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EPT Snowfest – Day 1B report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2010-03-23 21:35
Day 1B of the
EPT Snowfest Main Event attracted a starting field of 276 players, taking the overall number of starters to 546, well below the 600 mark the organizers had been hoping for. The 546 players combined buy-ins for a total prize-pool that would award the eventual winner a EUR 445k prize. At the end of both Day 1 flights, 259 players were still in contention, having their chips bagged for Day 2 of the
poker tournament. Koen Berendsen was the one who finished the day in the provisional chip lead. As a result of his aggressive approach, he was able to accumulate a stack of 162,200 chips.
Berendsen proved to be quite unstoppable throughout the day. On one occasion, he got involved in a true battle of wills, when he 3-bet with his A,Q and a player 4-bet him. In response, he shoved all-in, and the opponent gave up the chase, mucking his cards.
Ivo Donev had an excellent poker tournament as well. He rode a late surge to 170k chips, after his flush draw filled up on the turn, against an opponent’s top pair. Donev eventually finished with 160k chips.
PokerStars’ own Lex Veldhuis had a pretty rough day early on, but he got lucky and doubled up three times to rocket to the top of the provisional chip leader-board. A flop of Kh,10c,9h saw Veldhuis go all-in holding pocket 9s against an opponent’s straight and flush draws, in the last one of those hands. None of the opposition’s draws filled up, as Veldhuis took down the pot and built his stack to 134,300 chips.
Team PokerStars was well represented at the event and though many of its members busted out during the two day 1 flights, we’ll still see players like Nacho Barbero, Florian Langmann and Luca Pagano return to the green felt on Day 2 of the event. Nasr El Nasr and Felipe Montenegro are also among the survivors.
PokerStars’ Boris Becker had an excellent run, right up to a perfect hand which occurred between himself and Luca Pagano, and of which he bought the shorter end. He rivered a nut flush against Pagano’s flopped quad 8s and there was no way he was getting away from that hand. All his chips ended up in the Italian’s possession as he hit the rail.
