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EPT9 Berlin: Emil Eranosyan runs best to win €550 PLO for €14,000
Before arriving in Berlin, Emil Eranosyan had clocked up the equivalent of $20,582 in live tournament cashes. Yesterday, following two days of six-handed PLO play, Eranosyan pretty much doubled that...
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Poker School Online prepping for Red Spade Open
We at PokerSchoolOnline were delighted to hear that this fantastic bounty tournament is set to return on April 28th, so much so that we want to offer you an opportunity to win your $55 entry for free....
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EPT9 Berlin Day 1B: Victor Ramdin gets things into perspective
Victor Ramdin has always been a good person to listen to regarding poker work/life balance. The New Yorker is a tyrant at the tables, but he's a real philanthropist off of them, and he seems to know...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 1B: Hats off to Joni Jouhkimainen
Some dealers you never hear from, others like to be a vocal presence keeping things in order. Usually though they keep themselves to themselves, only speaking when spoken to and remaining stoic when a...
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Come play the Monaco Cup (€1,100 buy-in, €500,000 guarantee)
We may be in the thick of the action here at EPT Berlin but that doesn't mean that we don't have one eye on the upcoming grand final. If you haven't been to Monaco before, you really should because...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 1B: Final numbers are in...it's 912-handed in Berlin
Counting the number of players in an EPT main event is a far more difficult business than just wandering around the tables with one of those clicking things in your hand. Players qualify or buy in...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 1B: Just two pots a day can help save a Mizrachi from...
Do players enjoy dinner better with 20,000 chips at the break, or 145,000 chips? It's one of those questions we may never know the answer to. But if that first amount bugged Michael Mizrachi as his...
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EPT9 Berlin: Vincent Gabel is the stud of EPT Berlin, wins event #18
Vincent Gabel has won the €550 PL 7-Card Stud for €5,660 after cutting a heads-up deal with Rudolf Zintel, who won another side event yesterday. Dutchman Paul Berende managed to inch his way into the...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 1B: Postprandial surge sends the Grinder out front
They came in their hundreds. Some came early and some came late, although fully aware that with a full week ahead of them nothing was going to be won in the next eight levels. Some were in their seats...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: Ali Azabdaftar and the five big blinds
Yesterday it was Markus Grawe who "returned" as the short stack. Today it was Ali Azabdaftar. The Austrian seemed to know the game was up, even before he took his seat. There were obvious signs; he'd...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: BB in the BB, SB in the SB. Help us fill fantasy EPTLive...
If you've been following the tweets of Boris Becker over the past couple of days (@TheBorisBecker), you'll notice a confusing and endearing habit of his to refer to himself in the third person. But...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: Closing in on the money, Boris Becker talks to PokerStars.tv
Boris Becker is closing in on the second EPT cash of his career. He's also sitting on the EPT Live feature table, where he is mixing up his play and surprising players and viewer alike. He chats to...
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Speed it up, please
There has been plenty of talk about slow games in the poker tournaments. Many well known players have demanded that something should be done about it, and I agree. There is no better way of getting rid...
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EPT9 Berlin: Reigning champ Davidi Kitai battles through bubble, busts
Davidi Kitai doesn't have the usual look of a poker player. He doesn't wear sports clothing - no oversized baseball, sweat pants or sports jersey - and he doesn't fit the old school look either - no...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: Lybaert and Hall graduate to the big game
Last month in Rozvadov, in the west of the Czech Republic close to the border with Germany, a young Belgian poker player named Bart Lybaert won the first Eureka Poker Tour event to visit the town's...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: The bubble. Or: What did the Romans ever do for poker?
A crowd, a camera held up on a big stick, and then nothing. Such is the period of play known as the bubble. It's also a period of great hypocrisy, as the interest shown in those whose tournament life...
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PS Women: Chips and tips from Lydia Cugudda
Coming off a second place finish at the recent UKIPT Series Main Event for £13,140, Lydia Cugudda is seeing the payoff from the last five years of work on her game. Lydia, who plays under the screen...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: Life through a poker snapper's lens
As ever on the European Poker Tour, Neil Stoddart has been snapping away in Berlin today like a Belieber with a new Instagram login. We don't always get the chance to exhibit his work as we might like,...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 3: Beaten in Barcelona, Joentausta is a banker in Berlin
Nobody was really that surprised when the Finns started season nine in winning Fashion. They didn't exactly win the opening event in Barcelona exactly, but they could have if they'd wanted too. Such is...
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EPT9 Berlin: Anaras Alekberovas back on the ascendency
Lithuanian Anaras Alekberovas last lit up the European Poker Tour when the made the final table of EPT Barcelona. A solid performance there saw him finish in 4th place for €301,750. Here in Berlin he's...
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