Live Tournament Updates
Day 1b WPT Slovenia Completed
Level 7: 300-600, 50 ante
Day 1b of WPT Slovenia, presented by Goldbet, has come to an end with 58 of the 95 starters making it through to Day 2.
As expected we saw a larger field today and there were some well known faces amongst the 95 starters, including British pros John Eames and Toby Lewis, and a certain Antanas Guoga, or Tony G as he is more commonly referred to. Tony G is one of poker's most charismatic characters and he turned up fashionably late, almost three and a half hours late. We captured his entrance in this video:
When he sat down he still had more than 25,000 chips, which is testament to this great blind structure. But a quieter than usual Tony G found himself down to just 10,000 but doubled up towards the end of the day when his ace-queen cracked a pair of kings when he flopped a queen and turned another, leading him to joke about poker not being a game of skill.
Our overnight chip leader is Dominik Nitsche, the talented young German bagging up an impressive 120,250 chips at the end of the night. Play will resume tomorrow at 1300 CET where the 26 survivors from Day 1a will combine with the 58 players who made it through today, meaning 84 players will be riffling chips and playing it out for the title of WPT Slovenia champion.
09:18 PM, 07/18/11
Nobody Wants To Bust
Level 7: 300-600, 50 ante
With only 10 minutes of play remaining of Day 1b here at WPT Slovenia, presented by GoldBet, it seems the players are doing everything in their power to make it through to Day 2 tomorrow.
The clock has been called several times in the past 30 minutes as players stall. It's not pretty but it is a tactic many are employing.
08:54 PM, 07/18/11
Wilson Balling
Level 7: 300-600, 50 ante
Kyle Wilson continues to keep touch with the chipleaders and now finds himself armed with 74,300 chips.
Desiderio Boncioli opened to 1,500 from middle position, Antonio Valenti folded but Wilson called from the cutoff. After four players folded Corneliu Cretu called from the big blind.
Flop: 10
49 - All the players checked the flop
Turn: 7
- A 2,500 bet from Cretu was enough to fold out Bonciolu but Wilson stuck around and called.
River: Q - Cretu now checked and Wilson made a bet of 4,500, enough to push his opponent off his hand and make him fold.
08:42 PM, 07/18/11
Schurpf Picks Up Tidy Pot
Level 7: 300-600, 50 ante
Michael Schurpf has just picked up a decent sized pot and is now up to 60,000 chips.
Pawel Skuza opened the betting with a raise to 1,500 from the hijack and both Schurpf (CO) and Michele Limongi (SB) called. Limongi lead out for 2,275 on the K
8J flop, causing Skuza to fold but Schurpf stuck along and called.
The turn was the Q
and this time Limongi checked, but insta-called when Schurpf bet 4,200. The delae rput out the A on the river and both players checked, although Schurpf sat for close to 90 seconds, possibly trying to figure out if he could make a bet.
Schurpf: KQ
Limongi: K9
Schurpf picks up the pot, his kings and queens are good.
08:25 PM, 07/18/11
Final Break Of The Day
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
The players are on their final break of the day. We will resume full coverage in 15 minutes time.
07:48 PM, 07/18/11
Relentless Aggression Wins Pot For Lewis
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Toby Lewis continues to chip up, his latest victim being Andrea Piazza.
Lewis opened the betting with a min-raise to 800 from middle position and his only customer was Piazza in the big blind. The flop came down KQ10 and Piazza checked, Lewis bet 1,200 and Piazza called.
The 5 on the turn saw Piazza check again and Lewis continue his aggression by betting 2,000 and Piazza dwelled for more than two minutes before mucking his hand.
07:47 PM, 07/18/11
Cichocki Crippled
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Grzegorz Cichocki is down to less than 6,000 chips after losing a massive pot to French partyPoker qualifier Benjamin Piquet.
On a 8A6 flop, Piquet lead out form the big blind position with a 3,100 bet, a bet that Cichocki called. The turn was the 7 and Piquet bet 6,175 which kickstarted a flurry of activity which resulted in an all in bet from Cichocki and a call from Piquet.
Cichocki: 84
Piquet: AQ
Piquet was a big favourite in the hand as Cichocki could not hit his flush as Piquet held the nut flush draw to go with his pair of aces. The river blanked out and Piquet doubled to 49,000.
07:43 PM, 07/18/11
Clark Climbs Back Up The Counts
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Chuck Clark finds himself sat with 44,800 chips after Ognjen Sekularac folded to his intense pressure on the flop.
Joining the hand on the said flop, which read 782, Clark lead out for 3,325 chips only to see Sekularac make it 8,000 to play. After counting how many chips were already in the middle, Clark moved all in, a bet that seemed to perplex Sekularac.
We will never know if Clark had the goods or not because his shove was enough to force Sekularac out of the pot. Nice hand.
07:34 PM, 07/18/11
Plan For Today
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
It has been announced that the players will be playing to the end of the current level before they are sent on a 15 minute break. When they return they will then play out Level 7, at whcih point the day will come to an end and everyone will head off to the WPT Party that the Grand Casino Portoroz is putting on completely free of charge.
Our camera man is going to be filming the party so keep an eye out for the highlights appearing on this very site.
07:12 PM, 07/18/11
Online Qualifiers Clash
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Over on Table 4 there are two PartyPoker qualifiers seated right next to each other, David Dyson and Kyle Wilson.
On a flop reading 95J Wilson checked, Dyson bet 1,200 and Wilson called. Unfortunately that was were the betting finished as both players checked the 10 turn and although Dyson looked like he was about to bet the 2 river he did not pull th etrigger and checked behind Wilson.
Dyson: A9
Wilson: Mucked
07:10 PM, 07/18/11
