2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
€1,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€6,014,000
Entries
1,240
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0

No Go For Trigo

Paul Pires-Trigo has just been knocked out after pushing with {10-Hearts} {7-Spades} and running into Gijs Verheijen {J-Diamonds} {J-Spades}. This left him with mere shrapnel left and he was eliminated next hand when his {Q-?} {3-?} couldn't over come {A-?} {3-?} on a {7-?} {6-?} {6-?} {J-?} {J-?} board.

Thorson Gets Demonised

"Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
"Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
William Thorson pondered, before calling a reraise in position against Ramon Demon Cseri. The Swede, younger brother of Team Pokerstars Pro William Thorson, was the chip leader and had been bullying his table fairly constantly for a while.

The flop came {Q-Spades} {9-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} and Cseri led out for 290,000. Thorson quickly moved all-in and Cseri snap-called showing {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts} to Thorson's {7-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds}. The most blatant blanks appeared on the {3-Hearts} turn and {2-Clubs} river and Cseri doubled up to almost 2.2 million in chips.

Rosa Wilts

We're not sure how the action went but the cards looked like so by the end of the hand:

Thang Duc Nguyen: {A-Clubs} {K-Clubs}
Giacomo Rosa: {K-Hearts} {8-Hearts}

Board: {6-Clubs} {8-Spades} {7-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} {2-Spades}

Rosa shook hands with everyone at the table and headed for the payout desk. Nguyen found himself up to 1.6 million.

Tags: Giacomo RosaThang Duc Nguyen

Kaiser Table Chief

Some curiousness indeed as Mohsen Tayfeh opened for 71,000 and Allan Bække made it 175,000 behind. Over to Ronny Kaiser in the small blind, who made it 320,000 to go. Tayfeh asked how much Kaiser had left, but folded. Bække however made the call and they saw a flop.

Flop: {K-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {7-Spades}

Kaiser promptly bet out 400,000 - and that was the end of that. Bække passed, and Kaiser took the pot.

Tags: Allan BækkeRonny Kaiser

Duc Rockets Ahead

Thang Duc
Thang Duc
Dmitry Stelmak made it 65,000 from the button but Erik Tamm in the small blind had other ideas and made it 175,000 to go. Thang Duc Nguyen unexpectedly flatted in the big blind. Stelmak called and they saw a flop.

Flop: {K-Clubs} {3-Spades} {7-Spades}

Tamm checked it, but Nguyen promptly bet 300,000. Once both his opponents had folded, he proudly tabled. {A-Clubs} {A-Spades}.

Tags: Thang Duc Nguyen

Mon Dieu Michel!

We're out of Frenchmen
We're out of Frenchmen
Michel Abecassis was the last Frenchman standing in this tournament, but he's just surrendered that title. Abecassis reraised preflop against UTG raiser Mohsen Tayfeh but the latter pushed and Abecassis committed his stack.

Tayfeh: {A-Clubs} {K-Hearts}
Abecassis: {7-Hearts} {7-Diamonds}

The board came {8-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {3-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} {3-Clubs} and another one bites the dust.

Tags: Michel AbecassisMohsen Tayfeh

Glo and Harry

Harrison Gimbel took down the 2010 PCA in January, and he was well on course to add an EPT title to his mantle until a few sour pots spoiled his chances late this afternoon. Before his untimely exit, Harrison took a few minutes with Glo for a little chat. Check it out:

The day is winding down, but you can watch all of our videos from EPT San Remo at your leisure over on PokerNews TV.

Vinklarek Suffers Czechmate

Ondrej Vinklarek was short stacked all day, but finally found a spot to push with {9-?} {9-?} from the blinds. There was just one small problem with his plan, Atanas Gueorguiev was in the big blind with {A-?} {A-?}.

Makes things a little tricky.

Board: {Q-Hearts} {8-Spades} {6-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {J-Diamonds}

And then there were 25.

Tags: Sam Chartier

Valkenburg Gets Squeezy

Valkenburg
Valkenburg
Claudio Rinaldi raised to 68,000 under the gun and Claudio Piceci called. But big blind Paul Valkenburg shoved for around 400,000 and forced both Claudios to make a decision.

Rinaldi folded with just a minute or two's thought, but it took Piceci rather longer. Eventually he folded pocket fours face up, and Valkenburg showed him {A-?} {J-?}.

But this had already been declared the last hand of the day, as elsewhere there had already been an exit, meaning that we were down to 24...

Tags: Paul Valkenburg