2007 EPT Warsaw

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2007 EPT Warsaw

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
1,266,711 PLN
Event Info
Buy-in
15,800 PLN
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
3,000

Marius making moves

Marius Torbergsen is now low stacked after the earlier hits he took, having barely more than 100k. He took advantage of his late positions two hands running by pushing all-in and stealing the blinds and antes. The first move resulted in Farid surrendering his big blind and showing {Q-Spades}{10-Hearts}. One or two players raised their eyebrows at the chip leader refusing to risk 100k in this spot.

Tags: Farid MeranghiMarius Torbergsen

Player Profile: Katja Thater

Seat 6: Katja Thater Germany, 40, Germany.
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.

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Level: 17

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

Fearless Farid

Farid Meraghni just picked up a nice pot.

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 {A-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{5-Spades}

The blind positions check.

Marius fired out 25,000.

Farid calls

Katja folds

The turn was {A-Diamonds}

Farid checks. Marius slows down and checks too.

The river was {A-Clubs}

The watching crowd gasped a little. Both players smiled and checked.

Farid showed {7-Diamonds}{7-Hearts} for the full house. Marius mucked. Brave play by Farid Meraghni on the flop. This chip leader is not going to be pushed around!

Tags: Farid Meraghni

O'Flaherty for the UK

O'Flaherty Gets the Danish Inquisition
O'Flaherty Gets the Danish Inquisition
This is Andrew O'Flaherty . Early on, Andrew raised the blinds of Fredrik Horstrup and Peter Jepsen only to be greeted by some chat from Fredrik who insisted that he could not lay his hand down and would go all-in if necessary. Two minutes later he folded (as did Peter without a whimper). Andrew told Fredrik "You talk a good game" and followed up with a stony look!

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Player Profile: Andrew O'Flaherty

Seat 4 Andrew O'Flaherty, 45, UK.
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.

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Player Profile: Peter Jepsen

In between the action we'll bring you some player profiles, kindly sent to us by the European Poker Tour staff.

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.

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