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Just two tables over, Michael "Timex" McDonald was the player in the big blind facing a raise of 850. He called, then check-folded to a bet of 1,400 when the dealer produced a flop of
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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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Just two tables over, Michael "Timex" McDonald was the player in the big blind facing a raise of 850. He called, then check-folded to a bet of 1,400 when the dealer produced a flop of
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All in good time, group three.
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
"You had to do it on my blind, didn't you?" the big blind asked.
"It's just when the cards come," replied Brown. His opponent decided he needed chips almost as badly as Brown, and he made the call.
At Kravchenko's table, his
was ahead of the big blind's 
and stayed that way on a board of 
. The ending was not so happy for Brown; his 
was up against the big blind's 
and in serious trouble after an ace flopped, 
. The 
on the turn made things interesting, but Brown departed with a river blank, the 
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A player in early position raised to 1,200 and was called by one middle-position player. D'Angelo was sitting in the big blind and put in a large raise of his own, to 3,800. The early-position player asked for a count on D'Angelo's stack (about 15,000 total) then raised to 20,000 straight. That raise folded the middle-position player but elicited a quick call from D'Angelo, who turned over
. D'Angelo's opponent groaned before showing down 
. There was no ace anywhere to be found on a board of 
. D'Angelo is now among the top of the chip stacks with roughly 30,000.
when the board came down 
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Most recently at Table Hedlund, a double up for Benjamin Spindler. He got it in preflop with
against an opponent's and Peter Hedlund was loudly praying for a double-up for the short stack. It seems the poker gods were listening, as the board came down 
. "How many full houses do you have there," wondered Hedlund, who appears to have no filter between his mind and his mouth. Any full house would be good enough, though, and Spindler stays in the game.
Early in the day, PokerNews' Gloria Balding set the stage and took a quick look around the tournament room:
Head over to PokeNews TV for more videos from San Remo and other PokerStars.com events around the world.
"S**t! Three minutes in already?" wailed Peter Hedlund as he dashed back to his seat (although he immediately jumped back out of it and went over to chat to someone on the other side of the table). Indeed I saw more athleticism as players legged it back to their tables at the start of level five than I believe I have ever witnessed before at an EPT. Good to know players are getting some exercise.
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