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EPT Budapest Day 1A report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2008-10-29 05:52
The first ever Hungarian
EPT stop was undoubtedly a huge success. The excellent location the
European Poker Tour had chosen for its Central and Eastern-Europe oriented stop paid great dividends. The field was supposed to be capped at 500, but the interest on the part of players was so big, it had to be expanded, just like the London event a month earlier. 540 players registered eventually, with a good chunk of them seeing action on Day 1A.
Celebrities who saw action on Day 1A were Barny Boatman, Marcel Luske, Luca Pagano, Arnaud Mattern and Annette Obrestad. Locals were represented by Attila Foris and Peter Majoros – a Hungarian TV host.
Barny Boatman, Marcel Luske and Dave Colclough were amongst the early casualties of Day 1A.
The LAPT’s Costa Rica champion, Waldemar Kwaysser shoved his last chips in on a pocket hand of A,Q and was unfortunate enough to be called by an opponent with K,K whose hand stood up. Katja Thater followed him to the rail soon, as she ran her pocket 7s into Javier Etayo’s pocket rockets.
Ludovic Lacay had a phenomenal double up on a hand in which he was initially dominated. He shoved all-in preflop on a pair of 10s and got called by Mikael Norinder with pocket rockets. The flop fell an unlikely 10,10,J which put Lacay into a firm lead. The turn and the river failed to help Norinder out, and he lost the pot, but he remained in possession of a fairly large stack. Arnaud Mattern has been hovering near the top of the leader board all day long. He had several excellent calls and managed to trap some opponents all-in.
On one such hand he had a near brush with the rail. He went all-in on A,9 and got called by a player with pocket rockets. The board fell 7,4,6,5,8 giving Mattern a straight and doubling him up to take the provisional chip lead.
Eventually, Mattern ended up second on Day 1A, with 90,600 chips. The lead went to Annette Obrestad, the only player to cross the 100,000 chips barrier.
Sorel Mizzi finished in third with 74,950, followed by Paul Testud in fourth with 66,500 chips and Ionel Anton with 64,800.
