2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
€850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€3,832,000
Entries
479
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Negreanu Continues To Play Small Ball

Nothing small about Negreanu's stack now -- 82K
Nothing small about Negreanu's stack now -- 82K
A player in middle position opened to 2,100 and Daniel Negreanu flatted on the button. The flop came down {K-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {2-Hearts}. The player bet 2,300 into Negreanu. Negreanu made the call.

The turn came the {2-Spades} and the player bet again, this time for 3,500. Negreanu called again.

The river was the {9-Hearts} and Negreanu called a bet of 7,000 from his opponent. The player turned up {K-Clubs} {9-Clubs} for two pair, but Negreanu held {A-Clubs} {A-Spades} for a better two pair. Negreanu moved up to 82,000 on the hand.

He has been given a little flack from Lex Veldhuis about his small-ball strategy and after the hand mentioned, "You would've liked that one, Lex. You see it?"

Lex commented that he saw it after the flop, but also made a reference that Negreanu might've been able to get a lot more chips than he did had he raised at any point in the hand.

Tags: Daniel NegreanuLex Veldhuis

Liu Doubles Up

Things are Liu-king up for JJ
Things are Liu-king up for JJ
JJ Liu has doubled up to stay in the game on 15,000 or so. We're not sure when the chips went in, but however it played out, she was holding {K-?} {7-?} and her opponent pocket threes; the board came down {A-?} {6-?} {9-?} {8-?} {5-?} to give Liu the straight.

Tags: JJ Liu

Muy Bueno as Eastgate Hits the Rail

Eastgate - philosophical
Eastgate - philosophical
Peter Eastgate had some poor fortune and is now wandering the casino floor, no longer in the running for the EPT crown.

Most of the damage was done when he doubled up another player, the chips going in preflop. Eastgate held pocket {8-Diamonds} {8-Spades}, but the all-in gent was holding pocket {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds} and with no help from the {2-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} {9-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {4-Clubs} board, all in stayed in and Eastgate was down to roughly the 10-big-blind mark.

A few hands later he open-shoved in early position with {Q-Hearts} {J-Spades} and found himself called by Patrick Bueno on the button holding pocket {10-Spades} {10-Hearts}. He was coinflipping, but Bueno's tens held up, hitting an unnecessary set on the river of the {5-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {A-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} board to knock out the world champ.

Tags: Patrick BuenoPeter Eastgate

Visser Busted

Ruben Visser, the Dutch pro, has been eliminated by Dario Minieri. Visser pushed from the button with {6-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} but Minieri had {Q-Spades} {Q-Clubs} and ran out the victor on the {K-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} {3-Spades} {A-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} board.

Pieter de Korver Eliminated

Pieter de Korver - eliminated
Pieter de Korver - eliminated
A player opened with a raise to 2,100 and then Pieter de Korver moved all in for roughly 11,000. The player to Korver immediate right snap-called the all-in bet. The original raiser then open-folded pocket tens. Unfortunately for Korver, he also held pocket tens. The player that called the all-in bet held pocket kings.

Korver failed to improve on his longshot and was eliminated from the tournament.

Tags: Pieter de Korver

Basebaldy's First Trip to Europe Going Well

Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin stopped in with Melissa Castello just before his dinner break to give us some insight to his first trip ever to Europe. Eric seems to be enjoying his trip and so far he's doing well in the tournament, although it's taken him a little extra time to figure out some of the European players.

Tags: "basebaldy"Eric Baldwin

Schaefer Takes A Chunk From Williams

This pot was no close Schaef-er
This pot was no close Schaef-er
On the turn of a {3-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {10-Spades} {5-Clubs} board, Brandon Schaefer bet 6,200 and David Williams made the call. The river was the {9-Spades} and Schaefer bet 13,500 this time, Williams gave it some thought before calling but mucked when he saw Schaefer's {10-Hearts} {10-Diamonds}.

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

Negreanu Eliminates Opponent

On the river of a {2-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} {K-Clubs} board, Daniel Negreanu bet 11,000, enough to set his Spanish opponent in.

His opponent looked at him hard before eventually calling all-in with {K-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} for a busted flush draw that had rivered top pair but Negreanu was holding {Q-Hearts} {9-Hearts} for a turned two pair to increase his stack.