2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♣a♦
Prize
€1,700,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Entries
848
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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Invisible Ivey

[user66118]
[user66118]
If a Phil Ivey falls in the woods, and nobody's around...

Ivey was down to a paltry four big blinds after an opponent flopped quads against him a couple orbits ago. We admittedly missed the hand that finished him off, but we do know that Ivey's day here is done.

We expect to see him later in the week in the €25,000 High Roller event.

Tags: Phil Ivey

Binger Doubles Up

[user46392]
[user46392]
Nick Binger raised from the button and then shoved to a reraise from the small blind. Mr. Small Blind called, and they flipped their cards.

Binger: {A-Spades} {9-Diamonds}
Mr. Small Blind: {5-Hearts} {5-Diamonds}

Binger stood up to leave.

Board: {A-Hearts} {4-Spades} {Q-Clubs} {6-Spades} {K-Spades}

Binger sat back down to his newly-doubled 28,000 stack.

Tags: Nick Binger

Steindl Doubles Through Roumeliotis in Monster Pot

[user46392]
[user46392]
Oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. Austrian Team PokerStars Pro Johannes Steindl - in fact the only Austrian on the team - has doubled up in what we suspect is the biggest hand of the tournament so far.

Steindl was the first to raise, and Alexander Roumeliotis reraised to around 5,000. Steindl re-popped to around 15,000, Roumeliotis shoved, and Steindl called all in for 69,500. On their backs.

Roumeliotis: {A-Hearts} {K-Spades}
Steindl: {A-Clubs} {A-Spades}

Board: {A-Diamonds} {7-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {5-Clubs} {9-Clubs}

Steindl doubled to 140,000 or so and is now up there with the big boys. Roumeliotis was reduced to 18,000.

Tags: Alexander RoumeliotisJohannes Steindl

Glo and Ro

[user66118]
[user66118]

We've had our eyes on Roland de Wolfe all day after he started the day at the toughest table in the town. In a room of more than 350 players, de Wolfe started the day with Steve Sung, Men Nguyen, and James "Flushy" Dempsey. Oh, and some guy named Phil Ivey. Check out what Roland had to say about his day so far:

Tags: Roland de Wolfe

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

Cernuto Out

[user140344]
[user140344]
On a board reading {7-Clubs}{5-Spades}{j-Spades}{7-Hearts}, Miami John Cernuto called a 7,000 bet from his opponent. The {2-Spades} fell on the river and Cernuto called his opponents bet, putting himself all in with the tournament life at risk.

He hit the rail when his {k-Spades}{q-Spades} for the second nut flush fell to his opponent's {a-Spades}{3-Spades} for the nut flush.

Tags: John Cernuto

Filippi Jiggles While Wice Suffers

[user46392]
[user46392]
Amnon
Amnon
Amnon Filippi, reduced to 11,000, shoved from the button after it folded around to him. He jiggled a little, in an I'm-all-in kind of way. The small blind swiftly folded, but big blind Alex Wice, even shorter than Filippi on just 4,000 or so, seemed to be on the verge of some sort of breakdown.

"What's your name?" he insisted, clearly very wound up. "What's with the shaking?"

Filippi told him his name and while Wice rolled his eyes at the ceiling and underwent some sort of dreadful internal confusion, tablemate Chris Bjorin cheerfully asked Filippi, "Who's that guy in Vegas who always gets your name wrong?" Filippi told him, "Walter. He called me Aaron for years."

Wice was still suffering. "I am not a favourite against a random hand, put it that way," he said. "I just wanna see how much of a clown you are." Eventually Steven van Zadelhoff called the clock, and after a little while Wice folded, quickly flashing a {4-?} at Filippi. Filippi showed him a surprisingly premium {10-Hearts} {10-Clubs}.

By the by, if you're wondering where all the chips on that table went, Chris Bjorin looks to be chip leader right now on 165,000. His neighbour Owen Crowe is also doing rather well on around 100,000.

Tags: Alex WiceAmnon FilippiChris Bjorin

Sarwer in Check, Avoids Mate

[user66118]
[user66118]
Jeff Sarwer
Jeff Sarwer
We walked up to Jeff Sarwer's table just as he was leading out with a bet of 4,500 (into a pot of about 7,000) on a turned board showing {7-Clubs} {9-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} {7-Spades}. His opponent stuck out a big raise, enough to put Sarwer to a decision for his remaining ~13,000 chips. After just a quick deliberation, Sarwer stuck them in there with {8-Spades} {9-Spades}, and the news was not good. His opponent tabled {K-Spades} {K-Clubs}, and Sarwer was dead to two outs.

Fortunately for him, the {9-Clubs} was one of those two outs, and that's just what the dealer served him on the river. With his full house, Sarwer notches that unlikely double up to about 45,000.

Tags: Jeff Sarwer

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