent all-in. After a minor kerfuffle the floor ruled that the raise would stand and his opponent confidently threw over 8-8 and with one on the flop and no ace on the river, Teltscher looked rueful while his opponent let out a yelp of delight.
Team Full Tilt pro Phil Ivey watched on impassively during the commotion as did father and son Peter and Josh Gould who are sat opposite each other at the table.
CardPlayer.com has a crack team of eight journalists at the event covering all the action in live reports, TV, and photographs