In an arm-wrestling contest. Score one for the Swedes...
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€3,832,000
Entries
479
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 479
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In an arm-wrestling contest. Score one for the Swedes...
flop, so she did the decent thing and went all in. All three limpers folded, though, and she merely picked up the blinds and limpy calls to leave her on a still desperate 6,000 or so.
putting him over 40,000.
Flop:
Mr. Under-the-Gun checked and de Wolfe bet 1,500. A call, and a turn.
Turn:
Again, Mr. Under-the-Gun checked, and this time de Wolfe made it 4,000 to go. Another call, and they saw the river.
River:
Once more, Mr. Under-the-Gun checked, and now de Wolfe, by this time chewing on the collar of his t-shirt, bet 10,500.
There followed a long dwell from Mr. Under-the-Gun, during which time he picked at his nails and looked very intense. Eventually he removed his shades and started giggling instead. "I think I have a read on you," he said -- but went ahead and folded.
De Wolfe is now up to 35,000.
Robinson opened to 600 from middle position and Johnny Lodden called on the button. The player in the small blind also called. The flop came down
. The small blind checked and Robinson continued his aggression with a bet of 1,100. Lodden flat-called before the small blind ducked out of the way.The turn brought the
and Robinson bet out again being first to act. He made it 4,200. Lodden again came along with a call.The river was the
and Robinson didn't slow down, increasing his bet size to 11,000. Lodden tanked. After about a minute, he raised to 33,000. Almost instantly, Robinson came back over the top, making it 72,000 to go. Lodden had between 18,000 and 20,000 chips left in his stack and was frozen. He tanked for several minutes while a small crowd gathered around the table. He kept checking his cards over and over. In the end, Lodden slid his hand in the middle and asked Robinson to see his cards. Robinson neglected to show and just gathered in the chips.As Robinson was stacking his stack of now 127,000, Lodden said, "You had to have jacks." Lodden then went on to say that he folded
for a full house on the river. "You just had to have jacks." he said.
. Pagano bet out 1,200 and then the player check-raised to 8,000. Pagano made the call after a minute of thought.The turn brought the
and again the first player checked. Pagano took some time, but then bet out 10,000, leaving himself with exactly 15,200 chips behind. His opponent took about half the time and jacked up the action to 40,000 strong. Pagano tanked, but eventually mucked his hand, having lost well over half his stack in the process.
, Atanas Gueorguiev check-raised to 6,200 after his opponent bet 2,250. The player then came back over the top of Gueorguiev to put him all in. Gueorguiev called for his last 10,550 holding 
. His opponent held 
.The turn came the
and the river the , blanking for Gueorguiev. He was sent to the rail having been eliminated from the tournament.
The board read
and Galic's opponent was all in when we caught up with the action. He flipped 
, but Galic had him beat with 
and is back up to 82,000.
