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1.15pm: Welcome to Nova Gorica

Welcome to the second leg of season one of the Eureka Poker Tour in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The PokerStars bandwagon has moved approximately 827km (513 miles in old money) south west since Keith Johnson took down the event in Prague on the 20th March, we're told he'll be here to try and go back to back.

Nova Gorica is situated just a stones throw, or a big old slap of a ice hockey puck (a very popular sport in Slovenia) from the Italian border and you don't have to go too far up one of the town's surrounding hills to be able to have a fantastic view of both Slovenia and Italy.

The Perla casino is the venue and if last nights action is anything to go by it's going to be a frenetic tournament. The super satellite generated 14 seats to the main event and there were around a dozen cash games going. One of the participants in one of those cash games was, I'm told, Peter Poles the host of Slovenia's Got Talent. He can't play in this tournament because he's hosting the semi-final of that show this weekend.

In the meantime he's keeping busy by hosting the live feed from some tournament in Madrid which is currently drawing to a conclusion. We talk of course of the EPT Grand Final. If you can bear to drag yourself away from the action here whilst not check out how the EPT Grand Final is going.

If English is not your mother tongue then there's many a translation service out there including this one

The player's are in their seats and completing the necessary waiver forms and such like, shuffle up and deal is not too far away.

PokerStars Blog reporting team at Eureka Poker Tour Nova Gorica: Nick Wright.



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