The European Poker Tour's team of tournament directors is second to none and only tinkers with established rules as and when absolutely necessary. This week in Barcelona, the EPT has introduced a new rule concerning when a stack is considered to be in play at the start of the day. In what can only be described as a pretty long and boring — but nonetheless important — post, PokerStars Blog explains the new approach.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
The first group of players are on their way to the buffet to have dinner. The other players are playing, and will have dinner in an hour and fifteen minutes.
996 players have signed up for this tournament at the moment. How many of those are still in contention is unsure at this point.
Timo Pfutzenreuter made a deep run in the EPT Vienna event last season (5th for €203,900), and made a final table at the WSOP this year as well. He's reading a book again, and he's active at the table again.
Just now we saw him check from the big blind on a 
board. His opponent, Dutchman Tony Broekhof, bet 3,200 and Pfutzenreuter check raised to 11,000. Broekhof made the call in position.
The river was the 
and Pfutzenreuter bet out 18,150. Broekhof thought about it for a little bit, and eventually called.
"Straight" said the German player, showing 
in the proces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
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Marcello Marigliano had made an early position raise and had got to the river against big blind Ivan Soshnikov. The final board read 
and Soshnikov led out for 3,300. Marigliano raised him up to 8,300 and it took Soshkinov a couple of minutes to make the call. It looked like he wasn’t expecting to see the 
of Marigliano but that was the winning hand and he mucked his cards.
On the same table is Team PokeStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel whose stack has taken a bit of a beating.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
27,000 | |
|
13,500
-16,500
|
-16,500 |
|
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Annette Obrestad was in the big blind and involved in a three-bet pot with Daniel Jarosch. The flop was 
and Obrestad led out for 4,500. Jarosch made the call and they went to the turn card .
Obrestad checked and Jarosch bet 7,500 which was near to a third of his remaining stack. I was about a minute before Obrestad twirled her 
in the air for all to see and folded. Jarosch showed his 
and teased her, “You’re such a nit.”
“I am such a nit.” Obrestad agreed smiling.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
17,400
-15,600
|
-15,600 |
Ludovic Geilich made a splash recently when his appearance on the EPT London Main Event feature table was televised and he demonstrated his spectacularly aggressive style of play. In a recent hand he three-bet an under-the-gun raiser to 2,350 and it looked for a while that it was going to work before a four-bet to 6,000 saw Geilich release his hand.
Geilich is used to big swings but so far today has been holding steady around starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
29,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Matthias De Meulder is one of the players seated in the much smaller Tournament Room B. He was up to 60,000 early on, and still hovers around that stack. De Meulder got up from the table and told us the details of the hand he doubled in at the beginning of the day.
The player in the cut off made a raise to 400 in the 75/150 level, and with 
off suit De Meulder called on the button. The player in the big blind wanted to call by throwing in four 100 chips, but made a mistake and had three 100 and one 500 chip, which was declared a raise to 800.
De cut off made the call, which told De Meulder that he had the best hand at that point. De Meulder re squeezed to 2,800 and the big blind made the call, the cut off now folded.
The flop brought 
and the big blind checked. De Meulder bet 3,200 and the big blind made the call. The turn brought the 
to the table and the big blind checked. De Meulder now bet 5,800 and the big blind shoved for 23,000 total.
De Meulder laughed that that gave him a headache, but after some minutes of tanking, the Belgian Team Pro made the call.
De Meulder was up against 
and his hand helt after the 
hit the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
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We reported earlier that Kresten “El Toro” Nielsen had a long road back to remain in contention and since then he has set about doing exactly that. The smile is back on his face and there is a much more sizable stack of chips in front of him.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000
30,800
|
30,800 |
