flop, seeing as Tulchinskiy held 
and Laak 
. The rest of the board came low, though, and Laak, who's grinded back a decent stack over the last two hours, just handed over a third of it again.
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, seeing as Tulchinskiy held and Laak . The rest of the board came low, though, and Laak, who's grinded back a decent stack over the last two hours, just handed over a third of it again.
and following it up with a bet of 20,500 on the turn 
after his opponent called the flop bet. Adding those chips to his stack moved Sahamies to 240,000. Mizzi's at 205,000, Phillips has 142,000, and Gerasimova is bringing up the rear with roughly 120,000.
I caught up with it at the turn of the
board, when Hlobil checked and Maugenest bet 6,000. Hlobil raised to 19,000 and stared blankly at the board; after a while Maugenest called.Hlobil checked again on the
river and then Maugenest bet 35,000. After a little while, Hlobil folded. Maugenest is up to 360,000.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Just before the dinner break, tennis legend Boris Becker shared his thoughts with our own Gloria Balding. Becker has been an Ambassador for PokerStars for more than a year now, and he is representing his sponsors well this week in Monte Carlo, running himself deep into the night here on Day 2. Here's what he had to say:
hit two pair on an 
flop. His opponent (slightly shorter stacked than him) got it all in on the 
turn, calling when Danzer moved all in. Sure enough, he had for top two pair, but when another hit the river it was no longer good. "Oooooh," went Danzer's entire table as he collected the spoils of the outdraw.A few hands later, Danzer took down a small pot on a flop of
with a bet of 8,000 and showed another two pair, 
. That pot increased his count to 344,000 and prompted Danzer to start talking to his neighbors. Danzer claims that he played forty "major" tournaments in a row without cashing, and that when the drought was finally broken, it wasn't in convincing fashion. "I crawled over the finish line," he said. But once he did that, he felt like the monkey was off his back.The field still has to be cut in half one more time in order for Danzer to make the money here in Monte Carlo, but those 344,000 chips put him in good shape.
"I'll tell you! Where is Isai [Pokerstars owner]? You tell me RIGHT NOW!" he shouted so loudly that the riffling and murmur of forty poker tables died down.
"Online poker is no longer f***ing rigged!" he nearly screamed, while pulling what looked like his white t-shirt up and over his head like Rorschach's mask in Watchmen. "If any of you take my picture, for your magazine, or your website, you'll be next!" he ended, as Thomas Kremser escorted him from the room.
250 perplexed poker players gave him a round of applause. I think he got his message the wrong way round, but he sure got their attention.
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.
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."
