2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥a♠
Prize
€1,508,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,713,300
Entries
1,178
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
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Big Stack Watch

[user46392]
[user46392]
Asa Smith: 78,000 (appears to be our chip leader currently)

Tyler Cornell: 72,000 (says a tablemate, "Make sure you report that he got all those chips through talent, pure talent. Same way I got mine.")

Jonas Danielsson: dropped a little, but still going strong on 66,000

Level: 7

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Annette Obrest-Out

[user46392]
[user46392]
Annette - busted
Annette - busted
With the board reading {10-Clubs} {8-Spades} {2-Hearts}, Annette Obrestad bet 1,750 and was met by a raise of 4,000 from her opponent Benjamin Spindler (whom I earlier reported as Benjamin Spintler; apologies). After only a minute or two, another gentleman at the table called time, and after some brief thought, Obrestad called.

Obrestad: {A-Clubs} {A-Spades}
Spindler: {2-Clubs} {2-Spades}

Turn: {3-Clubs}
River: {9-Spades}

Spindler just had her covered, and so on the last hand before the break, Annette Obrestad busted out and won't be coming back on Day 2. "I wanna shoot myself, I played so bad..." she lamented to Arnaud Mattern and Ludovic Lacay as everyone else headed off to their break.

Tags: Annette ObrestadBenjamin Spindler

Mergioti Up To It Again

[user46392]
[user46392]
After a raise, a reraise and a call further down the table, Maurilio Mergioti made his favorite move and pushed for another 15,000 or so. Duly, everybody folded and he mucked his hand without showing.

We Present the Chip Leader

[user75032]
[user75032]
Jonas Danielsson
Jonas Danielsson
It's taken most of six levels, but we finally have a clear chip leader. Jonas Danielsson has managed to double his chips, and then double them again, and then double them again. He recently eliminated an opponent on the river with two pair to climb to 75,900 in chips. We haven't yet spotted a bigger stack in the room. With fewer than two levels left in Day 1a play, that makes Danielsson the odds-on favorite to claim the overnight chip lead.

Tags: Jonas Danielsson

Flying the Flag

[user46392]
[user46392]
Another player steaming ahead and happily bullying his table is young Englishman Asa Smith. A gent raised from the hijack and the cutoff called; Smith reraised from the button and the hijack gave it up, but the cutoff called and they saw a flop.

Flop: {5-Hearts} {9-Clubs} {K-Clubs}

The cutoff checked and Smith bet a hefty 5,200 -- a swift pass followed and Smith is sitting pretty on around 55,000.

Tags: Asa Smith

Saab Moves Up a Gear

[user46392]
[user46392]
Wandering past Dario Alioto's table, I couldn't help but notice that he was very short, down to just 2,300, while to his immediate right, David Saab had more than doubled up to around 30,000.

I didn't need to jump to any conclusions, though -- it turns out that Saab knocked out another player to amass those chips, and Alioto's misfortunes were nothing to do with him. Saab says that the player in question had been playing very loose-aggressively, and so when he made a small raise, Saab reraised him and he called.

They saw a {3-?} {4-?} {9-?} flop, which Saab absolutely loved as he was holding pocket threes and had made a set. His opponent checked to him and Saab bet, and when his opponent check-raised all in he had no choice but to call. His opponent was holding {5-?} {6-?} for an open-ended straight draw, but failed to hit the turn or river, hitting the rail instead.

Tags: David Saab

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