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EPT Budapest Day 4 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2008-11-03 22:04
England’s Will Fry will definitely always remember Budapest with a smile on his face. The winner of the first Hungarian EPT stop took down a prize of €595,839 on his very first major live poker tournament participation.
On his way to victory, he outlasted 531 players, and prevailed at an extremely fast final table. Zoltan Toth, the last remaining player of the local contingent, started the final table action in the chip-lead.
Despite the fact that he had things pretty much under control, Toth got into a dangerous three way hand with Johnny Lodden and Martin Jacobson.
Both Toth and Jacobson called Lodden’s preflop raise. The flop came Jd,8s,2d and Lodden bet out hiding a pair of Kings in his pocket. Toth made the call, but Jacobsen went all-in. Lodden was quick to call, and Toth called too eventually, holding an Ad, Kd for the nut flush draw. Jacobsen was on a flush draw himself with 10d, 7d in his pocket.
The 7h on the turn and the 9c on the river failed to fill up either of the flush draws, however it hit Jacobson’s straight draw dead on, sending Lodden and his Ks packing as the first casualties of the final table.
Toth himself was left in a pretty bad shape after this hand and it only took a few more hands for him to bust out in 7th.
Gino Alacqua fell 6th at the hands of Ciprian Hrisca, when he ran his A,10 into the latter’s A,Q which made a straight on the river.
Mario Serenelli finished 5th, knocked out by Will Fry. A few hands later, Fry disposed of Albert Iversen too.
Ciprian Hrisca was at fault for Martin Jacobson’s elimination when his flush beat the latter’s two pair.
The heads-up portion of the game lasted for a mere 30 minutes. The final hand saw a whole bunch of raises and re-raises being fired out until all the money ended up on the table. Fry’s J,J was matched against Hrisca’s A,6 on a board of Q,6,10,K,Q.
The fresh EPT Budapest champion said he’d spend the prize-money on mortgage, on helping out friends and on charity.
