2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
78
Prize
€404,793
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Entries
322
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Kramarruko Sent Back to Russia

Luis Rodrigues checked the turn of an {8-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {10-Spades} board and Olga Kramarruko bet 10,000. Rodrigues now raised to cover her, and after a moment she called all in.

Kramarruko: {K-Spades} {Q-Clubs} for top pair
Rodrigues: {10-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} for two pair and a flush draw

River: {7-Hearts}

And that's it for the Russian.

Spaniard Finds Quaaaaaads

It seems that Manuel Jimenez Cecilia check-called a bet from Dominykas Karmazinas on the {4-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} flop and then check-min-raised another bet on the {J-Hearts} turn.

So there was around 70,000 in the pot by the river, when Cecilia bet out 25,000. Karmazinas called - but his face sank like a lead zeppelin when Cecilia turned over {7-Spades} {7-Hearts} for flopped quads. He showed pocket eights, and is down to 100,000 while the Spaniard moves on up to 150,000.

"Spanish power," declared a completely unbiased member of the Spanish media. Indeed.

Reinkemeier Chops Plot But Still Loses Out to a Bluff

Enormous excitement as JP Kelly moved in on a {4-Clubs} {J-Clubs} {A-Clubs} flop and was called by Tobias Reinkemeier - closely followed by vague disappointment, from a spectator's point of view anyway, as both players turned over {A-?} {Q-?} with nary a club in sight, and following an uneventful turn and river they chopped it up.

Kelly - 35,000
Reinkemeier - 70,000

By the by, Reinkemeier was telling a tale of woe while this was all taking place.

"I asked a waitress for a coffee and she said it was 50c, but she needed the money in advance. I asked her why, she said she needed the change, so I gave her a euro. Then she never came back."

"Wow, you got bluffed," commiserated a tablemate.

"Maybe she wasn't a waitress," offered another.

Tags: JP KellyTobias Reinkemeier

Scandinavian Warfare

On a board reading {10-Spades} {3-Diamonds} {A-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds}, we just caught the final betting actions. After a check from Jan Skampa, Allan Baekke bet 22,500 into a pot of about 40,000. Skampa went deep into the tank for several minutes before double-checking his hole cards. Finally, he grabbed his stack of about 45,000 chips and slid them forward. Baekke could not have folded any quicker, and Skampa earns himself a nice pot.

He's up to about 110,000 after that all-Scandinavian battle.

Tags: Allan BaekkeJan Skampa

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Jesus Saves Himself a Showdown

Jesus Sanchez, who apparently qualified in his local card room for €50, is having a marvellous time.

Having knocked out Barny Boatman earlier to put him on a very decent stack, he just now got himself involved in a massive hand with British online qualifier Matthew Nieberg.

We caught up with the action on the river, the board reading {9-Spades} {6-Spades} {Q-Spades} {8-Hearts} {10-Hearts} and around 60,000 in the pot already. Nieberg in the small blind position thought about it for a while before checking; after some time thinking about it, Sanchez bet 44,000 from the button.

"That's why I should bet," sighed Nieberg, "That's looking like a terrible river check from me now."

He dwelled up for what seemed like a million years. "Show me if I fold?" he asked eventually. "Nope," was the very decisive answer from Sanchez. Nieberg sighed and disappeared into the tank again. He counted out the call - no feeling sorry for him, as a call would still leave him on over 200,000! - but continued to tank. Eventually he called the clock on himself. The dealer thought he was joking, but he wasn't.

"I don't see why you'd call twice," he muttered, offering a tantalizing glimpse of how that pre-river action went down. Eventually he folded.

"If you had a straight I was beat," he said as the pot went Sanchez' way, "I had a set." Sanchez declined to reveal what he'd had, but was spotted giggling with a member of the Spanish media a little later. Curious.

Sanchez - 160,000
Nieberg - even without that pot, looking to be our current chip leader on over 250,000

Tags: Jesus SanchezMatthew Nieberg