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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The draw has thrown together some pretty mean looking tables. EPT champions ElkY Grospellier and Arnaud Mattern contend with each other; Dario Minieri has Johannes Strassmann one way and Gino Alacqua the other while Katja Thater’s table features EPT London finalist Alan Smurfit and Andreas Krause. Elsewhere more former champions have been drawn together; Peter Jepsen, a winner here two...
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
“A tough game, exciting and fun”. That was Maciej Dowbor’s account of the day on his way out, busted by Alan Smurfit shortly after we mentioned him on the blog. Whilst he made his way into the Warsaw night Arnaud Mattern was getting serious in a pot against Leszek Krawcynski. Mattern made it 825 to go pre-flop which Krawcynski called from the button. The flop came Th-2d-Kh. Mattern,...
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PokerStars.com Official Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Play is progressing at a breakneck pace, with players sliding out the door like greased pigs down a fireman's pole. Among those notable fallers are William Thorson, Alan Smurfit and Denes Kalo, all of whom started with small stacks, and Pierre Husson, who was one of the overnight leaders but had a catastrophic day two. The young Frenchman suffered at the hands of Claudio Pagano earlier...
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Poker News | pokernews.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... lengthy heads up match. He eliminated most of the players at the table including bracelet winner Alan Smurfit and online pro Eric Liu along the way. His 90 minute heads up match with Michael Tureniec would have seemed lengthy, were it not for the record breaking match that John Juanda had won a few days earlier at the WSOPE. But it was to be the biggest first place prize so far in...
