€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

09-09-2009 14:20 UTC+2

First Blood - Carter!

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First hand and Carter Phillips raises to 95,000 from the cut-off. Toni Ojala and Marc Goodwin fold in the blinds.

09-09-2009 14:20 UTC+2

Ojala Doubles Through Smith

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Santiago Terrazas raises to 180,000 from his 540,000 stack and Asa Smith reraises to 450,000. Toni Ojala moves all-in. Santiago folds and Smith reluctantly calls.

Ojala: {A-Clubs}

Smith:

The board comes {J-Spades}

, Smith drops to 646,000 while Ojala is on about 1.7 million.

09-09-2009 14:21 UTC+2

Kapalas Moves All In, Comes Back Out Again

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Young Greek Georgios Kapalas shoved from the small blind, but big blind Mihai Manole wasn't interested and he picked up the blinds and antes.

Tags: Georgios Kapalas

09-09-2009 14:24 UTC+2

Mihai Manole Freerolls To Victory!

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Carter Phillips raises to 95,000 and Mihai Manole reraises all-in. Call.

Phillips: {A-Spades}

Manole:

The board is {Q-Diamonds}

and Manole's runner-runner flush doubles him up to 780,000.

Level: 26

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 5,000

09-09-2009 14:33 UTC+2

Current Chip Counts While the Live Feed Is Down

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Carter Phillips: 4,145,000
Marc Goodwin: 3,025,000
Matt Lapossie: 2,920,000
Toni Ville Ojala: 1,717,000
Georgios Kapalas: 845,000
Mihai Manole: 780,000
Asa Smith: 635,000
Santiago Terrazas: 310,000

09-09-2009 14:36 UTC+2

Lapossie Fully Awake and Getting Aggressive

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Matt Lapossie made it 120,000 under the gun, and it folded right around the table, letting him get away with it.

09-09-2009 14:40 UTC+2

Raise and Take for Kapalas

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Donnie Peters

Georgios Kapalas opened with a raise to 120,000 and well, everyone folded. Not much going on here, but he did rake in the blinds and antes. Next hand please.

Tags: Georgios Kapalas

09-09-2009 14:42 UTC+2

Big Raises

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Donnie Peters

Jason Mercier stopped by to do some live commentary of the final table. Upon arriving, the other announcer let Mercier know what has happened so far and that there was already a raise at the 20,000/40,000 level to 180,000.

"The blinds were 20/40 and he raised to what? One-hundred eighty?" commented Mercier.

Tags: Jason Mercier

09-09-2009 14:44 UTC+2