2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Main Event
Day: 2
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

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table 1
Seat 1: William Brad Stalcup (56700)
Seat 2: Imre Leibold (46400)
Seat 3: Eric Fourniois (29400)
Seat 4: Emanuele Rugini (43100)
Seat 5: Noah Schwartz (80300)
Seat 6: Anton Wigg (121900)
Seat 7: Jerome Zerbib (87100)
Seat 8: John Tabatabai (66700)
Seat 9: Fredric Bussot (15800)

Table 2
Seat 1: Vicky Coren (114000)
Seat 2: Vlad Mezheritsky (49000)
Seat 3: Kevin Stani (48200)
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin (171100)
Seat 5: Russell Carson (34900)
Seat 6: Emanuele Di Domenico (67800)
Seat 7: Dan O'Brien (69400)
Seat 8: Moritz Kranich (90300)
Seat 9: Joseph Elpayaa (19200)

Table 3
Seat 1: Greg Raymer (62000)
Seat 2: Florian Langmann (14200)
Seat 3: Hicham Berdai (72200)
Seat 4: Surinder Sunar (17400)
Seat 5: Lauren Kling (29400)
Seat 6: Mikhail Shalamov (76300)
Seat 7: Mikhall Shakhnovich (68100)
Seat 8: Andrey Gulyy (63000)
Seat 9: Joakim Broberg (17300)

Table 4
Seat 1: Matthew Giannetti (48400)
Seat 2: El Mostafa Bel Khayate (153900)
Seat 3: Stefano Marzocchi (60200)
Seat 4: Christopher McCormack (72000)
Seat 5: Alessandro Longobardi (64400)
Seat 6: Allie Prescott (63300)
Seat 7: Timothy Finne (88400)
Seat 8: Martin Vallo (69600)
Seat 9: Rumen Nanev (20900)

Table 5
Seat 1: David Peters (66200)
Seat 2: Eric Mutrie (72900)
Seat 3: Brent Wheeler (170800)
Seat 4: Floris Morang (131600)
Seat 5: Riu Cao (69000)
Seat 6: Eric Qu (71700)
Seat 7: Keven Stammen (26000)
Seat 8: Ludovic Lacay (86000)
Seat 9: Lars Bonding (23900)

Table 6
Seat 1: Janno Cazemier (45900)
Seat 2: Olivier Daeninckx (60300)
Seat 3: Yorane Kerignard (88800)
Seat 4: Bertrand Guenoun (32700)
Seat 5: Steven Van Zadelhoff (47600)
Seat 6: Jesus Ramos Vazquez (12300)
Seat 7: Alexander Debus (82500)
Seat 8: Senol Karahasan (67100)
Seat 9: Victor Olaru Viorel (25100)

Table 7
Seat 1: Steven Vollers (28200)
Seat 2: Amnon Filippi (29000)
Seat 3: Allan Bække (54900)
Seat 4: Bruno Lopes (49200)
Seat 5: Erik Van Den Berg (56700)
Seat 6: William Ross (80300)
Seat 7: Patrick Wymann (9300)
Seat 8: James Kilarjian (35100)
Seat 9: Jean Berger (18300)

Table 8
Seat 1: Scott Montgomery (95400)
Seat 2: Cristiano Guerra (56000)
Seat 3: Dieter Albrecht (105600)
Seat 4: Luca Moschitta (22100)
Seat 5: David Sesso (121000)
Seat 6: Isabelle Mercier (101600)
Seat 7: Claudiu Saizu (147600)
Seat 8: Jose Maria Pacheco De Noronha (58200)
Seat 9: Henri Layani (25400)

Table 9
Seat 1: Dmitry Stelmak (42400)
Seat 2: Jeff Sarwer (103200)
Seat 3: Dmitry Vitkind (46000)
Seat 4: Antoanell Judet (60400)
Seat 5: Rino Mathis (56100)
Seat 6: Richard Karl Kemperman (14100)
Seat 7: Tristan McDonald (62900)
Seat 8: Frédéric Ayadi (138400)
Seat 9: Ivan Lehoczky (19600)

Table 10
Seat 1: Dennis Waterman (8500)
Seat 2: Kenny Hallaert (66000)
Seat 3: Markus Lehman (52800)
Seat 4: Peter Akery (35600)
Seat 5: Josef Gulas (100200)
Seat 6: Georges Ghossan (61200)
Seat 7: Ross Boatman (48600)
Seat 8: George Danzer (29500)
Seat 9: Julien Labussiere (20600)

Table 11
Seat 1: Nenad Medic (95000)
Seat 2: Rony Halimi (80100)
Seat 3: Jean Jacques Mars (35700)
Seat 4: Viktor Ivanov (106100)
Seat 5: Andreas Torbergsen (71100)
Seat 6: Isaac Baron (27300)
Seat 7: Teddy Sheringham (105600)
Seat 8: Guillaume Darcourt (77600)
Seat 9: Claudiu Secara (23200)

Table 12
Seat 1: Heinz Kamutzki (33400)
Seat 2: JJ Liu (63400)
Seat 3: Andrey Zaichenko (46600)
Seat 4: Liz Lieu (33900)
Seat 5: Hugo Lemaire (89500)
Seat 6: Bernard Guigon (71100)
Seat 7: Jonathan Plens (49000)
Seat 8: Herve Costa (103300)
Seat 9: Nam Le (10300)

Table 13
Seat 1: Alex Gomes (122800)
Seat 2: Viktoria Szilasi (53600)
Seat 3: Oleg Poluzhnikov (41600)
Seat 4: David Paredes (144600)
Seat 5: Gianni Giaroni (60900)
Seat 6: Mariano Agustin Balaguer (23500)
Seat 7: Dylan Linde (31800)
Seat 8: Jan Heitmann (36600)
Seat 9: Tyler Reiman (12000)

Table 14
Seat 1: Maurizio Baisi (82200)
Seat 2: Andrew Scott (77600)
Seat 3: Randall Mccowan (71400)
Seat 4: Eugene Katchalov (103700)
Seat 5: Stuart Rutter (57700)
Seat 6: Markus Golser (33100)
Seat 7: [Removed:39] (92100)
Seat 8: Johannes Steindl (141300)
Seat 9: Cedric Devoteau (9900)

Table 15
Seat 1: Vladislav Varlashin (31400)
Seat 2: Michael Bramson (40400)
Seat 3: Chris Moneymaker (119900)
Seat 4: Jason Collier (80800)
Seat 5: John Kabbaj (68300)
Seat 6: Aleksandr Val (69400)
Seat 7: Sebastien Bidinger (42800)
Seat 8: Andrew Badecker (68700)
Seat 9: Nourredine Aittaleb (20700)

Table 16
Seat 1: Olivier Douce (29500)
Seat 2: Josef Klinger (54000)
Seat 3: Miguel Borges (20600)
Seat 4: Ismail Erkenov (30300)
Seat 5: Martin Schmidkunz (28000)
Seat 6: Claudio Pagano (50000)
Seat 7: Jesper Hougaard (54200)
Seat 8: Juan Manuel Pastor (65100)
Seat 9: Noah Boeken (17200)

Table 17
Seat 1: Jean Noel Said (69000)
Seat 2: Chia Hung Hsu (57000)
Seat 3: Simon Munz (175200)
Seat 4: Lasse Ubostad (125500)
Seat 5: Jason James (78700)
Seat 6: Ali Tekintamgac (110200)
Seat 7: Andrew Chen (116900)
Seat 8: Govert Metaal (40400)

Table 18
Seat 1: Antonio Subtil (26100)
Seat 2: Tomer Berda (64400)
Seat 3: Kozinskiy Yuriy (7900)
Seat 4: Alex Keating (66400)
Seat 5: Ben Grundy (58500)
Seat 6: Spencer Cossette (35800)
Seat 7: Sander Lylloff (73800)
Seat 8: Paul Testud (55600)
Seat 9: Guillaume De La Gorce (16500)

Table 19
Seat 1: Andrey Danilyuk (50600)
Seat 2: Mikhail Smirnov (75300)
Seat 3: Derek Thorpe (37100)
Seat 4: Thomas Dolezal (45400)
Seat 5: Imed Ben Mahmoud (25700)
Seat 6: Catherine Hong (99800)
Seat 7: Petter Northug (43000)
Seat 8: Georges Yazbeck (42900)
Seat 9: Michele Ferrari (22300)

Table 20
Seat 1: Joe Serock (40600)
Seat 2: Richard Friedrich (39900)
Seat 3: Matt Perrins (41900)
Seat 4: Peter Traply (55000)
Seat 5: Nichlas Mattsson (31200)
Seat 6: Aleh Plauski (75400)
Seat 7: Men Nguyen (116000)
Seat 8: Simon Ehne (26200)
Seat 9: John Shipley (25100)

Table 21
Seat 1: Silvain Evrard (31300)
Seat 2: Davidi Kitai (98100)
Seat 3: Oliver Busquet (88400)
Seat 4: Evgeniy Zaytsev (27800)
Seat 5: Alberto Valenti (46200)
Seat 6: Felipe Montenegro (127500)
Seat 7: Stuart Fox (8000)
Seat 8: Thomas Partridge (19200)
Seat 9: Mikhail Ustinov (21700)

Table 22
Seat 1: Antonio Buonanno (133800)
Seat 2: Antonin Teisseire (29100)
Seat 3: Aliaksei Turchak (24300)
Seat 4: Gael Monfils (27200)
Seat 5: Michael Keiner (39100)
Seat 6: Fabian Quoss (73500)
Seat 7: Patrick Bueno (53300)
Seat 8: Grayson Physioc (62900)
Seat 9: Sergey Pomerantsev (25200)

Table 23
Seat 1: Shixia Liu (50800)
Seat 2: Marco Jerovsek (52000)
Seat 3: Donald Markwardt (91450)
Seat 4: Nicolas Chouity (56800)
Seat 5: Philippe Narboni (95800)
Seat 6: Jonathan Fhal (31700)
Seat 7: Alexey Shirshov (36200)
Seat 8: Karolis Grybauskas (57900)
Seat 9: Nikolai Senninger (6170)

Table 24
Seat 1: Cherif Zacca (51700)
Seat 2: Ilya Bulychev (21100)
Seat 3: Andre Santos (62000)
Seat 4: Ton Kleijnen (68000)
Seat 5: Luca Giovannone (19800)
Seat 6: Leo Margets (119000)
Seat 7: Cristiano Blanco (14800)
Seat 8: Ola Billmont (47700)
Seat 9: Clayton Maguire (13900)

Table 25
Seat 1: Artur Balijan (52800)
Seat 2: Ramzi Jelassi (128200)
Seat 3: Pierre Canali (69100)
Seat 4: Fernando Brito (91900)
Seat 5: Christoph Pereira (127900)
Seat 6: Andrei Vlasenko (61600)
Seat 7: Neil Channing (106100)
Seat 8: Mikhail Aleksandrov (54000)
Seat 9: Domenico Iannone (25100)

Table 26
Seat 1: Vyacheslav Zukhov (12300)
Seat 2: Jens Kyllonen (43200)
Seat 3: Nabil Matta (59500)
Seat 4: Bryan Piccioli (117500)
Seat 5: Jorge Arias (55500)
Seat 6: Michael Skender (43100)
Seat 7: Nathan Royce Tuthill (55300)
Seat 8: Eric Ladny (44800)
Seat 9: Gabriel Nassif (17000)

Table 27
Seat 1: Liv Boeree (55500)
Seat 2: Sami Kelopuro (45100)
Seat 3: Marc Naalden (115500)
Seat 4: Daniel Groth (54500)
Seat 5: Harrison Gimbel (46300)
Seat 6: Salvatore Bonavena (156300)
Seat 7: Henri Kasper (32900)
Seat 8: Oleksander Vaserfirer (100800)
Seat 9: Katja Thater (17000)

Table 28
Seat 1: Gilbert Diaz (64900)
Seat 2: David Sands (90600)
Seat 3: Nikita Nikolaev (59100)
Seat 4: Mikhail Lakhitov (139500)
Seat 5: Joao Barbosa (20500)
Seat 6: Tommaso Briotti (175400)
Seat 7: Jose Ignacio Sanz Navazo (45600)
Seat 8: Zachary Clark (41000)
Seat 9: Joe Hachem (22400)

Table 29
Seat 1: Alexander Jung (80900)
Seat 2: Jorn Walthaus (72700)
Seat 3: Imad Derwiche (95900)
Seat 4: Gary Bain (32500)
Seat 5: Melanie Weisner (134000)
Seat 6: Bruno Launais (57000)
Seat 7: Vladimir Rybalchenko (14800)
Seat 8: Shaun Deeb (66700)
Seat 9: Adrian Popovici (10100)

Table 30
Seat 1: Marc Uzan (90000)
Seat 2: Emin Aghayev (36100)
Seat 3: Krzysztof Nega (36800)
Seat 4: Lauri Meidla (65100)
Seat 5: Ekaterina Kolobekova (130200)
Seat 6: Toby Lewis (137200)
Seat 7: Gustav Olsson (94500)
Seat 8: Andrew Baldacci (80200)
Seat 9: Richard Ashby (10000)

Table 31
Seat 1: Marcel Luske (55300)
Seat 2: Mike Sowers (83200)
Seat 3: Stephen Chidwick (32700)
Seat 4: Martin Hruby (74000)
Seat 5: Eric Esposito (83700)
Seat 6: Luis Felipe Ferreira De Andrade (91900)
Seat 7: Paul Berende (195500)
Seat 8: Arnaud Szybura (71500)
Seat 9: Zoltan Szabo (20700)

Table 32
Seat 1: Pavel Perfilov (102800)
Seat 2: Sergey Lebedev (47700)
Seat 3: Alex Kuzmin (26500)
Seat 4: Ake Olsson (41700)
Seat 5: Gustavo Zito (23800)
Seat 6: James Mitchell (55100)
Seat 7: Ramon Demon Cserei (102400)
Seat 8: Mike McDonald (18300)
Seat 9: Egill Einarsson (20900)

Table 33
Seat 1: Erica Schoenberg (76700)
Seat 2: Jean Francois Talbot (43400)
Seat 3: Dario Nittolo (109600)
Seat 4: Guillaume Dacheux (27600)
Seat 5: Omar Baioumi (134400)
Seat 6: Sergiy Baranov (136300)
Seat 7: Angel Hernandez Penalver (84600)
Seat 8: James Bowey (50100)
Seat 9: Konstantin Puchkov (12900)

Table 34
Seat 1: Philip Wiszowaty (91100)
Seat 2: Lex Veldhuis (65300)
Seat 3: John Hall (42900)
Seat 4: Kenneth Hicks (57000)
Seat 5: Nick Schulman (68000)
Seat 6: Harry Touil (79700)
Seat 7: Hayden Fortini (149400)
Seat 8: Pierre Neuville (62500)
Seat 9: Manilo Iemina (5100)

Table 35
Seat 1: Cornelius Eldering (99800)
Seat 2: Adam Lounis (40500)
Seat 3: Nick Binger (28700)
Seat 4: Dominykas Karmazinas (112600)
Seat 5: Harrison Kaczka (65700)
Seat 6: [Removed:413] (54000)
Seat 7: Allen Bari (94000)
Seat 8: Vanessa Rousso (28900)
Seat 9: Dani Abi Rached (13300)

Table 36
Seat 1: Mark De Faria (140000)
Seat 2: Stephane Benadiba (28000)
Seat 3: Thomas Mercier (79200)
Seat 4: Alfio Battisti (42500)
Seat 5: Besim Hot (31200)
Seat 6: Almos Szikrai (28200)
Seat 7: Carlos Lopez (27200)
Seat 8: Thierry Van Den Berg (30000)
Seat 9: Jennifer Lam (17100)

Table 37
Seat 1: Craig Mccorkell (51500)
Seat 2: Andrew Pantling (114200)
Seat 3: Kevin Eyster (86000)
Seat 4: Poli Rincón (71800)
Seat 5: Carter Phillips (26800)
Seat 6: Owen Crowe (40000)
Seat 7: Johan Van Til (140300)
Seat 8: Marko Neumann (77500)
Seat 9: Alexandru Baron (24100)

Table 38
Seat 1: Greg Dyer (72000)
Seat 2: Rocco Palumbo (59600)
Seat 3: Nicolas Levi (115800)
Seat 4: Paul Febers (34900)
Seat 5: Manuel Bevand (86600)
Seat 6: Thiago Decano (264200)
Seat 7: Anirudh Seth (48900)
Seat 8: Amanda De Cesare (19400)
Seat 9: Oscar Blanco (10500)

Table 39
Seat 1: Matthew Szymaszek (111900)
Seat 2: Stian Johannessen (77400)
Seat 3: Jason Lavallee (60700)
Seat 4: Thomas Ostling (31600)
Seat 5: Kristoffer Thorsson (30700)
Seat 6: Glen Chorny (49700)
Seat 7: Nicolas Dervaux (39100)
Seat 8: Yevgeniyy Timoshenko (128300)
Seat 9: Kenney Bryn (25400)

Table 40
Seat 1: Joshua Goldstein (38400)
Seat 2: Justin Smith (103900)
Seat 3: Laurent Leclec (87700)
Seat 4: Antonio Palma (169000)
Seat 5: Alessandro Sciolti (86300)
Seat 6: Alin Gabriel Grasu (80800)
Seat 7: Johnny Lodden (36400)
Seat 8: Joe Cada (123600)
Seat 9: Miguel Magan Tier (17400)

Table 41
Seat 1: Antoine Nahas (27700)
Seat 2: Anthony Gargano (76400)
Seat 3: Bohdan Kozhokar (28600)
Seat 4: Jonathan Tare (59100)
Seat 5: Georges Hanna (30000)
Seat 6: Serge Madec (39600)
Seat 7: Denis Aleksanrovich (72800)
Seat 8: Laurent Olive (71800)
Seat 9: Charlotte Roche (21600)

Table 42
Seat 1: Grigore Dan Adamescu (40800)
Seat 2: Ronald Grauer (19600)
Seat 3: Mats Sundin (83700)
Seat 4: Filip Nechansky (85100)
Seat 5: Egor Terekhine (23400)
Seat 6: Quinn Do (18800)
Seat 7: Anthony Guetti (44700)
Seat 8: Mel Judah (59000)
Seat 9: Maroun Jazzar (25500)

Table 43
Seat 1: Jan Collado (46500)
Seat 2: Aaron Gustavson (102800)
Seat 3: Eric Frantz (27100)
Seat 4: Jamie Michael Rosen (87200)
Seat 5: Yann Dion (80600)
Seat 6: David Steicke (104900)
Seat 7: Anatoli Gurtovoy (56700)
Seat 8: Carsten Joh (44700)
Seat 9: Debabeche Ahmed (23600)

Table 44
Seat 1: Alfonso Amendola (73000)
Seat 2: Christophe Gross (72300)
Seat 3: Jan Bendik (132300)
Seat 4: Guy Pariente (45500)
Seat 5: Gilles Haddad (87800)
Seat 6: Bjorn Verbakel (29500)
Seat 7: Kevin MacPhee (64800)
Seat 8: Daniel Conte (64100)
Seat 9: Rikard Relander (11300)

Table 45
Seat 1: Matthew Kay (51900)
Seat 2: Gary Marcum (26900)
Seat 3: Fowzi Baroukh (100300)
Seat 4: Karl Johan Bjorklund (59400)
Seat 5: Aaron Szerencses (13100)
Seat 6: Julien Studley (33600)
Seat 7: Petter Jetten (92300)
Seat 8: Gerard Gardelli (7700)
Seat 9: Laurence Houghton (22100)

Table 46
Seat 1: Roger Hairabedian (35900)
Seat 2: Eric Sadoun (79400)
Seat 3: [Removed:146] (94800)
Seat 4: Liam Flood (78200)
Seat 5: Farzad Bonyadi (72200)
Seat 6: Marc Trijaud (88300)
Seat 7: Mark Alexander Ioli (122400)
Seat 8: Humberto Brenes (67400)
Seat 9: Alessandro Licci (17400)

Day 2, We Love You

Ah, blessed sunshine.
Ah, blessed sunshine.
Good morning and welcome back to Le Sporting Club, where 413 players will shortly be merging from our two Day Ones and will be getting down to the serious business of trying to win it.

Chip leader at the moment is Thiago Nishijima, who on 264,200 is way out in front of his nearest rival, EPT San Remo go-deeper Paul Berende on 195,500. Also still in the running are various gems of poker talent, including Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Joe Cada, Neil Channing, Mats Sundin, Humberto Brenes and Marcel Luske.

128 places pay out, and although we're probably not going to get that far today, we won't be that far off - we'll be playing seven 75-minute levels, interrupted only by a dinner break. Play is due to resume at noon, and bags of chips are being distributed around the room now. Until then, please enjoy the Monte Carlo sunshine.

Level: 10

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

Marzocchi Gets Away With It

A slightly odd situation just occurred over on table 4. Allie Prescott had bet 4,600 on a {Q-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {3-Spades} before Stefano Marzocchi had declared 80,000 but had meant to just make it 8,000.

The floor was called and Marzocchi apologised, saying that his English was not very good. Unfortunately for him, the floor ruled that the verbal bet was binding and he was forced to move all-in.

Prescott now laughed out loud but looked slightly uncomfortable has he declared, "I'm gonna to have to call," as though he did not seem to happy about benefiting from another player's mistake.

Prescott: {K-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}
Stefano Marzocchi: {K-Clubs} {10-Spades}

The {J-Spades} appeared on the turn giving some chop possibilities and the {A-Clubs} river meant the pot was going to split between the two. Prescott could only laughed again as Marzocchi did not have to pay for his mistake.

Tags: Allie Prescott

Wishing They Had Missed The First Hand

Insta-exits today:

Yuriy Kozinskiy pushing with {A-?} {10-?} managed to make a pair of aces by the river, but Sander Lyloff's {K-?} {Q-?} had already hit both a king and a queen to eliminate him.

Luca Moschitta pushed with {K-Hearts} {10-Clubs} from the cutoff but David Sesso's {A-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} took him down on a {Q-Spades} {8-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} {3-Clubs} board.

Boeken Busto

Noah Boeken open-shoved from UTG +1 for 17,100 and found a caller from the small blind.

Boeken: {A-Hearts}{Q-Spades}
Opponent: {A-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}

The flop {10-Spades}{q-Clubs}{a-Clubs}, was a scary one for Boeken, even though he flopped top two. And his fears were confirmed when the {k-Clubs} fell on the turn. The meaningless {7-Hearts} hit the river and Boeken hit the rail.

Tags: Noah Boeken

Oh No, Dan-O!

A rather glum looking Dan O'Brien just came meandering over to our table, and we wondered what he was doing not tending to his starting stack of ~70,000.

"Well. Let. Me. Just. Tell you," O'Brien said. Here goes...

Russell Carson on the button had open-raised to 2,800, and Dan O'Brien three-bet to 8,200 out of the small blind. Carson moved all in for about 69,000, just barely covering O'Brien. Snap-call! Cards up:

Carson: {8-Diamonds} {8-Hearts}
O'Brien: {A-Hearts} {A-Clubs}

Flop: {4-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {8-Spades}.

Oh. Well, that's going to be hard to beat. The {2-Hearts} fell on fourth street, and Dan-O was already headed for the exit even before the {K-Hearts} came on the river.

Tags: Dan O'Brien

Jelassi Gets Early Present

With the board reading {6-Spades} {5-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} it was checked to Ramzi Jelassi on the button who bet 24,000 into a pot of about 30,000.

Christoph Pereira then check-raised all-in for over 80,000 more and Jelassi immediately let out a anguished cry, "Why didn't I just check?" he repeated several times before counting out his stack.

"Well," said the Swede, "I am most likely probably screwed. I call."

Pereira turned over {K-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} but Jelassi showed {6-Hearts} {5-Hearts} and requested another five on the river.

The {4-Diamonds} river changed nothing and Jelassi jumps up to about 215,000 and among the chip leaders.

Tags: Ramzi Jelassi

Gomes Stack Bisected

We arrived to see two players all in, one of them Alex Gomes. A third player was considering it, but he eventually thought better and folded. So, on their backs.

Gomes: {A-Diamonds} {K-Hearts}
His Opponent: {10-Spades} {10-Diamonds}

Flop: {5-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} - the non-Gomes player nodded.

Turn: {10-Hearts} and a murmur of "ooh"s rose around the table.

River: an irrelevant {7-Hearts}

"I did not like that," said Gomes' opponent as he raked in the 55,000 pot, presumably referring to the king on the flop rather than the ten on the turn. Gomes dropped to 60,000.

Tags: Alex GomesAlexandre Gomes