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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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, a slight favorite against Bari's 
.The flop was
, which pulled Bari into the lead. He fell behind on the turn though, as the 
allowed the all-in opponent to exhale and take a new breath. He wasn't out of the woods yet. The forest came crashing down on fifth street. The 
peeled off the deck, re-improving Bari to the winning heart flush and sending yet another player to the exit here late in Day 1a. With that small pot, Bari has chipped up to about 17,000.
Kang:
Opponent:
Board:
Mikael Johansson: 28,000
Juha Helppi: 29,000
Doing less well:
James Akenhead: 5,350
Peter Hedlund: 4,600 (and drinking fine wines)
Doing somewhere in the middle:
Almira Skripchenko: 10,000
Joao Barbosa: 14,000
Alex Kravchenko: 13,000
David Saab: 10,850
flop, Benjamin Kang bet 5,100 -- only for Marcin Horecki to push all in for another 13,000. The Wall Of Media closed in around the table.Kang dwelled up for a really unreasonable amount of time and the clock was called; he was still dwelling when he timed out and his hand was folded for him.
Kang dropped to 21,000 while Horecki is up there with the chip leaders on 38,000.
. Everyone checked to the turn, which came . Chartier, and then the small blind, laid down their hands to a bet of 1,700 from the under-the-gun player.
, there were about 11,000 chips already piled in the center of the table. Mattern was first to act, and he checked to his lone opponent. The young, blond-haired player stacked out a technicolor bet of 9,500 chips, drawing a long pause from Mattern. "I feel like something was weird on the turn," he pondered. After two or three minutes, Mattern dropped in the calling chips, only to see his opponent turn over for the winning Broadway straight. Mattern simply nodded knowingly and slipped his cards back to the dealer. He has taken a step back to just under 12,000 chips now.
"You won't get them if you don't try," Horecki told the folder, pointing at his chips. One of the other players at the table must have taken that to heart; he made the call. All three players checked a big flop,
. On the turn , Horecki and the middle-position player again checked, but this time the player in late position bet 2,000. He showed one of his cards, a jack, after everyone else folded.
