2007 EPT Warsaw
Main Event
Day: 3
Katja famously took up poker after standing in for her partner Jan while he went to the bathroom during a high-stakes game. Immediately hooked and enjoying success in her home city of Hamburg, she turned pro in 2000. She came 2nd in the Poker Nations Cup in Cardiff, bubbled five times in a row at the WSOP Tunica event in 2005 and cashed twice at last year’s WSOP. Her many TV appearances have quickly made her the best-known female poker player in Germany. She joined Team PokerStars last year.
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
The early tense play is beginning to loosen up. The short stacks will really be feeling the new level's blinds and antes.
Marius made raised it up from the cut off to 18,000. Farid, in the small blind called, as did Katja.
The flop was a scary looking
The blind positions check.
Marius fired out 25,000.
Farid calls
Katja folds
The turn was
Farid checks. Marius slows down and checks too.
The river was
The watching crowd gasped a little. Both players smiled and checked.
Farid showed for the full house. Marius mucked. Brave play by Farid Meraghni on the flop. This chip leader is not going to be pushed around!
Andrew has been playing poker 20 years and competing in big tournaments for the last eight. The married father-of-three hails from Dublin but now lives in Leeds. His biggest win so far was $125,000 in a $1,000 buy-in event at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas. Andrew is not only successful on the felt though; for a hobby, he races greyhounds and has had two St. Leger winners.
Peter Willers Jepsen, 24, Denmark.
Peter took up playing poker after serving in Iraq and being sent home injured. Desperate to rekindle “the rush” of army life, he discovered online poker and in a relatively short time had worked his way up from low 0.5/1 NL Hold’em to high stakes play, both cash and tournaments. In 2006, Peter won $165.000 at the Caribbean Poker Classic in St. Kitts.