Main Event Day 4 | 2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

04-19-2010 16:26 UTC+2

Break it Down

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Three levels down. Eight more eliminations standing between us and beef carpaccio. Back in 15 minutes.

04-19-2010 16:26 UTC+2

Berende Doubles Through Karlsson

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Jakob Karlsson open-shoved first in from the small blind, and Paul Berende made the call to put himself all in from the big.

Berende: {A-Hearts}

Karlsson:

Board:

Berende doubled to around a million.

Tags: Jakob Karlsson Paul Berende

04-19-2010 16:25 UTC+2

Jens Thorson raised and Maurizio Baravalle called. Ramon Demon Cserei reraised to 155,000 - and Alexey Rybin shoved. Thorson and Baravalle folded, but after some though Cserei made the call.

Cserei: {A-Spades}

Rybin:

"No ace," said Rybin. "ASSSSSSS!!!!" shouted Cserei (we know it means 'ace' in Italian, but still, it's funny).

Board: {8-Spades}

The Russian duly doubled up.

Tags: Alexey Rybin Ramon Demon Cserei

04-19-2010 16:25 UTC+2

Piper Tunes In

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Michael Piper raised to 55,000 and got called by Claudio Piceci behind him and Paul Berende from the big blind.

All three players checked the {10-Spades}

flop before Berende led out for 77,000 on the {10-Diamonds}

turn. Piper now suddenly decided to make it 255,000 to play and Piceci folded.

Berende thought long and hard into the break, looking as though he really wanted to at least call, but eventually, and reluctantly, folded to the Englishman.

04-19-2010 16:22 UTC+2

Tadini Takes Anas-ty Hit

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Anas Tadini check-called 180,000 from Dermot Blain on the river of a {6-Clubs}

board - but mucked when Blain turned over {8-Clubs}

for a full house.

Tadini - down to 400,000
Blain - up to 1.9 million

Tags: Anas Tadini Dermot Blain

04-19-2010 16:19 UTC+2

Puccini 'Eights' That Board

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Toni Pettersson made a standard raise from the button and Mario Puccini reraised all-in from the small blind. Pettersson did some good old tanking before calling for most his own stack with {A-Diamonds}

but he was behind to Puccini's {A-Clubs}

.

The flop though came {8-Hearts}

bringing a clenched fistpump from the Finn, as Puccini could only stand and watch at the board paired with the {7-Diamonds}

turn and then provide a non-helpful {A-Spades}

river.

31 players remain.

Tags: Mario Puccini Toni Pettersson

04-19-2010 16:16 UTC+2

Verheijen Doubles Up

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We're not sure when the chips went in, but Gijs Verheijen was holding pocket sevens, Paul Pires-Trigo had {A-?}

and the board read {9-?}

. Verheijen doubled to a little over 500,000 while Pires-Trigo was left with a similar amount.

04-19-2010 16:15 UTC+2

Maurizio Gets Barred

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Maurizio Baravalle had been nursing a short stack for a fairly long while, he made a move with {K-Diamonds}

but could not beat Alexey Rybin's {7-Diamonds}

on a

board.

This leaves us with four tables of eight left.

04-19-2010 16:00 UTC+2

Rinaldi Won't Die

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Another double up for Claudio Rinaldi, he pushed in the big blind against Paul Valkenburg's small blind raise, the latter quickly called.

Rinaldi: {K-Spades}

Valkenburg: {A-Spades}

The board came {K-Clubs}

with Rinaldi getting there and then dodging a lot of bullets to hold on.

Tags: Claudio Rinaldi Paul Valkenburg

04-19-2010 15:49 UTC+2

A Decent Flop for Piceci

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Jakob Karlsson opened the pot to 53,000 from early position, and Nicholas Sforos moved all in for what looked like 313,000 total. When the action came to big blind Claudio Piceci, he went into the tank for several minutes, clearly considering a tough decision for a good chunk of his chips. After a couple of minutes, he announced a call, and Karlsson quickly mucked his cards to let the other two duke it out. Cards up, gents:

Sforos: {A-Hearts}

Piceci: