Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Dam life moves pretty fast and if you don’t stop and look around once in while you could miss it. Sadalmelik bit the dust holding Ac9s to Let4ik JdJs and dam what a showdown, up comes Qh, Qs,9d,7s and Qd. You do the math…

Sadalmelik

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Well it had to happen sometime but this soon? Wow…Poor jazzhocki75 will not be going to the ball in Vienna it seems.

4erkess holding KdAh, jazzhocki75 JcJd and Kozyrd with AdKh. Long story short they all go all in after much debate. And the board reads 3s 5s Kh 8d and 10c. Split pot and early bath for jazzhocki…sorry always sucks to be the first to go….

jazzhocki75

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Another break and another chip count for you lucky lot out there:

CheckNorris 7975
Let4ik 5900
holdemsurfer 4725
4erkess 4200
jazzhocki75 3550
Kozyrd 6575
bowarrior 4025
Sadalmelik 3000

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Players are on a quick break now. We just saw our first all in from Let4ik who held AdAs, 4erkess on QdQs and Sadalmelik with 3h3d. The others quickly folded taking upto 5900. We should be getting a chip count in soon enough…

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Well the blinds just got raised to 50/100… no real big hands to report about it seems. A lot small pots and a lot of tight play by all. Here’s the chip count so far.

CheckNorris 6625

Let4ik 5175

Holdemsurfer 3000

4erkess 5100

jazzhocki75 4000

Kozyrd 4575

Bowarrior 3825

Sadalmelik 4900

bowarrior and his blue chip!

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

And there off...well almost...the starting chip stack is going to be 5000, with 25/50 blinds and 15 min intervals. So nothing unusual there then, should be a good tourney, good luck guys!

From L to R: CheckNorris, Let4ik, holdemsurfer, 4erkess, jazzhocki75, Kozyrd, bowarrior, Sadalmelik

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Well the Eurosport make up team sure have been busy making all the guys look sharp and ready for TV. Not that CheckNorris needs any help just look at that hat!

Holdemsurfer

Kozyrd

CheckNorris

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Getting ready for the shoot.

Meanwhile back at the hotel, the whole Eurosport filming crew is frantically working on transforming a usual conference room into a classy looking card room. It’s really quite amazing to see the TV crew work. I managed to sneak a few photos of the operating booth complete with pocket card cameras, very James Bondish I have to say.

The editing room, check out the cool pocket cameras!

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The gang from L to R : jazzhocki75, bowarrior, Sadalmelik, holdemsurfer, 4erkess, Let4ik.
and Kozyrd take a walk on the wild side.

PokerRoom.com and the Online Semifinal Winners for Brazil spent the whole day being pampered with VIP treatment by the kind folks at the WTCC. With unlimited access to the track, the pit lane and even the racing paddocks followed by a fuel filled lunch and goodie bags to go home with this was a great start to the weekend here in Curitiba!

Rosa shows off the detachable steering wheel system to Let4ik, bowarrior and Sadalmelik.

bowarrior tries on Jörg Muller’s of the BMW team helmet, he didn’t quite manage to hold on to it though.

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Friday, February 29th, 2008

Billy McKloski here reporting live Live LIVE! from Brazil. Well it’s fantastic sunny afternoon here in Curitiba. The players are all starting to arrive now. I managed to catch up with a few players and get just a few words out of them:

jazzhocki75 – Not giving anything away!

I qualified via the VIP GoldRoom tournament. I’d have to say my expectations are for a fair and exciting semifinal, a lot of fun and I look forward to the participants!

Right now I play lot of online Poker and not too much live Poker, but who knows perhaps this will change in the future?!

holdemsurfer – 3rd times a charm!

I played the Sit and Go Qualifiers and finished easily in the top 60. In the online-final I got really great hands in the first hour, but I was only winning small pots: But then I won a showdown with some luck, and after that my stack was getting bigger and bigger and eventually I was even the chip leader for a while.

At final table most of the time I was in the middle of the field, the last 5 was a very hard fight, as nobody wanted to be the bubble boy, so I had more and more as the blinds got higher und higher, I moved and re-raised all in with 99, the other player called and showed AK, flop AQQ and I was out at 5th position.

This was the 3rd time I missed joining PokerRoom.com at a live event the first time was for the for the WSOP in Las Vegas, the 2nd time I came 36th place at Miami Styles in Hamburg and only 30 players made it to Hamburg.

But one week later I got a call to say I’m “a lucky looser”, because some other players couldn’t travel “WOW” I though “what a fantastic surprise for me!”

Sadalmelik – Poker helps him relax

Well a little about myself my name is Eduardo and I live in a small city near Barcelona where I work as graphic designer.

I’ve been interested in Poker for a long long time. And since I discovered Poker Online it’s even easier to play now! When I take a rest from my at home it allows me to relax playing the game.

My hopes here in Curitiba are that this match provides some success to me although certainly the rest of participants will fight hard! Despite this I’d still like to send them my warm greetings and wish good luck to them all.

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