Day 2 Finished at the EPT Prague – Palovic Top of the Ladder

Day 2 Finished at the EPT Prague – Palovic Top of the Ladder

Thursday, 13 December 2007

As seems to be the case in a lot of recent EPT events, Day Two was a bloodbath from the off. Within the first two levels of play, 75 players were felted, with pros such as Rolf Slotboom, Nicky Power and Katja Thater all finding themselves heading for

As seems to be the case in a lot of recent EPT events, Day Two was a bloodbath from the off. Within the first two levels of play, 75 players were felted, with pros such as Rolf Slotboom, Nicky Power and Katja Thater all finding themselves heading for the exit. Whilst the pros faltered, amateurs such as Jose Navarro prospered, picking up chips from those who fell around him.
One of the players who stumbled early was Dag Martin Mikkelsen, better know as online handle, ‘dmmikkel’. The key hand came when Mikkelsen clashed with Suman Nebzib. Mikkelsen raised preflop and Nebzib moved all in. Mikkelsen called with pocket eights and must have been happy enough to see that he wasn’t dominated by an overpair, Nebzib tabling KJo. Nebzib hit his king on the turn though, leaving Mikkelsen crippled. It was Nebzib who finished Mikkelsen off, when he called Mikkelsen’s mistimed stab at a pot with the board reading T-5-5-7-3. Nebzib’s QT was good, Mikkelsen wasn’t.
On the other side of the chip spectrum, Navarro was on a tear, busting two of the big stacks along the way. They say timing is everything in this game, and he was certainly lucky to get so much action when his big stack and pocket kings ran into another big stack owned by Ken Lennard. Lennard flipped pocket queens and the ladies didn’t improve, sending Navarro’s chip count upwards. Latter he flopped bottom set on a 9h-8d-5d board against the chipped-up Stephen Devlin. The chips went all in, and Devlin turned over Kd-6d for a massive draw. The 5h came on the turn, taking Devlin from tons of outs to none in one card.
Thirty two players made it through the carnage and will come back tomorrow to pick up the action. Local favourite Dag Palovic is chip leader, with Navarro in third.



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