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Alioto:
Vlad From Ukraine:
Board:
2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo
€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,713,300
Total Entries
1,178
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 1,178
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Alioto:
Vlad From Ukraine:
Board:
Showdown:
Mercier:
Opponent:
The board ran out safe for the defending champ's underpair, coming
. With that, Mercier sends one to the rail, chipping his way up to about 12,000 in the process.
board, only for Jussi Jaatien to move all in for another 11,800, just covering McDonald. After some brief tank time to himself, McDonald called, and it was to be his end.McDonald:
Jaatien:
River: an irrelevant
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
. The pot went to McEvoy when he made a full house on a board of 
. The double-up puts McEvoy's count at roughly par, 22,000.
board. He flipped 
for the nut flush; his disappointed opponent showed him the 
that he couldn't get away from.
Gloria Balding has been hard at work on Day 1a of EPT San Remo. Here she chats with Jesper Hougaard, who recently suffered an accident and had shoulder surgery.
, the big blind bet 2,000. Hedlund said, "OK, I'm all in" and shoved his chips into the middle in a pile. The dealer counted them down as 4,800.Hedlund, chugging from a glass of wine, waited patiently while his opponent pondered a call. "Ace-king?" he finally surmised. "No straight draw. No flush draw." It appeared he was trying to talk his opponent into a fold. The problem for Hedlund's opponent was that there was about 15,000 chips in the pot. He was getting better than six-to-one odds to call, so call he finally did.
Hedlund made top pair of jacks with
. That left him in excellent shape against the big blind's . The board ran out to make Hedlund the winner. "Oh my god," the big blind sighed in disgust. "What a call."
"Yeah, it was dumb," Hedlund agreed. "But I'm drunk." A friend of Hedlund's turned up at that moment, to Hedlund's great delight. "Now we start drinking heavily!" he shouted.
board, and then called the push from his opponent. Bosco turned over 
for a rivered two pair, and his horrified opponent showed 
for a lower two pair. "Come on, 4,000 on the turn?" spat out the very angry and now busted opponent. "Pft!" He stormed off, and Bosco began to giggle...
