2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 3
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

Samer Stack, Different Size

Samer Rahman, formerly above the million chip mark, must have taken a few hits here and there -- he's down to 770,000.

Most recently he raised to 26,000 in early position, but David Robinson moved all in for around 200,000 from the big blind and a gently smiling Rahman passed.

Ain't It Nice to Be Boubli

It looks as though Jan Boubli raised first, as we arrived to see an 85,000 reraise in front of Matt Lapossie and Boubli moving all in. Lapossie thought about it, and called the extra 180,000 or so.

Boubli: {A-Clubs} {Q-Clubs}
Lapossie: a rather esoteric {4-Clubs} {6-Clubs}

Board: {J-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {2-Hearts}

An easy double up puts Boubli up to around 600,000.

Tags: Jan BoubliMatt Lapossie

It's All Greek To Me

Just before the break Tobias Reinkemeier raised to 20,500 preflop. Georgios Kapalas made it 57,000 before the German 4-bet to 128,500.

After a long think, which took us into the break, Kapalas made the call.

The flop was {8-Spades} {5-Spades} {K-Spades} and both players slowly checked.

The {J-Clubs} on the turn was checked by Reinkemeier and after a couple of minutes of thought, Kapalas made it 125,000 and Reinkemeier folded after more thought.

Level: 19

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

Cirstea Has Some Trouble Accepting That He Is Busto

How about a sit down and a nice cup of Cirs-tea?
How about a sit down and a nice cup of Cirs-tea?
Constantin Ciprian Cirstea (he listed himself as both Constantin Cirstea and Ciprian Cirstea at various different times, giving the media a variety of headaches and leading to the above compromise) raised, and the newly doubled up Georgios Kapalas reraised. Cirstea pushed, and without hesitation Kapalas called.

Cirstea: {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}
Kapalas: {K-Clubs} {K-Spades}

Board: {8-Clubs} {5-Spades} {Q-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {J-Spades}

Cirstea stood there for a moment while the dealer started to rake his chips over to Kapalas. Only then did he claim, in perhaps a last desperate attempt to stay in the tournament, that Kapalas had not had him covered. It was far too late for angle-shooting, though, and the very professional dealer calmly explained that owing to his double up a few hands before, Kapalas had had 350,000 at the start of the hand, covering Cirstea by around 100,000. Cirstea gave it up, and exited the tournament area.

Kapalas Cops a Double Up

With viewing becoming increasingly difficult owing to the number of random railers who, despite Thomas Kremser's best attempts to keep them out of the tournament area, keep sneaking in -- it was with a superhuman effort of standing on tiptoes and craning that we managed to witness Georgios Kapalas doubling through David Robinson, his {A-Diamonds} {K-Spades} staying good against Robinson's {A-Clubs} {Q-Clubs}.

Board: {J-Clubs} {5-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} {J-Spades} {4-Spades}

Kapalas is now up to 325,000, while the hapless Robinson is down to less than 300,000.

ElkY Doubles Kers

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier raised to 18,000 from under the gun and action folded around to Pontus Kers in the small blind. Kers moved all in for 92,500 total. The big blind got out of the way and then ElkY made the call.

ElkY tabled {A-Hearts} {3-Hearts} while Kers tabled {8-Spades} {8-Hearts}.

The board ran out {6-Spades} {4-Hearts} {2-Spades} {K-Diamonds} {10-Spades}, allowing Kers to double up to around 200,000.

Tags: "ElkY"Bertrand GrospellierPontus Kers