2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo
€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event
Day: 1a
Dropping Like Flies
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
"I'm Such a Pussy"
Turn:
Now Kang's opponent bet out 5,100 -- but Kang pushed for 14,900 total and then looked resolutely down at the felt.
His opponent thought about it for long enough that eventually Kang called the clock. "You show, I show," said Kang. Still he was in the tank, though, and finally he timed out (although for some reason the floor man missed out "five" from his ten-second countdown). Disgusted, he showed . Kang turned over for the straight, and lamented his loss of value. "Oh no, why did I do that? I'm such a pussy. If I'd known..." Nevertheless, Kang is up to almost 30,000.
A Great Structure?
McDonald pointed out that the recent SCOOP tournament series run on PokerStars had such great structures that players were coming to the final table extremely deep in chips. "Compared to online, this structure sucks," joked McDonald.
Obviously, the EPT structure is excellent for live tournaments (one-hour levels, 200 big blind starting stacks). McDonald's point was that, because online poker plays so much more quickly than live poker, the 30-minute levels that were used for the high-stakes SCOOP events were a comparatively better structure.
Official Numbers!
Hedlund Feeling Happy
Fohrenbach Doesn't Want to Show; Doesn't Have To
Hungry?
At the end of it all, the whole field will be back in action together for Level 7.