2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 2
1a1b2345
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
9♠6♠
Prize
€2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0
Sort
20 Show newer posts

Mercier Loses Out on Five Minutes of Precious Breaktime

[user46392]
[user46392]
Last hand before the break, Jason Mercier raised from the cutoff only to be confronted with a reraise to 9,200 from the gent in the big blind. Mercier quietly made it 48,600 to cover the big blind, who proceeded to dwell up long enough that everyone else had gone out on break before he'd made a decision. He folded.

Mercier: around 70,000.

Ash-bye

[user46298]
[user46298]
Richard 'Chufty' Ashby may get the cake online, but he wasn't too pleased about the slice dealt to him in this tournament. There were ups and downs yesterday, but today saw the last of his chips go in a dramatic hand. Holding {9-?} {10-?}, he saw a fourway flop of {J-?} {Q-?} {K-?} . They checked around. The turn brought a {2-?}, and now the betting kicked off properly, Ashby's straight eventually herding his stack in against one opponent's pocket deuces for the turned set. "The river paired," sighed Ashby. "Sick."

Tags: Richard Ashby

Level: 10

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Ebanks' Federal Reserve

[user46298]
[user46298]
Joseph Ebanks appears to have more than doubled his already-comfortable 100k stack, shooting up to 250,000. The cool quarter mil means that he's right up there with erstwhile chip leader Lee Nelson after just one level.

Tags: Joseph Ebanks

Whoops!

[user75032]
[user75032]
For the first ten minutes Level 10, Table 15 has been playing with a slightly different structure than every other table. While they've been using blinds of 600 and 1,200, each player has been anteing 200 -- even though the structure calls for an ante of only 100. One of the players finally noticed that the tournament clock shows an ante of 100, and a floor was called to the table. He said there was nothing that could be done about the pots already played; each player would just ante 100 from here on out.

Williams Bides His Time

[user46298]
[user46298]
Williams: tangling with the big stacks
Williams: tangling with the big stacks
Like a cat feigning disinterest before pouncing after a while, David Williams extracted three full bets from Niccolo Caramatti, before check-raising the river and taking the pot. Caramatti bet 16k on the {3-Hearts} {4-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} flop (a third player who got this far but no further took up five minutes at this point before folding after time was called on him). Then came 25k on the {6-Clubs} turn, and finally 50k on the {5-Hearts} river. Williams calmly called the first two bets and then moved all in after Caramatti bet the river. He got an instant fold, and an instant 100k plus boost to his stack.

Tags: David WilliamsNiccolo Caramatti

Four Chips and a Chair

[user46298]
[user46298]
Climber of the Day has to go to Leo Fernandez. Although it's usually awarded at the end of a day's play, the accolade appears deserved already as Fernandez, a Team Pokerstars Pro, started the day with just 4,000 in chips, and is now on 90,000! It just proves that coming back with any stack at all means you're in with a chance, and a little period of optimism/running good could turn it into a shot at an EPT title.

Tags: Leo Fernandez

Prizepool and Payout Information Released

[user38449]
[user38449]
Prizepool and payout information has recently been released by the tournament staff and the numbers are impressive, to say the least. The records for total entrants, total prizepool and largest first place payout at an EPT Grand Final have all been smashed:

Entrants -- 935 (Previously 842 in 2008)
Total prizepool -- €9,350,000 (Previously €8,420,000 in 2008)
First place prize money -- €2,300,000 (Previously €2,020,000, won by Glen Chorny in 2008)

For complete prizepool and payout information, click here.
12345…15