Starting day 2 was 108 players, out of the field of 387.
Ekolod1 got off to a good start and almost trippled his stack to 90K in the first level.
Not so lucky was Ivar44, who was all in for the first time in the tourney since he had had such a good stack all the time, and then he busted on this very first occasion.
Best of all the Potraiser players was Hans Erlandsson and Jesper “Luxxxing” Persson doing, as they both got up over 300K pretty quick.
After about 2 hour Lukas “ChilledOne” Bäumer was eliminated, as was Steffen “uldahl” Nielsen.

About an hour before the dinner break our team pro “Zuberr” played a really big pot when he reraised preflop with JJ, and eventually wound up all in on a 9 high flop, this was a 400K pot that unfortunately was lost to Zuberr’s opponent holding QQ.

As the dinnerbreak approached the players were getting knocked out pretty quick, and when it was time for the break it was a peculiar situation.
The tournament went on break with 46 players remaining, and 45 prizes was to be paid.
2 of the players had less than the big blind, and now had to wait another hour before their fate was to be decided.

On the second hand right after the dinnerbreak player 46 was knocked out, and Potraiser still had 4 players left.
These were:
Jesper “Luxxxing” Persson
Albert “Ekolod1″ Rolander
Isac “ihave0uts” Berglund
Hans “rennieweno” Erlandsson

Right after the bubble had burst Ekolod1 was eliminated holding A7 and getting his all in called by 22 preflop, the board came down xxxA2, so he was certainly a bit dissapointed to see this last deuce on the river.
Ekolod1 atleast cashed for €1900, and as he is the team manager and still had a few teamplayers in the tournament
he was not dissapointed for long at least.

Albert “Ekolod1″ Rolander

The shortstacked players were now eliminated in a quite fast pace, as many had been waiting for the bubble to bust.
The field was down to 25 players pretty quick.

Hans Erlandsson made a really big reraise all in against Jesper “Luxxxing” Persson, when he tried to represent a flush that was made possible on the turn.
The problem for Hans was that Jesper had raised the pot preflop with 6 3 of diamonds, and flopped a straight and then made a flush when the third diamond landed. Jesper didn’t look to happy to call Hasses huge all in reraise, but did so anyway and wound up winning a monterous pot of 800K.
Jesper actually made a straight flush on the river in this pot as well.
Hans Erlandsson was left with just a few chips after this pot, and then he looked like he was making an amazing comeback as he got his stack up to around 100K again after some aggressive play.
Unfortunately this was not Hasse’s day, as he was eliminated in spot 21, after dominating the field as the chipleader for the better part of the day.
With 2 tables left things was looking good for team Potraiser. Isac “ihaveouts” Berglund was up to about 600K at one point, and Jesper “Luxxing” Persson was the chipleader sitting on a impressive stack of around 1,3 million.

Jesper “Luxxxing” Persson

The day ended in a not so funny way as both Jesper and Isac were eliminated almost at the same time in places 10 and 11, and the play was stopped for the day as the final 9 were complete.
Jesper got all his chips in with AK and was called by a Finnish player holding JJ that held up. Jesper had been a bit unlucky in a couple of pots earlier, and had doubled up quite a few players before the decisive hand came up.
Isac was on a short stack and pushed all in preflop with K7 from the button and was called by KQ in the small blind.
The hopes for Isac went up when he spiked a seven on the turn, but it was not to be as the river was a queen that sent Isac out of the tourney as well.

Isac “ihave0uts” Berglund

All in all team Potraiser really showed thet we have a stong team, with 3 teamplayers getting in to the money in this event.
Of course there is always going to be a bit of dissapointment when we are so close to having 2 players making the final table, and then both of them are knocked out as players 10 and 11. Sometimes the pokergods just deliver these kind of bad news and thats part of the game of course.
Isac took home around €6K, and Jesper got a bit more with around €6,5K, so atleast it was a good payday for our 2 best players of the tournament.

Team Manager
Albert ” Ekolod1″ Rolander

The day started with 387 players putting up the €1100 to play at the beatutiful casino, and this was to be a really good day for Potraiser ProTeam.

The day started out quite slow, but with Potraiser players building their stack steadily.
At the dinner break only 2 Potraiser players had been eliminated out of 13, and this was Simba84, and TAKE_MANEY.
A few was running really good, with Jesper “Luxxxing” Persson doing best of them all.

Soon after the dinner break also ullis14 and AILL were eliminated and in level 9 we lost donkykIonk.
But now to the good stuff.
Still in it to day 2 is the following players:
Luxxxing 160K
Zuberr 91K
Uldahl 88K
ChilledOne 67K
ihave0uts 105K
Yeahbunny* 45K
Ivar44 70K
Ekolod1 34K

Another Potraiser player doing well is Hans Erlandsson who is going in to day 2 with 165K, and this is impressive indeed, as Hans also managed to win the sideevent that started the day before, and spent the first couple of hours of the main event finishing up on that final table. Obviously he is still in his best of form, since he is now one of the chipleaders going in to day 2 at the main event as well.
Hannes Rask has 65K with him after day 1, and FishLars is shortstack, but he still has 15K.

110 players survived day 1, and the averange stack is 70K.
There is still 11 players playing for Potraiser, so we are very happy that so many of our players is still in, and we hope for all the best for the guys tomorrow when we will be shooting for the money.

I will post another blog with some pictures tomorrow, so look out here for updates.

Team Manager
Ekolod1

Potraiser Pro Team is in Campione Italia this weekend for event 4 of the European Masters of Poker season 2.

The tournament is to be played at the beautiful Casino di Campione that is located right by the Lugano sea, and has their poker room at the top floor with a magnificent view of the sea and the surrounding area.

From the Pro Team the following players will be playing in this tourney.
Ekolod1 (Manager)
uldahl
Luxxxing
Zuberr
ihave0uts
Simba84
TAKE_MANEY
ullis14
AILL
donkykIonk
Ivar44
ChilledOne

Also appearing for Potraiser in this tourney is the following players that have qualified through the site, or who has bought in directly:
Royal1710P
Rennieweno
thx_man
Yeahbunny*
hannesrask
FishLars

The event will start at 14:00 with all players starting on the same starting day.
Look out here on the blog, and at our videos for updates during the weekend.
May the poker gods be with all players representing Potraiser in this tourney, and hopefully we will have some good news to report.

For now
Team Manager, Ekolod1

Starting on June 1st the winner of the EMOP Gran Canaries in January, Maciej Lipny from Poland will be joining Potraiser Pro Team.
24 year old Maciej Lipny now joins Krzysztof Grubka as the second Polish player in the team.

Maciej is one of the guys who really started his poker careerer from nothing. In July 2007 he entered a poker quiz on a poker site, and won his first $30.
In just a few months he had transformed the $30 to a couple of thousand, and he hasn’t looked back since then.
Today you can meet him on the shorthanded tables at Potraiser under the nick Yeahbunny*, mainly on NL400 but often higher up to NL1000.

Maciejs dream came true when he went on his first tournament of the European Masters of Poker in Gran Canaries. He eliminated all other players with interesting aggressive play and finally won the tournament, and took home €66.000.

Team Manager Albert Rolander says:
-I first noticed Maciej at EMOP in Gran Canaries, where he obviously was successful. Since Potraiser wants to grow in other markets than Scandinavia, we think it’s really good that we now have recruited one of the most talented players from Poland
And then our second signing.
Potraiser and JP.Heimonen have reach an understanding that put JP. in action in the Potraiser clothes already at European Masters of Poker in Campione this upcoming weekend.

25 year old JP. Heimonen is maybe more know for his online alias Jheimon that has been a constant force at the cashgames tables on Entraction.
Heimonen himself describes himself as a player with a different, game centric approach to 6 max cash games, and is one of the biggest winners at NL200 at Entraction. JP. will be playing at Potraiser under the nick: TAKE_MANEY

JP. Heimonen has already made some results in live eventas as well, with the final table apperances at Helsinki Midnight Sun in June 2009, and Finnish Open Championship of Poker in August of 2009.

CEO, Fredrik Rahnasto comments:
- JP. Heimonen is a really good ambassador for Potraiser. We are very glad to have such a player to represent us in Finland, since Finland is allready one of our most important markets.

Maciej Lipny                             JP. Heimonen
Look out ont this site by the weekend, there will be updates regarding JP, and also how all the rest of the team will be doing in EMOP Italy.Bye for now

Team Manager, “Ekolod1″

Our Very own ProTeam player Jens Lindbladh has been recruited as an video instructor by the site called pokercampus.se

At www.pokercampus.se you can watch several good players making instruction videos of their play.
A few videos are free to watch, and other recuire a membership.

Jens “donkykIonk” Lindbladh

Jens is one of the best low/midstakes players at Entraction at 6 max tables.
Regarding the video Jens says:
In this video I show some of my tips on how to take advantage of tight grinders with loose aggressive play, and how to use Holdem Manager in practice while playing.

The Video is in Swedish and can be wiewed here

Team Potraiser sent 5 players to participate in the Paradise Poker Tour in Madrid.
The players representing Potraiser this time were Steffen Uldahl Nielsen, Henrik Kask, Isac Berglund, Albert Rolander and finally Ida Lundholm who was to make her debut as a teamplayer.
Also joining us for this trip was Henrik Torstensson, who was the winner of our VIP2000 tourney in April and won this package.

The team wandering around in Madrid

Unfortunatelly the tourney was not one of the ProTeams best performances, as all 5 player were knocked out during day1.
It was a well organized tourney at a nice venue (Gran Casino Madrid), and the organizers managed to assemble a field of 251 players who put up the entry fee of €550.

We will be returning to the casino today to try our luck at the cashgames tables instead.
One really funny thing here in Madrid is that cashgames poker is played counter clockwise, but tournament poker is played the regular way.
I asked the poker room manager why this is so, and got the response “this is Spain”.

For the first time I have also made a short videoblog of some of the things happening during this weekend.
Check it out under our new video page at the ProTeam page here