€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event Day 2 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Apr 30, 2009

Play Resumes

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Their lungs full of smoke, the players have returned for Level 11. 355 remain of the 535 who started the day.

Apr 30, 2009

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Apr 30, 2009

15 Minute Break

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Another level, another break... the players trudge blinking into the Monte Carlo sunshine (the curtains are now, sadly, closed).

Apr 30, 2009

That table (8) just vacated by Gould is pretty interesting, and handily right by my laptop, so when the crowds gather, I can sprint to the action...

Here are the collection of players at it (in both senses) now, in seat order:

Dennis Phillips - 108,000
Walid Bou Habib - 125,000
Sorel Mizzi - 103,000
Sergiy Polishchuk - 135,000
Liya Gerasimova - 30,000
Ilari Sahamies - 240,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg - 50,000
Jan Heisig - 54,000

Tags: Dennis Phillips

Apr 30, 2009

Peter Go-UL-d

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Peter Gould has just been eliminated by Ilari Sahamies, who in the closing minutes of this level has gone into overdrive, upping his stack to over 240,000. Gould's 68,000 is now part of that, after he got it in with {K-Diamonds}

vs. Sahamies' {A-Clubs}

. An ace on the river later, and Gould is shaking hands and shaking his head.

Tags: Ilari Sahamies Peter Gould

Apr 30, 2009

The Dearly Departed

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Missing and Presumed Busto

James Obst (unless he has somehow turned into J.J. Liu, who now occupies his seat).

Seen Giving Interviews on the Rail

Liz Lieu (knee-high leather boots for the win)
Alexia Portal (telling a riveting story, we're sure, but it's in French and our universal translator isn't working)

Apr 30, 2009

No Value for Joe

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"How can you check so many times?" a disappointed Joe Hachem asked his opponent. "How is that possible?" Hachem, sitting in the big blind, had called a late position raise to 3,000 with the remark, "Friends... for now." Both players checked the {K-Spades}

flop and the {A-Spades}

turn. Hachem checked a third time when the {3-Spades}

hit the river, then quickly called a bet of 4,100. His opponent turned over a pair of aces, {A-Clubs}

, a hand that Hachem beat with two pair, {J-Hearts}

.

"Well played," Hachem said as he collected the pot. "On the turn we play a big pot if you bet."

Tags: Joe Hachem

Apr 30, 2009

Here Be Chips

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Quite an interesting battle is shaping up in the middle of the room. All seated at the same table are:

Ami Barer - 250,000
Michael Tureniec - 228,000
Sami Kelopuro - 180,000

With the average stack at approximately 73,000 chips, that's a boatload of chips that are in play at one table. Yesterday, when David Williams and Nenad Medic each built up impressive stacks early (oddly, at the same spot of the room), a stalemate ensued until Medic was broken away from the table. Today we could wind up with a monster chip leader, since none of the three players is known for a lack of gamble or aggression.

Apr 30, 2009

Brown Down

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Chad Brown is busto after a dwell-call river combo on a board of {10-Clubs}

. His opponent Liviu Toderita had moved all in, and Brown was considering making the call. He did, muttering something about aces, but stared at the {Q-Hearts}