I said in my earlier post that EPT Prague has not been a big sucess for Team RedKings, that is now a big lie. When the Main Event was over so quick for the team, they all wanted to play some side events, and what a sucess!

In the €2200 euro side event, the day started with that we had two RedKings players in the top 5 by 18 players. Ramzi Jelassi and Jonas “Molle” Molander where the guys who should keep up Team RedKings pride here in Prague, and did they? YES! More than you ever could imagine.

It started out with that both of them had an easy way to the finaltable, no big problems to get into the top 9,

Ramzi Won 129 000€! Molle got away with 30 000€!

and now they were both going for the win. Player after player left the table, but we wtill had our RedKings Swedes at the table when we were down to FOUR players!

The structure was very fast in the end and when Molle went out as the 4th place finisher he still was happy and ruding for his team colleague Ramzi who were the chipleader. They got out another player pretty fast and we got to a Heads Up between an unknown Norwegian guy and the superstar Ramzi Jelassi. I am now going to tell you about a call that even would make Doyle Brunson and Phil Ivey stupid.

The norweigan guy was very aggresive and raised most of the pots. One pot Ramzi decides to call and the flop comes out 9 - 7 - 2 all in different colors. The norweigan guys puts all his chips in the pot, Ramzi thinks a little and says “call” and flips up A-10 for ACE high! And the norweigan guy just wants to hide his face when he shows J-3 for nothing! No help on the turn or River and we got our RedKing to be a real King! His comment just after winning the tournament is:
“Everything I know, I have learned at RedKings!”

Ramzi went away happy with €129 000 euro, by beating 200 players who paid €2200 to play. Molle was also happy since he got €30 000 for playing this 2 day tournament.

Congratulations to Ramzi Jelassi and Jonas “Molle” Molander! You really are RedKings!

When RedKings started to get lucky, I thought they would go on that wave for a long time. But Toni had to move all in with 10-J, but when the Big Blind had A-Qs there was not much to do. No help on the flop, turn and not even on the river.

To be honest I don’t really have any words for how this day went for the Team RedKings. No big success is my last oppinion.

The next stop will be in Helsinki for some of the Team, you will be able to Qualify for this tournament online at RedKings.com. The live event qualifier will be on the 11th of January and the Helsinki Freezeout starts at the 14th of January.

Until then, Good Luck Online and have a great Christmas and New years eve!

Best Regards,
Jerry and the whole Team RedKings!

Finally! This is the absolutely first time a Team RedKings player gets a bit lucky. Toni kept his word with moving all in every hand, he did it with Q9.. Got a caller, with KK. Toni loves women, and they love him because the Q9 was pretty good when the flop showed 8-10-J. This nut straight did hold up all the way and now we see Toni up on 7,500 in Chips and he will probably find some more queens to get him up to a even bigger stack.

“I am the best of the RedKings players, so the only logic thing is that I win” he says while he showels the chips his way.

More All-ins to come..

After a chat with Toni in the 15 minuters break, I understand that we will have some big action the coming hour. His statement of pushing all in every hand is maybe not 100% true, but he will as soon he’s got an OK hand. We now have 138 player left from day 1B, and of those players we have Toni Ojala carrying the RedKings flag as good as he can.

So, stay tuned and you will get more info about Tonis crazy all-in play that is coming up. He has now got 4000 in chips which is 10 Big Blinds on the 200/400 level.

I can only wish him good luck and some good cards! We know Toni has got up from this kind of trouble before

Why is Poker a game and not a lottery? We have another RedKings player who goes out after having a big percentage of winning after getting all the chips in the middle of the pot.

This time it is the other Swede, Jonas “Molle” Molander who got unlucky. He flops the nuts (The best possible hand that a player can have combined with the board). He gets all the chips in with his flopped straight, and gets a caller of a guy that has hit his set and  of course the board gets paired on the absolutely last card, the river.. A big pot that should have gone RedKings way, but instead we will find Molle in the bar all night talking about his bad beat to anyone that listens..

Now, go Finland, go Toni and GO TEAM REDKINGS!

Toni has been playing really good poker today, he just got unlucky with having the Kings when the opponent had the Aces. At that time he was down to 2,5k. From that he has been going really strong and he got up to 14k without showing ONE hand! That means skill.

He had this 14k, before he lost a big pot against his fellow finnish friend, on a 9 - J - K flop, Toni calls his opponents bet, but he decides to not call on the turn where he folds and shows a K at the same time as he says something like “satans perkelä” in Finnish.

He is now down to about 5,5k.. BUT toni is always a fighter and he is going to do all finnish tricks that is in

A RedKing - Molle

the book to get up his chips again.

Molle has changed table, which he didn’t really like, some more famous faces, like the Swedish grandfather Christer Johansson. He’s got about 11,000 in chips. But when he starts to play we all know that it could go fast up.

Two of the player is now inofficially better than the Danish WSOP Champion Peter Eastgate because he just

Peter Eastgate, winner of WSOP - Out

went out of the tournament. With this in their back they feel that nothing can stop them, and now they both are going for the first price of 774,000€.

There will be 56 players ending up with getting some money out of playing this 4 day tournament.

Chip Counts:
Jonas “Molle” Molander 11,000
Toni Ojala 8,000

So does Toni and Molle, Toni has taken his 2,5k stack and built it up to a small tower that has a value of 7500.

The Finnish Champion - Toni Ojala

Just by playing his game, and I asked him if he felt confident for the rest of the tournament, as the confident finn he is the answer was an easy “Yes”. He also says that his table is a pretty good table without any really well known player, so to see a Toni Ojala in the chiplead at the end of the day is more possible than impossible.

Molle was up on 15-16k, but have lost some smaller pots now and is back on the start stack of 10 000 chips. The blinds are 100/200 and we will soon go into a break.

The start for the Team has been a bit shaky…

Csaba Toth - out

It started out with that our hungarian pro Csaba Toth starts to eat a fish, it ended up with that the fish got lucky and Csaba out of the tournament.

Little bit more detailed on what happened:
Csaba gets dealt AK, one player raises, the “fish” calls and Csaba makes a re-raise, he only gets called by the fish. Flop is K-crap-crap, after some betting it goes to showdown where Csaba is in a big lead with his AK against the opponents KJ. Csaba feels relieved, until the turn who shows a J, only a Ace can save him now, but another J shows on the river and Csaba goes tilted away to the Cash Games tables..

Ramzi Jelassi - out

This is not enough, Ramzi Jelassi also got killed with the same hand AK. He gets all the chips in against QQ, and gets a flip for a big stack. No help on the board and another RedKings player goes out..

So, 2 players left, Toni Ojala and Jonas “Molle” Molander.. Toni started with building a big stack up to 15k, this doesn’t help when you get dealt two Kings and gets all the chips in the middle against AA, down to 2.5k.

Molle is just watching his table and not making any big moves, and has a stack of 8.000..

Go Toni, Go Molle, GO RedKings!

Here you will be able to follow Team RedKings in EPT Prague by Pokerstars.net, with interviews pictures and chipcounts.

We have four players in the tournament, the finnish champion Toni Ojala, the two talented swedes Ramzi Jelassi and Jonas “Molle” Molander, and the online champ Csaba Toth!

They are all playing in day 1B, who just got under way with around 300 players. Yesterday it was around 270 players who got down to around 80 in the end of the day who all will compete with the RedKings players that goes through to day 2.

More to come….