During this level two big poker profiles has joined Ivo’s table, it is the Norweigan girl Anette Obrestad and the 2008 World Champion Peter Eastgate. There has been a battle going on between Ivo and Anette, first Ivo raised to 75.000, and Anette pushed all-in for 600.000, that time Ivo folded.

A few hands later when Anette already had lost a few pots and was down to 250.000, she moved all-in, Ivo in the position after called.
Anette Obrestad _Kh _Qd
Ivo Donev _Ah _Kd

Flop _6c _Ac _2c. Ivo far ahead.
Turn _5s
River _7h

Ivo takes down the pot and takes out Anette in 17th position, we are now down to our last 2 tables and 16 players in EPT London by pokerstars.com.

Ivo Donev 1.400.000
Average chip stack 1.368.000

Level 23 just ended, and we got some Ivo action in the last hand before the break. Ivo was in the SB, and raised 55.000, the player in the BB called. Flop _8c _3h _7c. Ivo bets 91.000, and again gets called. Turn _Qh, Ivo again bets, this time 150.000, and now the player in the BB folds. Ivo shows exclusively for the RedKings cam that he had _Jh _8d, with a pair of 8s.

Ivo is still on his A-game, and his chip stack is showing just that, Ivo’s got 1.240.000 with 19 players left, the average is at 1.152.600..

Looking good! Now, don’t forget to congratulate Ivo and wish him good Luck!

We like our players, and we like our readers, we think that our readers like our players so just to get it confirmed we are here making a mix of it all!

We will tonight host a “Well Played Ivo $500 freeroll”, where the only thing you need to do is to write a comment to the blog where you congratulate Ivo and wish him good luck, a suggestion is “Congratulations and Good Luck Ivo!”, it doesn’t matter to what post it is, just don’t forget to write your RK username as well, so we will let you in to the freeroll!

The password will be released when Ivo tells me that he is happy with the support from all the Team RedKings supporters, not a second before that!

Info about tournament:
Name: Ivo $500 FR – Namn: Ivo $500 FR
Date: 06/10/2009 – Datum: 06/10/2009
Time: 21:00CET – Tid: 21:00 CET
Place: Special Tabs – Plats “Specials” tabben
Prise poole: $500 Guaranteed

Let’s start commenting!

They have now been playing for about 40 minutes and during this period Ivo has been involved in two hands. First he raised UTG to 55.000, and everybody folds, Ivo shows _As _Kc for the crowd.

A few hands after this the player on the button raises to 60.000, Ivo decides to only look at one of his cards and he sees _As and with only that information he decides to re-raise to 180.000. The player on the button folds, and first now Ivo looks at the other card and sees another _Ah and shows the bullets for the table.

He was a bit disappointed on himself, because he was going to make a trap if he knew he had the two aces, but his opponent did probably not have a good hand anyway, and a pot is always a pot. Ivo Donev is around 1.100.000 in chips..

We are down to 22 players..

EPT London by pokerstars.com is the biggest live poker tournament in UK ever, no other tournament has had 730 contesters, and out of these 730 we have 24 left and 1 of them is a Team RedKings player, Ivo Donev.

Ivo has fought through this big field for 3 days already, and he now got the 8th biggest chip stack of the last 24. They have just started day 4, and Ivo is seated at this table:
Michael Berry UK 1,837,000
Rodrigo Caprioli Brazil 1,647,000
Ivo Donev Austria 1,062,000
Theo Tran USA 991,000
Dominic Cullen UK 622,000
Martin Gudvangen Norway 590,000
Kevin Schaffel USA WSOP finalist 377,000
Philip Byers USA 344,000
Jonathan Weekes UK 272,000

There is a lot of short stacks, so hopefully Ivo can get some cards and knock one or two out, and continue his road against the final table!

Good Luck to The Chessmaster!

Ivo Donev is one of the 24 best players out of the 730 starting in EPT London. He has taken his chip stack to 1.062.000 and is right now over average and in the higher region of all the chip stacks.

Ivo has as he said himself played his A-game today, without any bigger problems, and any big risks. Ivo is right now number 8 in chips..

Ivo is not the only star who has qualified for the last three tables, we also have:
Benjamin Spindler, 1.110.000
Anette Obrestad, 730.000
Theo Tran, 991.000
Peter Eastgate, 988.000

They are all guaranteed £17.000 and they will come back here tomorrow at 12:00 to play down to the official final table of 8 players, I hope I see you all here then!

I just told you that Ivo got his first _As _Ah in the last level, but no one wanted to play. This time Ivo raised to 43.000 in middle position, the player on the button pushed all-in for about 350.000, everybody else folded and Ivo didn’t hesitate for a second and called.

Ivo Donev _As _Ad
Opponent _Qh _Qd

Flop _4d _Jc _7d
Turn _2d
River _7s

Ivo takes the player out in 26th position and we are now down to 25 players, and we only need 1 more to go out and the day has come to an end.

Ivo Donev, 900.000
Average Chip stack, 843.600

Ivo Ivo Ivo!

As you can see there is not much action, Ivo hasn’t been involved in any bigger hands, he has won a few blinds. He got his first _As _Ah during the whole tournament in the end of the last level, but no one wanted to play with him, so he only won the blinds.

We have 27 players left, with an average stack of 811.000, Ivo has got 588.000 in front of him. The blinds has gone up to 10.000/20.000 and the ante is at 2.000, meaning that there is 46.000 chips in the pot pre-flop.

3 more players needs to lose all their chips, and then the other 24 players will battle on the last three tables tomorrow..

Stay tuned for the last action of the day!

It is not going very fast now, we have had 36 players in the tournament the last 60 minutes, and during those 60 minutes Ivo has lost a few smaller pots taking him down to 500.000.

We have started level 21, with blinds of 8.000/16.000 and an ante of 1.000.

Ivo is still keeping track of all his hands..

We are down to 36 players, meaning that only 12 more needs to go and the final three tables are set. Ivo is keeping his stack over the average, he is around 720.000, and the average stack is at 608.300. John Juanda has left the tournament, so Ivo is taking over as the table captain.

Other famous players chip stacks:
Anette Obrestad, 970.000
Theo Thran, 800.000
Peter Eastgate, 140.000
Benjamin Spindler, 1.200.000

Go Ivo!