2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

€5,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 2
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Event Info

2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
8♦7♦
Prize
€774,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Entries
570
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
8,000
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French Revolution

[user4144]
[user4144]
Manuel Bevand - chip leader
Manuel Bevand - chip leader
Manuel Bevand is your new chip leader with 220,000 and boasts a stack so impressive that it makes the Great Wall of China look small.

His land saw him raising short-stacker George David Abdallah all in on a {2-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{2-Spades}. Abdallah let it go, although reluctantly so.

Tags: Manuel Bevand

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Clubbed To Death

[user76023]
[user76023]
On the river of an {A-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {3-Clubs}, Roberto Machado bets 20,000 with around 30,000 already in the pot. Fredrik Nygard thinks for a moment before reraising all-in. Machado folds instantly.

Finally, A Real Hand...

[user76023]
[user76023]
On the turn of a {A-Spades} {7-Spades} {3-Hearts} {2-Hearts} board, Nikolaos Panopoulos bets 10,000 against Ludovic Lacay. After a think, the Frenchman raises to 35,000 and Panopoulos sits up in his chair.

"How much do you have left?" he asks.

"Around thirty-five, maybe forty," comes the reply.

Panopoulos, clearly not too happy with his hand elects for a fold and Lacay says to him, "Finally! Finally I beat you in a pot. And I had to find a real hand to do it with!"

He then turns over {J-Clubs} {8-Spades} with a smile.

Tags: Ludovic Lacay

Machado Survives

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One player nearing the felt is Portugal's Roberto Machado. With Jorge Luque making it 4,400 from the button, Machado pushed from the small blind for around 30,000. Fredrik Nygard asked for a count in the big blind before eventually folding what he claimed to be "a middle pair", and Luque folded too.

Tags: Roberto Machado

Emanuele Rugini Eliminated

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Juha Helppi raised from the button only to be priced in by Emanuele Rugini, who slid his short-stack all in from the big blind.

After disagreeing as to who was in front, Rugini eventually turned over {A-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}, which was a country mile ahead of the Fin's {8-Spades}{6-Spades}. But 'ahead' soon turned to 'behind' as the flop came {6-Hearts}{4-Spades}{7-Hearts} to give Helppi second pair and the gutshot straight draw. "That's a good flop," observed Helppi astutely.

No change on the {J-Hearts} turn and {2-Diamonds} river and that was all she wrote for Rugini.

Tags: Emanuele RuginiJuha Helppi

Big Slick No Good?

[user76023]
[user76023]
Charbel Al Chagoury raises to 3,500 from early position, only for Domenico Iannonne to reraise to 20,000 behind him. Now on top of that, [Removed:197] pushes all-in from the blinds for 60,000. Chagoury looks flummoxed but folds and Iannonne begins to tank. It would cost him virtually all his stack to call, but in the end he decides to preserve the remaining 40,000 or so and folds {A-Diamonds} {K-Spades} face up.

Does He Juan't A Call?

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[user76023]
Jeffrey Sarwer raises on the button to 4,000 and Juan Maceiras reraises to 16,000 from the small blind. Sarwer takes a long time to think, and Maceiras gets restless and stands up.

"Come on, let's gamble! Put it in! Or just call," says the Spaniard, offering various ways of getting his opponent to put chips in the middle. As he continues to talk to Sarwer, Juha Helppi has enough and calls for time. But Sarwer, who ventures an opinion that Maceiras has {A-?} {K-?} says, "It's no problem, I fold."

Maceiras rakes the pot and tells his opponent, "You were right."

Tags: Juan Maceiras

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