Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
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One Mr. Daniel Negreanu of Team PokerStars Pro: Canada leads the way after that nasty cooler on the last remaining member of the Jerney clan propelled him to the top.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
||
|
688,000
118,000
|
118,000 |
|
455,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
|
450,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
404,000
344,000
|
344,000 |
|
|
400,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
395,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
382,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
|
||
|
370,000
-40,000
|
-40,000 |
|
350,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
|
|
340,000
157,000
|
157,000 |
|
340,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
|
|
||
|
340,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
330,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
310,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
310,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
300,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
|
300,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
280,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
|
|
||
|
280,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
278,000
178,000
|
178,000 |
|
|
275,000
-195,000
|
-195,000 |
|
|
||
|
272,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
260,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
260,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
We're getting down to the bubble now and every elimination looks like it's more disappointing than the last. Still, every player who's dropped between 91st and 86th has behaved with the utmost calm and there have been handshakes all round.
Alessio Di Cesare is one of those to narrowly miss out, and judging from the partial rubdown he got at the hands of eliminator Nacho Barbero it was due to some earlier advertising that he got called in his final hand. He'd moved in for 75,400 total over the top of Barbero's preflop raise with 
- Barbero made the call with 
, spiked the 
on the flop and held to eliminate him.
"You should never have showed [referring to a previous hand where presumably an outrageous bluff was perpetrated by Di Cesare]. I would never call you."
Di Cesare gently remonstrated that he did it on purpose: "I show...for provocation!"
Sigurd Eskeland busts out after nursing a short stack for a while (fleeting portions of sentences like, "best hand all day," "only one," came after his elimination) - he couldn't have found better than 
but unfortunately the 
which gave him a spin spiked the set to bust him within hailing distance of the prize money.
Georgios Kapalas just lost a prebubble pot to Luke Schwartz, who's kept hold of a stack which although never among the leaders (and usually below average by some way) has been at least steadily increasing. He may finish the day having grinded up to average if the last half hour of play pans out similarly...
Anyhow a raise to 8,500 from Balazs Csermely started off this pot; Kapalas threebet and Schwartz fourbet preflop out of the big blind. The 35k total eventually found a flat call from Kapalas and they saw a flop of 
. Both players checked, and on the 
turn Schwartz bet 25k. This too was called. The river was the and again both players opted to check, Schwartz showing down 
which was good. "I'm shoving most rivers," he admitted, but the King wasn't one of them.
The young and super talented Jeff Williams has just had a pre-bubble tangle with the slightly more mature and also super talented Peter Kamaras. Kamaras has had a good year winning over $150,000 and he is looking likely to add to that total if he keeps on making calls like the ones he has just made against Williams.
We catch the action slightly late - on the flop with a board of 
. Kamaras checks the action over to Williams who bets 19,000 and Kamaras calls. The turn is the 
and Kamaras again checks the action over to Williams and again Williams duly obliges and fires the second barrel of 29,300 and Kamaras calls. The river is and again Kamaras checks. The action is back to Williams and he can't bring himself to fire that third barrel and he checks also.
Kamaras: 
Williams: 
Kamaras takes the pot down with his pocket pair of eights.
Williams ~ 173,000
Kamaras ~ 348,000
It's bubble time! We are about to have 80 happy people and one unhappy person.
A big pot just ended in a manner which left Kyriakides Miltiadis shaking his head and out in 82nd place. It was the build-up which was the worst - at least five minutes of thinking by Team Pokerstars Pro Toni Judet on a board of 
. Kyriakides had bet all-in, 138k, into a pot which must have been close to that size already, and waited tensely while Judet thought, counted out the chips, rolled them around in his hand a while and finally called.
Kyriakides: 
for the flopped set, now a full house
Judet: 
for flopped top pair, now two pair
The river... ... . This provoked a half-hearted table slap from busto Kyriakides and some wincing round the table from players and spectators, as he doesn't even get a €8,000 mincash to soften the blow.
Actually, this hand went on so long it was officially the same hand in which we lost Kyriakides, but all the other tables were waiting quietly as a big think for Antonio Buonanno resulted in a double up...
The board: 
. Buonanno had bet out 65k and Bozo Bagaric had raised to 130k (with about that behind). Buonanno took at least three minutes to move his entire stack in, and Bagaric a fraction of the time to call with . He was in bad shape - Buonanno had for the second nut flush and he doubled up to a very healthy stack while Bagaric is in the chip danger zone now.
Media access to the Main Event is somewhat restricted now that we are hand for hand, but we managed to catch the river action, the board reading 
. Mihai Manole bet 50,000 and Jens Weigl thought about it for a long time - it was for most of his stack - before making the call. Manole turned over - and Weigl's couldn't cut the mustard. Manole took the pot, and Weigl was left with less than 20,000 - an unenviable position at this stage in the tournament.
"Actually it made me suspicious that you didn't put me all in," he told Manole; nevertheless he is left with less than five big blinds.