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Hand to Hand Combat: Vladimir “Beyne” Geshkenbein

Key Hands En Route to Russian Takeover

by Rebecca McAdam |  Published: Jul 01, 2011

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Vladimir Geshkenbein recently got the attention of the poker world for his performance at the European Poker Tour Snowfest. Geshkenbein snowballed his way over 481 opponents to reach the €390,000 first prize. In this special edition of Hand 2 Hand Combat, the Russian discusses two key hands from the event, and Card Player Europe also asks his opponents their thoughts on the hands in question. Hand No. 1: Vladimir Geshkenbein: Overall on day one I had a pretty nice table. It was a couple of hours into the game (but we were still deep because of the good EPT structure). I had about 120 big blinds. My image was pretty crazy, I had been opening a lot and barrelling a lot, so I was considered a bluff-monkey. So I get jacks under the gun 2 and raise ‘em up! Now the action folds to Jan Heitmann, he is sitting on ...


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