2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

€5,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
87
Prize
€774,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Entries
570
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
8,000

Massimo Di Cicco Doubles Through

Massimo Di Cicco
Massimo Di Cicco
Well, we're back, and it didn't take too long for us to witness an all in, Massimo Di Cicco pushing his remaining stack of 233,000 across the line with {K-Clubs}{9-Clubs} and being looked up by Fredrik Nygard's {K-Spades}{J-Spades}.

As has been the story of this final table, the dominated hand came up trumps, flopping a pair on a {3-Spades}{9-Spades}{3-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} board to send the Italian contingent of the rail into an absolute frenzy.

Tags: Fredrik NygardMassimo Di Cicco

Level: 25

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 3,000

Current Chip Counts

Salvatore Bonavena (Italy) -- 925,000
A Konstantinos (Greece) -- 2,026,000
Francesco Cirianni (Italy) -- 658,000
Fredrik Nygard (Finland) -- 670,000
Massimo Di Cicco (Italy) -- 242,000
[Removed:197] (Germany) -- 7th
Raul Mestre (Spain) -- 8th
Andrew Alan Chen (Canada) -- 1,166,000

Battle of the Scarves

The winning scarf
The winning scarf
After a day of mostly folding, Francesco Cirianni burst into life and pushed all in over the top of Salvatore Bonavena's opening raise of 68,000. It was 246,000 more to call.

"He must have a hand," screamed the commentary team, but their views were wayward as Bonavena made the call with {A-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} only to see his fellow countryman turn over {J-Clubs}{8-Hearts}.

"Wow," was the general response.

As turquoise took on brown in the battle of the scarves, it was the latter who triumphed as the board came {5-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{3-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} to see Cirianni enjoy a pre-dinner break double through.

"Fortune favours the bulk," concluded the Nick Wetherall in the commentary booth.

Tags: Francesco CirianniSalvatore Bonavena

Check-Raise From Bonavena

Andrew Alan Chen raised to 57,000 and Salvatore Bonavena made the call. On the {9-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}, Chen continue bet for 72,000 but was raised to 200,000 by the Italian. Chen immediately threw his cards into the muck.

Chen takes the next one though when he makes it 57,000 to play and even Alexiou Konstantinos doesn't want to play this time.

Tags: Salvatore Bonavena

One For The Short Stack

Salvatore Bonavena raises to 72,000 and Massimo Di Cicco moves all in for a total of 212,000 and it's passed back to the other Italian. It's about 140,000 to call to win a 338,000 pot.

John Duthie is heard on the commentary: "He's got to call, he's got to call, he's got to call..."

Bonavena folds.

Tags: Massimo Di CiccoSalvatore Bonavena