Don't forget that the EPT will be going Live from September 8th too...
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 1b
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Don't forget that the EPT will be going Live from September 8th too...
on a board of
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after facing a large bet on the river.Williams is very excited about his new found chips, but will have to wait a little while to ride out the momentum because he's now going on dinner break. We'll see if David can keep it up when he comes back.
and his opponent held
. The board ran out
allowing Minieri to double up.Minieri is now up to 73,000.
flop, only for his opponent to move all in for around 14,000. Holm stood up and made strange little anxious gestures, before closing his eyes and calling. He flipped
. His opponent, however, turned over
for the nuts.Turn:
River:
"Nice hand," said Holm, suddenly uncharacteristically subdued. Nevertheless, he is still on a very comfortable 66,000 or so.
We caught up with the action on the
flop where Jerney had either bet out or check-raised to 3,000. Either way, her opponent called, and they saw a turn.Turn:
Jerney bet out 2,000, and her plucky opponent called.
River:
Jerney bet out 2,000 again and this time her opponent made it 10,000. "Call," she announced, although she failed to actually put the chips in the middle before flipping her pocket kings. Nevertheless it was agreed that she had made the call, and duly paid up when her opponent turned over pocket jacks for a lucky rivered set.
, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier bet 2,525 into Ivan Demidov. The Russian made the call.The turn brought the
and ElkY checked. Demidov elected to bet 3,050 after tanking a minute to think things through. ElkY made the call.The river was the
and ElkY checked again. About minute in the tank went by before Demidov fired out 9,050. ElkY made the call and was shown a full house by Demidov. Ivan held
and flopped sixes full of eights. He is now up to 42,500 chips with ElkY dropping to 24,500.
. Julian Thew reraised from the small blind and the EPT San Remo winner moved all-in for about 16,000 total. Thew quickly called with
and the board blanked out.
Asa Smith -- previously down to around 16,000, the young Brit has clawed his way back up to 29,500, despite claiming the title of Most Moved Player Of The Day. He's on what we believe is his fourth table today, currently sharing with Liya Gerasimova and Guillaume de la Gorce.
Doing Less Well:
Constant Rijkenberg -- after peaking at 56,000, the esoterically hairstyled Rijkenberg has somehow lost over half his stack, and is right back down to 25,500.