2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 5
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

Nguyen Has to Let Go

This hand was pretty uninteresting until the river, so we'll pick it up there. Heads up, Thang Duc Nguyen and Alexey Rybin watched the dealer fill out a board of {K-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} {A-Diamonds}. When Rybin checked the river, Nguyen made a standard-sized bet of 140,000. After a moment of thought, Rybin check-raised all in over the top to put Nguyen to a decision for his last 530,000 chips. Nguyen thought it over long and hard before finally yielding to the bet and surrendering his hand into the muck.

Nguyen is left with just about ten big blinds with which to wage some short-stack war.

Tags: Alexey RybinThang Duc Nguyen

Chip Counts from Outer Space

Or from the outer tables, anyway.

Liv Boeree - 2,800,000
Toni Pettersson - 2,200,000
Dermot Blain - 2,000,000
Dmitry Stelmak - 2,750,000
Mohsen Tayfeh - 1,500,000
Giuseppe Diep - 1,250,000

Michael Piper - 3,600,000
Claudio Rinaldi - 1,500,000
Erik Tamm - 3,600,000
Atanas Gueorguiev - 550,000
Per Linde - 2,400,000
Claudio Piceci - 1,800,000

Kadir Karabulut Eliminated in 19th Place (€30,000)

Kadir Karabulut - 19th Place
Kadir Karabulut - 19th Place
Kadir Karabulut shoved for his last 500,000 in early position. Everyone folded and he picked up the blinds.

The next hand, he raised under the gun to 175,000. Again, everyone passed and he nudged his stack up to a little over 700,000.

The hand after that, with Karabulut in the big blind, Michael Piper opened for 110,000 from the button. Karabulut pushed, and Piper insta-called.

Karabulut: {K-Clubs} {Q-Spades}
Piper: {A-Hearts} {A-Diamonds}

"Good luck," said Piper, and then to the dealer, "ace ten jack." We suspect he did not mean this.

Flop: {6-Clubs} {J-Spades} {3-Clubs}

Piper: "Ace on the turn."

Turn: {9-Hearts}

Piper: "You got a sweat."

River: {K-Hearts}

Karabulut: out.

Tags: Kadir KarabulutMichael Piper

Diep in Thought

Giuseppe Diep raised under the gun and it folded all the way around to Mohsen Tayfeh in the big blind who pushed all in. Then he sat back in his seat. "Nothing I can do now," he said, "Your decision."

Diep squirmed for a while, holding his big headphones tight over his ears to block out the gentle murmur of the tournament area, and eventually gave it up.

Tags: Giuseppe DiepMohsen Tayfeh

Berende Doubles

Paul Berende
Paul Berende
Erik Tamm raised to 125,000 and Paul Berende moved all-in for 140,000. Ramon Demon Cserei reraised to about 400,000 to isolate and Tamm folded.

Berende: {K-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}
Cserei: {A-Spades} {10-Clubs}

Board: {9-Spades} {5-Hearts} {3-Hearts} {K-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}

Berende has doubled through and almost tripled up as a result.

Tags: Paul BerendeRamon Cserei

Bække To Basics

Jacob Carlsson raised preflop to 115,000 before Allan Bække 3-bet to 270,00. Carlsson decided to move all-in for about 1.7 million and Bække immediately folded. The Dane does not seem to be showing any sign that he will be slowing down the aggression though.

Level: 26

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 5,000

Break Time

A whole level has elapsed and it's time to go mill around in the sunshine and/or queue for the facilities.

Back in 15.