€5,250 Championship Main Event | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

Level: 24

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 3,000

12-13-2008 17:42 UTC+2

Cirianni Kost Some Chips

[user76023]

Raise to 72,000 from Francesco Cirianni and Alexiou Konstantinos calls from the big blind. The flop is {6-Clubs}

and Konstantinos instantly moves in, Cirianni looks pained and folds, saying he had {A-?}

. Konstantinos declares he was holding {J-?}

Tags: Alexiou Konstantinos Francesco Cirianni

12-13-2008 17:49 UTC+2

Salvatore Bonavena (Italy) -- 1,163,000
Alexiou Konstantinos (Greece) -- 2,131,000
Francesco Cirianni (Italy) -- 491,000
Fredrik Nygard (Finland) -- 473,000
Massimo Di Cicco (Italy) -- 228,000
[Removed:197] (Germany) -- out in 7th place
Raul Mestre (Spain) -- out in 8th place
Andrew Alan Chen (Canada) -- 1,201,000

12-13-2008 17:53 UTC+2

Czeching it Down

[user4144]

Alexiou Konstantinos raised to 50,000 and Salvatore Bonavena flat-called. The {8-Diamonds}

board was the checked down to the river, Konstantinos taking the pot with {5-Clubs}

.

12-13-2008 17:58 UTC+2

Di Cicco Struggling

[user4144]

Massimo Di Cicco called a preflop bet from Alexiou Konstantinos of 52,000, before folding to a bet of 45,000 on the {A-Diamonds}

flop. With a quarter of his stack gone in that one hand, Di Cicco now has less than 200,000 and remains the current short-stack.

Tags: Massimo Di Cicco

12-13-2008 18:06 UTC+2

Ny-Guarded On The River

[user76023]

Chen limps in on the small blind, Nygard checks.

{A-Clubs}

Chen bets 25,000 and Nygard calls. Both players check the {7-Spades}

turn and

with Nygard saying, "No value bet," showing {Q-Spades}

and Chen mucks.

Next hand Massimo Di Cicco moves in for around 140,000 but gets no callers.

Tags: Andrew Alan Chen Fredrik Nygard Massimo Di Cicco

12-13-2008 18:08 UTC+2

Small, But Crucial Pot

[user4144]

Alexiou Konstantinos and Massimo Di Cocco see a cheap {9-Clubs}

flop. Both players check, but Di Cocco snaps up a crucial pot with a bet of 30,000 on the {5-Clubs}

turn.

Tags: Massimo Di Cocco

12-13-2008 18:15 UTC+2

One For The Short Stack

[user76023]

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 Cicco Salvatore Bonavena

12-13-2008 18:18 UTC+2

Check-Raise From Bonavena

[user4144]

Andrew Alan Chen raised to 57,000 and Salvatore Bonavena made the call. On the {9-Hearts}

, 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