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

04-19-2010 11:44 UTC+2

Table Draw

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Table 1
Seat 1: Sylvain Jean Mazza (250000)
Seat 2: Domenico Antonio Tresa (373000)
Seat 3: Atanas Gueorguiev (369000)
Seat 4: Liv Boeree (513000)
Seat 5: Dermot Blain (1032000)
Seat 6: Thomas Meyer Swensen (456000)
Seat 8: Gordon Vayo (284000)

Table 2
Seat 1: Pierpaolo Fabretti (281000)
Seat 2: Harrison Gimbel (471000)
Seat 3: Dmitry Stelmak (1443000)
Seat 5: Alexey Rybin (617000)
Seat 6: Thang Duc Nguyen (870900)
Seat 7: Dario Rusconi (554000)
Seat 8: Paul Valkenburg (788000)

Table 3
Seat 1: Michael Piper (1182000)
Seat 2: Toni Pettersson (861000)
Seat 3: Nick Schulman (609000)
Seat 4: Danilo D'Ettoris (291000)
Seat 5: Matthias De Meulder (259000)
Seat 6: Jakob Karlsson (1803000)
Seat 7: Joe Serock (269000)
Seat 8: Ondrej Vinklarek (335000)

Table 4
Seat 1: Armando Graziano (682000)
Seat 2: Anas Tadini (537000)
Seat 3: Gijs Verheijen (794000)
Seat 4: Mauro Stivoli (332000)
Seat 6: Luigi Pignataro (731000)
Seat 7: Giuseppe Diep (354000)
Seat 8: Alexander Roumeliotis (887000)

Table 5
Seat 1: Mario Puccini (627000)
Seat 2: Alessandro Gabriele (228000)
Seat 3: Emanuele Rugini (172000)
Seat 4: Antonio Pezzi (227000)
Seat 5: Oleg Vladimirovich Tuntsev (213000)
Seat 6: Claudio Rinaldi (127000)
Seat 7: Nicholas Sforos (449000)
Seat 8: Matteo Andrea Grimaldi (458000)

Table 6
Seat 1: Paul Pires-Trigo (726000)
Seat 2: Fabrizio Ascari (463000)
Seat 3: Allan Baekke (1485000)
Seat 4: Claus Uhrskov (131000)
Seat 5: Tobias Huber (565000)
Seat 6: Mark Secher Petersen (153000)
Seat 7: Erik Tamm (840000)
Seat 8: Per Albin Linde (1193000)

Table 7
Seat 1: Ramon Demon Cserei (291000)
Seat 2: Cristian Tardea (240000)
Seat 3: Luigi Alessandro (327000)
Seat 4: Heinz Kamutzki (372000)
Seat 5: Giuseppe Pantaleo (443000)
Seat 7: Yury Kerzhapkin (299000)
Seat 8: Maurizio Baravalle (364000)

Table 8
Seat 1: Vincenzo Pisano (273000)
Seat 3: Alfio Battisti (419000)
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis (696000)
Seat 5: Giacomo Rosa (347000)
Seat 6: Claudio Piceci (411000)
Seat 8: Iulian Iacob (489000)

Table 9
Seat 1: Paul Berende (627000)
Seat 2: Ronny Kaiser (835000)
Seat 3: Andreas Martens (199000)
Seat 4: Kadir Karabulut (1577000)
Seat 5: Mohsen Tayfeh (490000)
Seat 6: Jens Thorson (1300000)
Seat 7: Antonio Buonanno (354000)
Seat 8: Dag Martin Mikkelsen (626000)

04-19-2010 11:45 UTC+2

Day 4, What's the Score?

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Welcome back to the glamorous and sunny Casino San Remo, where things are beginning to get very serious.

After five levels of absolute carnage yesterday, only 66 players remain with the bubble well and truly history. Every player left in the field is guaranteed €13,000 now - but there's a whole world of difference between that and the €1,250,000 up for grabs for first place.

Judging by how things have been going this week, we are predicting a super-fast day. We will be playing down to 24 players today, and don't think it's going to take very long at all.

Chip leader right now is Jakob Karlsson. The young Swede leads the field on 1.8 million. However, still in contention are EP Snowfest winner Allan Bække, EPT Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen, and serial winner of various things Nick Schulman. Play is due to start shortly, so please stand by.

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

04-19-2010 12:11 UTC+2

Ascari Gets Baekked

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Allan Baekke called a raise in the small blind from Fabrizio Ascari who had made it 45,000 on the button. The flop came {Q-Hearts}

and Baekke checked, Ascari quickly moved all-in, Baekke sighed, rechecked his cards and called.

Baekke: {K-Clubs}

Ascari:

The turn was the {9-Clubs}

and the river {8-Clubs}

meant Ascari missed his monster draw and was the first casualty of the day.

04-19-2010 12:20 UTC+2

Serock and a Hard Place

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Players are wasting absolutely zero time in getting their chips in, with, naturally, varied results.

Matthias de Meulder shoved under the gun, and Joe Serock reshoved. Everyone else got out of their way, and the cards were on their backs.

De Meulder: {10-Diamonds}

Serock: very ahead with {Q-Hearts}

Board:

Serock's face only fell ever so slightly as de Meulder turned the straight, but we imagine that he was raging inside. Crippled to just 10,000 or so, he called all in the next hand and once Toni Pettersson had raised and everyone else had folded, they turned the cards over.

Serock: {Q-Spades}

Pettersson: {K-Hearts}

Board:

Thus we lose Mr. Serock.

Tags: Joe Serock

04-19-2010 12:23 UTC+2

No River Tamm

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Allan Baekke put in a raise to 35,000 and Swede Erik Tamm defended from the small blind. Tamm led out for 50,000 on the {10-Hearts}

flop and Baekke called. The turn was the {3-Clubs}

and Tamm fired again, betting 130,000 this time. Baekke looked a little concerned, as though he was not expecting his opponent to fire again but again he made the call against the Swede. The {9-Diamonds}

appeared on the river and Tamm silently thought quietly for a minute.

The interesting thing at this point was that while waiting for Tamm to act, Baekke was not watching his opponent at all, just staring at vacant space as though he had already made a bet himself.

Tamm finally checked and Baekke began to eye up his opponent’s remaining stack of around 510,000. Finally he decided to bet 238,000 and Tamm quickly called, Baekke showed {7-Hearts}

for a rivered straight. Baekke is now the chip leader with over 2 million chips, start making your Baekke to Baekke jokes.

04-19-2010 12:25 UTC+2

Rugini Doubles Up

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Emanuele Rugini coinflipped his way to a full double up.

Rugini: {A-Spades}

Nicholas Sforos: {4-Clubs}

Board:

Rugini is up to almost 400,000.

04-19-2010 12:28 UTC+2

Ducks and Covered

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Mark Petersen got his very last in with {2-Clubs}

but couldn't hold up against Per Linde's {K-Spades}

on a

board and instead hit the rail.

04-19-2010 12:42 UTC+2

D'oh For D'Ettoris

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Danilo D'Ettoris is out of the tournament after check-raising all-in on a {K-Hearts}

board for 176,000 after Jakob Karlsson bet 56,000 on the river. With a lot in the pot, the Swede sighed and called turning over {A-Diamonds}

forcing D’Ettoris to tap the table and show a missed {9-Clubs}

and hit the rail.

04-19-2010 12:45 UTC+2

Piper Fails to Bink Vink

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It folded around to Ondrej Vinklarek in the small blind, who announced all in. Michael Piper in the big blind eyed up the amount, and then called.

Vinklarek: {A-Spades}

Piper:

Board:

"How can I not bink?" mused Piper, who had clearly got rather excited about the open-ended straight draw he'd picked up on the turn. Nevertheless, Vinklarek doubled up to around 550,000 while Piper dropped to 900,000 or so.