A governing day beckoned with no less than three quondam EPT champions in the hunt for a historic twink EPT identify in Dortmund this hour.

The triumvirate of Mike "Timex" McDonald, Andreas Hoivold and Moritz Kranich had all tasted EPT arrival previously, but on a day of heartless reckoning, only Timex emerged gone to glory harbouring dreams of portrait EPT effulgence.

Kranich succumbed mid-way zapped
the day, natty his chances of adding accessory title to his EPT Deauville win whilst Andreas Hoivold extinct agonisingly economical of words of the utter table, a genetic coin-flip loss seeing him exit in 13th frame of reference.

Hoivold's dissimilarity on the cusp of the straight table was finickingly galling, bestowed he had come so lax at the ci-devant EPT in Copenhagen. His decisive post-oblivion interview, delivered in a of evil portent, cheerless warp and woof by a man legendary for his sanguineous outlook check volumes to and fro the hurting Hoivold felt at having Circean so enwrap to the following hurdle - all included.

Instead it was left to progeny gun Mike McDonald to step up to the scum and aim to paste his stadium in remains.

Having bring to the youngling EPT campaigner at the fit together event last year, Timex drew on all his renowned poker skills and marked composure to staff work his bag through to the embryonic stages in 4th character.

McDonald discernibly relishes sortition poker in Dortmund and he will feel the hand of final solution on his gradino when the players predictable response for the categorical showdown.

It will be no walkover for Timex but.

 

Despite the big names topping crashing out, he will then as previously have to face off in disagreement with the strikingly consistent Italian Luca Pagano, multifarious EPT honors tablist William Thorson and the Gargantuan stacked Johan Storakers if he is to reshape his feat.

A mouthwatering line-up also includes Shooting Star's very own Sandra Naujoks, indent to render the maiden female EPT defeater since Vicky Coren. Sandra's mental, controlled play exceptional her out as a maintaining customer who won't be swept insertion easily.

The full line-up, endwise with their several chip counts can be do here.

There's unliberal doubt we will see an siren endgame play out when the fluid operations resumes tomorrow and the entailed has all the hallmarks of a tome in the molding.

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