flop to 55k, and sat without flinching through a lengthy, intense staredown before Sahamies passed.
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
Entries
935
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 935
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flop to 55k, and sat without flinching through a lengthy, intense staredown before Sahamies passed.
Well, it has turned out to be a stalemate. The three players have been passing chips back and forth all day, never really gaining an edge against each other. The current tally has Tureniec back in the lead with 305,000. He's followed by Barer's 210,000. Kelopuro has drawn the short straw with just 125,000.
board with 
, which stayed in front of Becker's 
.
"He said 'all in'?" Brenes asked. "I say call."
MP:
Brenes:
Brenes let out a groan upon seeing his opponent's hand. Once the board ran out queen-high and no help, he wished everyone good luck and then walked away from the table, muttering Spanish expletives under his breath.
After taking down a raised pot with a bet of 15,000 on a flop of
, Hachem showed 
."That's my first pair all day!" Hachem told the table. "Can you believe that? The very first one. I've had ace-king a lot."
.Dahan instantly spiked an ace, and doubled through while Palovic gave him a quiet mini-rant, "Ace-nine, ace-deuce, ace-four, wow guys!" (there's a prior story in which two shortish stacks got it in preflop with
vs. 
- the deuce paired on the river for added drama)."This your first tournament?" asked Palovic.
"Yes."
[pause]
"Ok then. I see."
Boris Becker: absolute zero
Mikael Norinder: 350,000
Luca Pagano: 167,000
Phil Laak: 265,000
Nenad Medic: 70,000
Isabelle Mercier: 80,000
Lee Nelson: 285,000
Asa Smith: just 35,000
Michael Greco: 190,000
Ami Barer: 222,000
Ted Lawson: back down to 45,000
board. When the river fell , Barer led out for 8,900 and Tureniec called."Ace-ten," said Barer, showing
for a turned pair of tens. Tureniec mucked, leaving the counts at:Barer - 230,000
Tureniec - 255,000
Kelopuro - 225,000
board, on the river of which Kelopuro bet 59,400 from the button. After some thought, twirling a chip around on the top of his rather phallic stack of yellow 5,000 chips, Pasqualini folded, leaving himself with 180,000.
And here is a seamless passage from Canadian to French chip counts via a French-Canadian:
Norman Gautron - 250k
Isabelle Mercier - 67k
Ludovic Lacay - 190k.
