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€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Total Entries
935
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 935
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There were several contenders for chip leader near the end, but it looks like Dutch player Marc Naalden got there in the final hour, topping 750,000 and pipping Annette Obrestad from the top spot going in to the third day's play. In a day where we've gone from 530 players down to just 149, the excellent new structure hasn't stopped players busting out with alacrity in all kinds of dramatic ways. The atmosphere here just gets more exciting (and the rail gets thicker and swarmier, but that's a problem for tomorrow).
Will Marc Naalden convert his Day 2 chip lead into a Day 3 chip lead? His experience could well pay off, as he won the Pokernews Alpine Cup this year. The field is still full of top-class players from all over the world, however. Join Pokernews.com tomorrow at noon for more live coverage of the action as they play down to four tables here in the beautiful surroundings of the Sporting Club at the Monte Carlo Bay Resort.
board. Said player has 130,000 left to his name, while Obrestad is up to around 600,000.
while in the small blind and facing a raise from the button. The button called and it looked like 
, although the dealer mucked his cards pretty swiftly after this reporter's arrival at the table. Either way, the board was 
and Mizzi took it down.
. Optimistic, maybe, but there was still a tense few seconds as Kelopuro's 
had to hold.It did. He's back in the thick of things with almost 300,000.
against Dave Atrubin's 
and failing to hit any part of the 
board.
The action was caught with a pretty big pot already in the middle, and a pretty big bet coming from Naalden after it was checked to him on the turn with the board standing
. 90k in fact was the bet, and his opponent then moved in for just 50k more. With over 220k in the pot, Naalden looked like he'd just sucked a lemon, but he did make the call. All in player:
Naalden:
The river:
There was not one word until one chair had been vacated and one big pot shipped, and then Naalden said, "Oops," recommended as a commentary on the hand by his neighbour Dag Palovic (who's now wearing a scarf tied round his head like a bandanna for some reason).
He took his shirt off and screamed an assortment of entirely incomprehensible things. Everyone thought they were going to die, but instead our crazy guy was arrested and led off in cuffs. Good lord.
Incidentally, back in the tournament area, Phil Laak called over TD Thomas Kremser.
"So, if that guy had pulled out a machine gun and killed like 83 poker players, obviously you'd pause the clock while the ambulances came and took everyone to hospital, but those guys that didn't make it... Would they get a refund?"
Kremser considered for a while. "No, we would wait and see who came back from hospital and then see what to do. Unless I am killed, the tournament director."
Tureniec:
Barer:
It was the turn card that killed Tureniec on a board of
. His chips went into Barer's stack and he went out of the room and the tournament. Barer is up to 340,000.
