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PokerStars EPT Tallinn – Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-08-15 02:11
The second day of action was a smoking one at the EPT’s Tallinn stop. The action only lasted for 5 levels, but plenty of things happened during this short outing. Jonathan Weekes shot to the top of the provisional leader board, followed by none other than PokerStars’ Ivan Demidov.
More than 200 players returned to the second day of
EPT Tallinn action. At the end of the day, only 82 were still in contention.
Weekes’ sudden chip surge was largely due to a massive pot he took off PokerStars’ Luca Pagano. The two players got into a preflop raising battle which ended in Weekes’ all-in shove. Pagano thought about risking his entire stack for a while, but eventually decided against it and folded his pocket Ks. Weekes then showed pocket Qs for the win. Weekes made quads during the final stretch of the day to chip up further and to clinch the chip lead.
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PokerStars pro was responsible for most of Ivan Demidov’s end of the day stack too. Ville Wahlbeck had apparently turned a straight on a board of 9c,3c,2s,6c,3d, thus finding himself on the wrong end of a perfect hand, because the same card that filled his straight, gave Demidov a flush.
Wahlbeck wasn’t the only PokerStars pro to bite the dust on Day 2 of the
Poker Tournament. teammates of his to head to the rail were: Joep Van Den Bijgaart and Alexander Kravchenko. EPT Player of the Year, Max Lykov was bounced too, together with Jeff Sarwer, Nicholas Chouity and Marc Naalden.
Luca Pagano survived the day on a healthy stack even, and so did Manuel Bevand. Arnaud Mattern, Scott Montgomery and Katja Thater will also be back for day 3 action.
