Day 1B of the PokerStars Baltic Festival is done. And that means day one proper - of the A and the B variety - is also at a close, giving us all we need to know for the shape of the tournament ahead. This time yesterday, it was Bo Erichsen who was leading Wednesday's pack of 130, profiting from a last-hand drama against Shaun Deeb. Today's daddy is Aleksandr Lozkin, who came through a field featuring 177 players to bag up 65,700. Aleksandr Lozkin Lozkin finished the day on the same table as another mighty stack: that of Johan Nilsson,
...more
Latest Day 1B Post
Lozkin
Baltic Festival: Lozkin prospers on day the stars came out in Tallinn
Latest Posts
Baltic Festival: Entering the final straight
The past hour has not been kind to our sports stars. Kenneth Carlsen, the Danish tennis player, was seen wandering around the tournament floor and his chair, next to Morten Ramm, was empty. Carlsen went to the other side of the tournament room, near to where Mats Sundin was sitting....more
Baltic Festival: One .. oh! .. two down from the Team
Team PokerStars Pro has lost its first representative, not just of today but of this whole tournament. Yesterday's solitary player in the familiar garb, JC Alvarado, bagged up one of the chip-leading stacks at the end of the day. And Peter Eastgate, Johnny Lodden and Katja Thater are still going...more
Baltic Festival: Winning strategies
The Swedish EPT stalwart Peter Hedlund could not make the journey to Tallinn for this week's buoyant festival, which was good news for eardrums but not so great for bar takings. In case you're unaware of his work, Hedlund is the vivacious raconteur who occasionally gets a bit too...more
Baltic Festival: A whole post of tournament housekeeping
Breaking news The full details of the prizes available this week in Tallinn have just been released. From the starting field of 307, 32 players will be paid. The top nine will get the following: 1 - €76,750 (1,197,300 EEK) 2 - €48,505 (756,693 EEK) 3 - €30 085...more
Baltic Festival: A sporting chance
The debate as to whether tournament poker qualifies as a sport is one that will continue to rumble as long as cards are shuffled. But one thing not up for discussion is the appeal this most competitive pursuits holds for established stars of more familiar sports. There has been a...more
Baltic Festival: Strategically late
Being "fashionably late" is the preserve of movie starlets, catwalk models and businessmen with ideas above their station. But recently in poker circles, the idea of being "strategically late" has taken off. At the recent High Roller event at the EPT London Festival, the Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson and...more
Baltic Festival: Stars packed on one table
We've said this is a star-studded field today, but we really didn't appreciate just how twinkling it was. I have just handed a list of notable players to our already overwhelmed photographer that dribbled onto two full sides paper. As the day progresses, we'll do our best to introduce all...more
Baltic Festival: Packing them in for day 1b
Last night in the restaurant on the 31st floor of the Swissotel - with the lights of Tallinn shimmering and blinking in a 360 degree panorama in the background - the conversation turned inevitably to the ten hours before in the conference facilities on the sixth floor, where the opening...more
Contact us
To contact the PokerStars Blog team, simply email blog@pokerstars.com. To subscribe to the PokerStars Blog RSS feed, click here. Follow us on Twitter under the handle PokerStarsBlog. Brought to you by PokerStars.com.
