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The corridor between the tournament area and the press room at the Las Vegas Casino, Budapest, is going to need recarpeting at the end of this week. On a day of startling activity at EPT Budapest, the returning day three field of 42 players was trimmed to the final nine in less than five hours. Even though it took another 120-odd minutes to shed one … [Read more...]

The eliminations have come thick and fast today as we edge closer to discovering the eight who will comprise tomorrow's final table. The official counts of the last 13 are on our chip counts page, and we'll be reverting to our time-stamped reporting style from here until the final is decided. 8.40pm - And there we have it Ciprian Hrisca had been joking … [Read more...]

It's a sensation just experienced by Christophe Haller, who tussled with PokerStars qualifier Johnny Lodden and came out of it, well, out. Lodden held K-T and found two more on the board, taking the event down to 15 players. Then came the end of Casey Kastle's tournament. Kastle, an adopted American sporting a Slovenia cap of his homeland, bet pre-flop … [Read more...]

Robin Keston moved all-in and whilst Marino Serenelli eliminated another player two tables along, Keston waited for a call, got one and doubled up with pocket eights. But the big news for PokerStars is Johnny Lodden's progress, a near double up that saw him take a big haul from Romanian Ciprian Hrisca with pocket tens, the same hand he'd folded just … [Read more...]

The field has reduced to 19 players on three tables, and flops are increasingly scarce. It's possible to stand somewhere in the middle of the three of them for 15 minutes at a stretch without seeing any cards face up. The usual drill goes raise, re-raise, fold, fold, fold, etc., although there's sometimes a variation on the theme, which goes raise, … [Read more...]

It's Halloween and William Fry is proving hard to kill, if you'll excuse the expression. In a remarkable turnaround Fry, who came out on the wrong end of a hand with Romanian Ciprian Hrisca a short while ago, has now bounced back to the tune of 250,000 - a good fighting weight. Catch up on what William had to say when he spoke to the video blog team … [Read more...]

It marks the last of the Team PokerStars Pros. Alex Kravchenko's attack on an EPT title just ended on the last hand before the break. Short stacked after some earlier clashes brought him back from the heights of 220,000 earlier today. It was a case of threes against nines for the Russian again Ivo Donev. Kravchenko needed a three but none came and … [Read more...]