2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
€850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€3,832,000
Entries
479
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Rahman Noodles ElkY

Who da Rah-man?
Who da Rah-man?
A small but perfectly formed crowd of media personnel appeared around the table as Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier raised to 3,700 and Samer Rahman to his immediate left called.

Flop: {6-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {A-Hearts}

ElkY bet out 4,700 and Rahman called again.

Both players checked the {3-Spades} turn and come the {4-Clubs} river ElkY checked again. Rahman now bet 7,500, and ElkY folded as the media personnel dispersed.

Rahman is up to 200,000.

Tags: ElkYSamer Rahman

Lex Sends Opponent Into Torture Rack

Out of the corner of our eye, we saw Lex Veldhuis putting all of his chips in the middle. This wouldn't be that big of a deal, except for the fact that Veldhuis has a massive stack. At the time of his shove, the board read {K-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {3-Hearts} {9-Spades} {2-Diamonds}.

Lex's opponent had made it 18,000 to go in a pot of approximately 50,000. Lex moved over the top of his opponent for 103,200 total. The player tanked and tanked. Finally, he folded and Lex scooped the pot. Lex now has about 180,000 chips.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

Dragan Tamed

See those chips? Not there any more.
See those chips? Not there any more.
A huge disaster for Dragan Galic, as he turned a gutshot and the chips went in -- and soon discovered that his all-in opponent Simon Munoz had turned a bigger gutshot.

Galic: {7-Diamonds} {10-Clubs}
Munoz: {7-Spades} {8-Clubs}

Board: {4-Clubs} {6-Spades} {3-Hearts} {5-Spades} {A-Diamonds}

Ouch.

A massive double up for Munoz to 240,000; Galic meanwhile is down to just 15,000 and shaking his head. "Would you have folded that?" Galic asked table neighbour William Reynolds. Negative.

Tags: Dragan GalicSimon Munoz

Young Guns Giving Some Back

Matt Woodward is by far and away the tournament chip leader, but not everything has been so easy. After opening with a raise preflop, Woodward was called by the player in the big blind. The player checked the flop of {J-Spades} {8-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} to Woodward. Woodward fired out 5,800, but the big blind wasn't about to make things so easy. He check-raised to 13,000 and prompted a fold from Woodward.

Over at an adjacent table, Nick "FU_15" Maimone bet 6,000 on a flop of {K-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} {4-Clubs}. His opponent on the button moved all in for 37,000 total. Maimone paused, but elected to get away from his hand.

Both young players gave a little back to the competition at their respective table, but are still well above where they began the day.

Tags: "FU_15"Matt WoodwardNick Maimone

Maimone Shows Two Pair

Nick "FU_15" Maimone raised from middle position to 4,200 and only the big blind called.

The flop came down {K-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} {4-Spades} and the first player checked. Maimone elected to check behind.

The turn brought the {J-Spades}. After his opponent checked to him, Maimone fired 7,000. His opponent slid his cards into the muck, giving Maimone the pot. Maimone choose to show and revealed {K-Hearts} {J-Hearts} to the table.

Tags: "FU_15"Nick Maimone

Isaia Makes It Work

After the board read {A-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {8-Clubs}, Alessio Isaia bet 5,600 into a lone opponent. The played thought and then made the call.

The river brought the {6-Hearts}. Isaia took his time and then fired out 8,200. His opponent took his time as well, about two minutes. Eventually, he made the call.

Isaia turned up {A-Diamonds} {A-Spades} for trip aces. His opponent mucked after being sure to double check for a heart in his hand.

Tags: Alessia Isaia

Liu Moving Up

JJ Liu raised to 4,100 from middle position and the player in the big blind called. The flop came down {A-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {6-Spades} and both players checked.

The turn brought the {7-Hearts} and the big blind checked to Liu. She fired out a bet of 8,000. That was enough of a move to get her opponent to fold and she gathered in the chips to move up to 81,000.

Tags: JJ Liu

Woodward Like More Chips

With the big blind sitting out Craig Bergeron raised under the gun, Matt Woodward reraised from the small blind and Bergeron 4-bet for a good chunk of his stack.

Woodward set him in and Bergeron called with {A-?} {Q-?}. Woodward flipped {A-?} {K-?} which stayed in front to increase his lead to almost 400,000.

Tags: Matt Woodward

J-3 No Good

Timex
Timex
Mike "Timex: McDonald is up to 145,000 after knocking out a short stack. We're not sure when the chips went in, but the less than premium hands were as follows:

Timex: {A-?} {6-?}
All in, soon to be all out: {J-?} {3-?}

Board: {7-?} {2-?} {3-?} {6-?} {8-?}

Tags: Timex