Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
2008 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona Open
EPT Barcelona Open Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€4,952,000
Entries
619
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 619
Filter
on the turn, Johannes Strassmann led into Mike "Timex" McDonald with a 4,000 bet. After thinking over his decision for several minutes, McDonald shrugged, saying, "I can't fold this," while pushing his entire stack of red 1,000 chips into the middle, setting Strassmann all in. He quickly called, turning up 
to McDonald's 
. The river was the 
and Strassmann earned the double-up. However, the dealer pulled McDonald's whole stack of reds into the pot without counting down Strassmann's stack first to determine how much McDonald owed the pot. As he began to push it to Strassmann, McDonald, as well as the man on his left, Jason Mercier, piped up, saying that McDonald should be getting some of those reds back.
While the dealer took on a sort of "deer in the headlights expression," McDonald, Strassmann, and Mercier re-created the pot themselves, which indeed resulted in McDonald being refunded some of those red chips.
After all the dust settled, McDonald was left with 9,500 while Strassmann was up to 19,000.
The flop came
and Rheem led out for 1,800. The cutoff player moved all in for roughly 5,300 and after a quick fold by the blinds, Rheem said, "I call" as he turned over 
.The cutoff seat looked disgusted as he tabled
. As he started to stand, the turn fell the 
and Rheem said, "You got outs." The 
on the river was not one of them however as Rheem's full house was best. He took down the pot and took his chip stack to just over the 40,000 mark.
against . With two limpers before him, Teltscher raised it up to 1,700 before being reraised by the big blind for... "It's not even 3,500." After both players had wished each other good luck, with a probable sense of insincerity, the dealer popped out a
flop, followed by a 
("Nine of diamonds," was the demand), before a 
river sealed the deal.
Coren:
Opponent:
The flop sealed the deal as it fell
. The turn and river came the and 
respectively, and Vicky Coren made her way out of the tournament area.
Benyamine thought for well over a minute, counting down his remaining chips multiple times before finally folding his hand. He was left with just under 14,000 chips after the hand.
