EPT San Remo - end of day 1a

After the nice start, Jochen continued to chip up after the first break. At 150/300, with an average chipstack of 13k, he has an impressive stack of 35k. In the key hand to get all this chips, he eliminated Australian pro Mel Judah:
Judah raises to 600 from the button, Jochen reraises to 1600 from the small blind. Flop comes Ac8h4h and they get it all-in, Jochen's 88 ahead of Judah's AKhh. The turn bricks and the river brings the case 8, giving Jochen quads and a very nice pot.

After that, he works his stack up to 42k without any real key hands. That stack however dwindled down to 20k when QJ rivered a flush against his AJ when they get it in on a J high flop.
After that, things got better again, and at the end of day 1a he's sitting at 49400 chips, being the 19th stack of the 95 survivors of day 1a.

Looking very good at the moment, let's hope he can keep this up!

pablito_21

first EPT update

Hello all,

this is pablito_21. Because Jochen didn't take his laptop, I'll try to update his blog every once in awhile. His girlfriend and he have had a pretty good time in San Remo so far, staying in a very nice hotel with some of poker's biggest superstars. Patrik Antonius seemed to be quite some player at the welcome party (which Jochen's girlfriend Nele didn't mind too much ;) ). And this afternoon, they had the pleasure of watching Tony G at the swimming pool of the hotel.

About the tournament itself: Jochen is seated at a table with Magnus Petersson (winner of last year's EPT Copenhagen). At the first break his stack is at 14k chips (starting at 10k). He even outplayed Petersson with JT on a J high flop versus Petersson's AJ. So the start looks promising ...

More to come,

grtz,
Pablito_21