2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

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

Diamonds Are Not So Toth

Richard Toth has been eliminated after getting all-in on the turn of a {7-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} board with {Q-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds}. So far, so reasonable. The problem was he was all-in against Masaaki Kagawa's {8-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} but even worse, Alex Keating's {A-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds}, which had the other two players drawing dead even before the {K-Clubs} river was dealt.

Toth was eliminated leaving Keating doubling through Kagawa and taking the Hungarian PokerStars Team Pro's chips as well.

Veldhuis Destroys Excellent Start

Alexander
Alexander
After an excellent start turning a full house with pocket sevens on an {8-?} {4-?} {4-?} {7-?} X and getting his huge overbet called on the river, Lex Veldhuis has lost most of it back again and is now back to roughly his starting stack.

Veldhuis opened for 600 and got two callers, one of them Vlad Mezheritsky and the other one the gentleman in the small blind; the three of them saw a {10-Clubs} {J-Spades} {9-Spades} flop. The small blind checked and Veldhuis bet 1,200, Mezheritsky called and the small blind got out of the way.

The turn was the {9-Diamonds} and Veldhuis now bet out 2,850. Again, Mezheritsky flatted, and they moved on to the river.

The river came down the {8-Clubs} and this time Veldhuis checked. Mezheritsky bet 6,000, and Veldhuis now check-raised all in to cover. Mezheritsky called all in for 24,600 and turned over {K-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} for the flopped straight, then raked in the 60,000 pot. Veldhuis mucked and looked ill, and dropped right back down to 34,000.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Not Mizzing Any Value

A threeway flop of {J-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {7-Hearts} saw Sorrel Mizzi lead out for 1,350. Thierry van den Berg tanked but then folded. The button then raised to 2,800 and Mizzi called.

On the {6-Clubs} turn Mizzi fired out again for 4,000 and the button flat-called before Mizzi bet 12,500 on the {2-Hearts} river.

The button called a final time but then mucked when the Canadian turned over {J-Spades} {10-Clubs} for top two pair.

Negreanu Wins One

With the board reading {2-Spades}{6-Spades}{10-Clubs}{5-Clubs}, an opponent in the cutoff made it 3,500. Daniel Negreanu made the call, taking the two to the river.

Both players checked the {10-Diamonds} river and Negreanu took the pot with {6-Hearts}{4-Hearts}.

He now sits with around 40,000.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

Rousso Doubles

On the brink of making an exit, Vanessa Rousso moved all-in following a 6,000 bet from her opponent. The board read {j-Hearts}{q-Clubs}{7-Spades}.

Rousso: {j-Spades}{j-Diamonds}
Opponent: {A-Hearts}{k-Hearts}

The board ran out {5-Hearts}{6-Spades} and Rousso found a double up to stay alive.

"I would have been real upset if that would have beat me," she said raking in the chips.

She then turned to the player on her right and said, "I just had this feeling I would flop a set."

Tags: Vanessa Rousso

Mitchell Smacked by Aces

James Mitchell raised preflop and called a reraise to 1,500 from the gentleman in the big blind to see an {A-Spades} {K-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} flop, and then called the 2,000 the big blind bet out.

Both players checked the {J-Clubs} turn but come the {7-Spades} river Mr. Big Blind bet out another 6,000. Mitchell paid up, but quietly mucked when his opponent turned over {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts}.

The Irish Open champ is down to 11,500.

Tags: James Mitchell

Pagano Jr. in Possession of a Fun-Size Stack

Luca Pagano has had a pretty unhappy first couple of levels - he was down to around half his starting stack when we caught up with him.

He got a little of it back check-raising to 1,350 from the small blind to a 625 bet from the gent on the button; the button folded. Even so, though, he's still nowhere near what he started with, on 17,500 right now.

Tags: Luca Pagano