Lieu is up to a shade shy of 50,000.
2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Main Event
Day: 1b
Lieu is up to a shade shy of 50,000.
Back before you know it.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
It's an EPT, and that means it's time to chat with Luca Pagano! This event is Luca's baby to some extent, representing the Grand Final of his own Italian Poker Tour. Check out what Luca had to say about the IPT and his hopes for this event:
We've just spotted Jake Cody for the first time; the winner of EPT Deauville is doing a remarkably good job obscuring himself under his hoodie.
We've also found Jeff Sarwer, sitting with Marion Nedellec. Not sure how we missed him; we've been staring at that table for about two hours now.
We've also recently discovered Ramzi Jelassi, Amnon Filippi, and Benny Spindler, and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden has decided to join in the fun as well.
In case you've been wondering about that as well, the branding limits have to do with a legal issue here in Italy. The only branding that is allowed in the casino are the logos of companies with legally established .it websites. That excludes a number of the large poker sites, but PokerStars is good to go, and just about everything and everyone are decked out in the black and red.
You can bet the host sponsor are not among those complaining about that pesky law.
Among the faces that have just recently come into focus like some kind of card-based autostereogram are Tobias Reinkemeier, Toni Ojala, [Removed:197], Amnon Filippi and Aurelien Guiglini. We fully expect to be newly discovering more famous faces throughout the day - particularly as the PokerStars Express Bus is due to roll into San Remo at around 4.30pm.
They there found out all flights were cancelled, headed back to Paris and got a 6 hour train to Nice where they had to sit next to the toilet as the train was full.
Finally they've just arrived, luckily having only lost 2,000 of their chips so far.
He lost the hand to his opponent who was holding, the perhaps inexplicable, .
No, we do not get it either.