€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event Day 2 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

09-06-2009 18:42 UTC+3

Early Night?

[user46392]

This EPT is currently progressing at breakneck speed -- from 240 starters today, we're down to just 104 already.

Although we are meant to be playing six 75-minute levels today, play will stop for the evening if and when we make the money, at 72 places. Fingers crossed...

09-06-2009 18:46 UTC+3

Woodward Must Lose Sometimes

[user46392]

We're not sure how it happened, but former chip monster Matt Woodward has taken a significant hit. At roughly double the average, though, the 265,000 stack he's in possession of right now is still nothing to be ashamed of...

Tags: Matt Woodward

09-06-2009 18:47 UTC+3

Slowing Down

[user76023]

The pace of the tournament has really slowed down in the last half hour or so. The average stack is almost 140,000 (over 50BB's). With around four tables until the money, some of the players are starting to have one eye fixed on the payouts.

09-06-2009 18:50 UTC+3

What a Quoc

[user46392]

Quoc Nguyen has doubled to 75,000 through a very unhappy Michael Greco. It's not clear when the chips went in, but we'd guess before the flop or on it.

Greco: {10-Clubs}

Nguyen:

Board:

Tags: Michael Greco Quoc Nguyen

09-06-2009 19:02 UTC+3

Interesting Hand Evaporates into Air

[user46392]

Laurence Houghton raised to 6,400 under the gun, and once Dominik Nitsche and big blind Dmitry Stelmak had called, it had all the makings of a very interesting hand.

However, things are not always what they appear, and they somehow managed to check down the {2-Diamonds}

board, and Nitsche took the pot with a pair of sevens.

09-06-2009 19:20 UTC+3

Samer Pays Off Quads

[user76023]

Samer Rahman just lost a a decent amount of his stack. He tanked and used almost the whole of the minute of a clock called on him before calling 40,000 on the river of a {A-Clubs}

board.

His opponent flipped {A-Diamonds}

and Samer mucked declaring, "Nines..."

09-06-2009 19:24 UTC+3

Lex Rams Kings Into Aces

donpeters

Diego Rodriguez raised to 6,500 from early position before Lex Veldhuis three-bet to 19,000. The cutoff, Yohann Yoci [Removed:250], flat-called the three-bet and action folded back around to Rodriguez. He put in another raise and made it 51,000 to go. Lex studied [Removed:250] the most as action fell back on him, staring at him to get a read. Then, Veldhuis five-bet to 204,000 with two giant stacks of chips. [Removed:250] moved all in from the cutoff and Rodriguez quickly folded.

Lex was visible upset when [Removed:250] went all in, as if he just knew he had aces. Veldhuis turned up {K-Spades}

and was met by [Removed:250]'s aces -- {A-Spades}

.

The board ran out {A-Diamonds}

and Lex was out a total of 132,300 chips. He now has about 360,000 left.

Tags: Diego Rodriguez Lex Veldhuis Yohann Yoci Azoulay

09-06-2009 19:30 UTC+3

Lucky Eights for ElkY

[user46392]

We caught up with the hand on the {5-Spades}

flop, with ElkY betting out 8,400 from the small blind. Two seats down in the under the gun position, Diogo Borges raised 15,000 more. Back to ElkY, who made it another 15,000 to go.

Borges disappeared into the tank as a Wall Of Media materialized around the table. After some minutes of Borges sighing and media personnel craning to see, Borges moved all in. Insta-call.

Borges: {A-Clubs}

ElkY: