Germans all at sea in prop bet bid

We've lost over 40 players already from the original field of 179, and among them was at least one star man in Germany's bid to win the ParadisePoker prop bet.

David "Didfish" Pishvafar (pictured right), who went deep in Season One's Madrid event, failed to replicate his success west of the border but stopped short of blaming some bizarre preparations.

Pishvafar was part of a German expedition to go deep sea fishing on Friday and the omens were poor from the off, as many of the makeshift crew succumbed to sea sickness.

"No comment," he laughed when asked if it might have affected his performance in the PPT Vilamoura.

"No I was ok today. I thought it would be a relaxing day out in the middle of the ocean, chilling out with a few beers and catching some fish, but the boat just never stopped moving.

"A few of my friends were really sick and I felt really bad, but at least I didn't vomit!"

To his credit, the German player was refusing to use his sea legs as an excuse for a Day One exit as had even less luck with poker's own brand of fish in the Casino Vilamoura.

"I played a little crazy today, three-betting and leading flops a little too much," he admitted, "I did win a few hands like that though.

"I lost a lot of chips in a hand with A-10 when I was defending my sb. We both checked an Ace on the flop, which led me to think I had the best hand, bet the turn and when he raised, we got it all in.

"That left me with 20bbs and I squeezed with 10s, only to be called by KQ and lose the race. I thought he'd be able to fold hands like that, but that's the way it goes."

Meanwhile, his fellow Germans have had mixed fortunes so far, with German poker magazine editor Jan-Peter Jachtmann also suffering an early exit.

Having endured had a sizeable dent in his stack with AQ vs AK, the Poker Bluff journalist saw his dream J-9-Q flop turn into a nightmare, as his Q10 ran into K10.

Robert Haigh, who joined ParadisePoker in Vegas for the WSOP, was surviving on the starting stack and admitted there was some tough competition on his table.