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EPT Snowfest – Baekke wins
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2010-03-28 23:44
Six days after Day 1A of the
EPT Snowfest Main Event had kicked off in Saalbach Hinterglemm, Denmark’s Allan Baekke lifted the trophy above his head and pocketed the €445,000 top prize. While he truly put in a dominating performance during the last 3 days of the
poker tournament, Baekke had to deal with an extremely cumbersome final table on his way to the title. The 8 players who made it back to the last day of the event represented an explosive mix of online and live poker skills. There were two online “name” pros, three online qualifiers and a Team PokerStars pro.
As soon as the action kicked off, Daniel Van Kalkeren picked up a pair of 5s and decided to stake his short-stack on them. He got called by Alain Medesan though, who had A,K for the classic coin-flip. The flop landed a K and Medesan took the lead, which he didn’t relinquish, sending Van Kalkeren to the rail.
It took about 30 minutes of action for the next elimination to come by. The fate of the next victim was decided by a coin-flip as well. Lucas Baumann’s A,J went up against Johanness Strassmann’s pocket 8s. The board landed a bunch of blanks this time, sending Baumann to the rail.
6-handed play was by no means boring, but it took around 2 hours for another player to head to the rail. Jonathan Schroer was that player, his K,J easy pickings for Johannes Strassmann’s pocket Ks.
Brent Wheeler locked horns with Medesan next. The money went all-in on the turn of a board of 2,5,Q,8. Wheeler then showed Q,2 for the two pair, against Medesan’s set of 5s.
Medesan couldn’t put Wheeler’s chips to good use though. He was the one to be eliminated next, at Allan Baekke’s hands, after Russell Carson handily crippled him on a K,K vs J,J match-up.
Allan Baekke disposed of
PokerStars’ Johanness Strassmann next to set up the heads-up stage of the poker tournament.
Though Baekke controlled the heads-up action for most of the time, Carson put up a pretty good fight. Eventually, he couldn’t swim against the tide for too long though. The final hand of the tournament was a coin-flip as well. Carson’s K,J went up against Baekke’s 7,7. The flop brought a 7 and the fate of the trophy was decided.
