There is not very much to say about Toni the latest hour, he has changed table once, won some blinds, and some small pots, this action puts him on about 60.000 in chips. That is now a little bit below the average that is equal to 78.700. There is 82 players left, only 18 more that needs to go out to get Toni into the money.

Toni is sitting on a table without any superstars, except himself, so again he just needs some hands and he will move upwards in the chip counts..

Go on Toni!

We have soon been playing for 4 hours on day 2 in EPT Deauville by Pokerstars.net. We have got rid of more than half of the field that started today, and we are down to 111 players, the average stack is 58.000 which is about what Toni right now has in his stack..

More interesting is that Christian Heich goes through to day 4 in the Aussie Millions, as 2nd in chips! You can only get more and more impressed by the champ Christian. You will get more information about him later tonight, as we are right now doing an interview with him. Christian has 880.000 chips to bring him in a very large bag for tomorrow, where he is going to meet these guys:

Table 11
Seat 1 Hoi Cheung - 370,000
Seat 2 Dixon Ruecker - 318,000
Seat 3 Kelly Kim - 380,000
Seat 4 Barny Boatman - 153,000
Seat 5 Christian Heich - 880,000
Seat 6 Sorel Mizzi - 293,000

More about Christian later, and very soon more about Toni!

Toni still has around 55.000 in chips, with about 130 players left in the tournament. He just changed table when his old one got broken up, and all the players moved to other tables. Toni now plays against Joao Barbosa, who won the EPT Warzaw tournament this season, he is playing aggressively, and that man is to watch out for…

Just when I got down to Tonis table, I got some action.. Toni raises to 3.500, and gets a re-raise to 7.000. Toni scratches his stubble before he announces “All-In”, the opponent makes an instant fold and says that he had AJ. Everybody at the table tries to get some information from Toni, but he is just mind playing them all by giving them different answers..

Toni has around 53.000 in chips, and yesterday after day 1b he said “I am going to the final table”. So there will be a lot of action in this blog the coming days!

Unfortunately there was no action for Toni in this hand, and he has around 55.000 in chips. There are 147 players still in the tournament, and the average stack is 44.000. The players are now on a 15 minutes break, and when they come back from the break the blinds will raise to 800/1200 with an ante of 100..

As I just said in my previous post we wanted Toni to get some good hands, and Toni always listens to my advices. Toni was on the dealer position, picked up two Jacks and bets 3x BB, the Big Blind decides to put all his chips into the pot, which equals exactly as many chips that Toni has. Toni knows that the guy in the Big Blind is a maniac so he calls.

Toni shows his two Jacks proudly, and his opponent shows AJ, which means Toni is in a big lead. No ace shows on the flop…..turn…..or on the river! And Toni doubles up and now has about 60.000 in chips. This put him in a very good position for the coming levels.

Stay tuned for more action!

EPT Deauville by pokerstars.net has now started its second day, we started the day with 243 players and we are already after 1 hour down to almost 200 players! So it has started in a turbo speed, which is understandable since the blinds just got up to 500/1000 with an ante of 100, which means that it costs 2400 to play a round of poker.

So, to the more interesting parts, Toni Ojala! Toni hasn’t had any spectacular hands yet, and is down to about 28.000 in chips, which is around average. We hope that he can get some cards, because the table he is at is pretty wild with all ins and re-re raises all the time. He is still patient while he is sitting there sipping on his Coca Cola Light..

Soon you will get some good news from the Aussie Millions, and also about Toni!

So, day 1b has ended, and out of the three players we had starting we now have 1 player who made it through to the second day, our pro Toni Ojala.

Toni will bring 31.500 with him to the second day, where he will play together with 247 other players. Toni has had an day without any bad beats, and just moving up in chips during the whole day. It will be interesting to see what Toni can do tomorrow with a stack that is over the average.

Tomorrow there will also be more about Christian Heich and Veli-Pekka Penttinen in the Aussie Million Main Event. It will be very exciting, because at the re-draw for day 3 it became official that they are going to be at the very same table!

Table 8
Seat 1: Bodo Sbrzesny - 110000
Seat 2: Velipekka T Penttinen - 79800
Seat 3: Brett D Murtagh - 164400
Seat 4: Christian Heich - 168500
Seat 5: Zachary A Gruneberg - 188500
Seat 6: William J Zemljaric - 323000
Seat 7: Hoi W Cheung - 85900
Seat 8: Natan Meylakh - 191500

So, I hope you will come back tomorrow, there will be a lot of action!

The last level for the day is now about to start, we have Toni Ojala still in the tournament, he went down to around 24.000, when this hand came..

UTG makes a raise 4x BB, 3 players calls, one of them Toni. Flop comes out K-x-x, the UTG raiser checks, so does Toni and one of the callers, the last caller makes a bet of 1800. Toni is the only one calling, and the river shows J, Toni checks and so does his opponent. The river comes out an ace, Toni bets out the potsize of 7.000, the opponent is thinking a bit and folds. Toni mucks and takes down the pot. Toni told me after the pot that he had JJ, and turned the set, but he also said that he knew he lead already on the flop because he had a read on the opponent he was playing against.

Toni is now up to 31.000 with one hour left of day 1B. Looks like Toni will have to go up “early” tomorrow again to play day 2!

Toni is at the same table as he has been for the whole day, and of course he still likes it. You can also see that by looking at his chips, he now is up to 28.000 in chips, and the average in the tournament is 19.700. We started the day with 345 players, and we now have 179 players still in the tournament after six levels. Next level is just about to start, with 200/400 blinds and 50 in ante.

The EPT Deauville by Pokerstars.net, has so far been a big success, it has a record of participants in the EPT this season (if you don’t count in the PCA). 645 people paid in the €5000 + €300 euro to join. The winner will get €851.400, and of course we hope that is going to be a Finn, named Toni Ojala.

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