2009 PokerNews Cup Alpine

Event 2 - €55 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys
Day: 1
Event Info

2009 PokerNews Cup Alpine

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
€3,183
Event Info
Buy-in
€50
Prize Pool
€10,623
Entries
63
Level Info
Level
13
Blinds
5,000 / 10,000
Ante
700

Table 1 Chip Counts

Table 1:

Seat 1: Thomas Thalhammer -- 3,600
Seat 2: Stefan Podechtl -- 8,000
Seat 3: Kasper Frohling -- 20,400
Seat 4: Michael Pesek -- 15,800
Seat 5: Jokubaitis Gintaris -- 6,400
Seat 6: Joost Winjen -- 40,000
Seat 7: Gerard Deckers -- 6,800
Seat 8: Peter Griesmann -- 3,900
Seat 9: Johannes Franse -- 10,500

The Rise & Fall of Alexander Eder

In the space of just two hands, Alexander Eder both doubled through, and doubled out.

The 'rise' came in a battle of the blinds confrontation with Yoeri van Erp, the latter pushing from the small blind with {K-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds} and being snap-called by {K-Spades}{10-Diamonds} in the big. A {6-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-Spades}{5-Clubs}{4-Clubs} board, however, delivered Eder his one of three outs to see his stack increase two fold to 4,700.

The 'fall' came courtesy of Noel Ramu, the latter's {A-Clubs}{10-Clubs} slightly behind against Eder's {8-Spades}{8-Clubs}. The {4-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} seemed safe as houses, but the {10-Hearts} on the turn virtually sealed the deal. At this point, Eder made a noise as if someone had plucked a hair from his eyebrows, before the {2-Diamonds} river confirmed his demise.

Meanwhile, Ramu appears to be close to the 20,000 mark.

Tags: Alexander EderNoel Ramu

Level: 8

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Rasmus on the Rampage

Eduard Borochov seems to have either limped or raised under the gun; either way, a short-stacked Sandra Ambroz moved all in, only for giganto-stack Rasmus Gandrup to reraise enough to cover everyone else at the table. Borochov slammed the rest of his chips across the line, and they turned their cards over.

Borochov: {A-Clubs} {10-Hearts}
Ambroz: {A-Diamonds} {4-Hearts}
Gandrup: {8-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds}

Board: {A-Spades} {7-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}

Thus Gandrup made a straight and both Ambroz and Borochov got themselves an early night.

Tags: Rasmus Gandrup