€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event Day 2 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

04-20-2009 21:40 UTC+3

No Zarembo

[user22113]

Under the gun, Mario Albanese opened the pot with a raise. The betting folded around to the button where Michal Zaremba moved all in for an additional 32,100. When it came back to Albanese, he would take several minutes of careful consideration before making the call, having his opponent covered by just a few thousand chips. Zarembo rolled over {J-Clubs}

, and Albanese stood up and slapped his {Q-Clubs}

onto the felt with vigor. The young Pole sunk in his chair upon seeing the bad news, drawing extremely slim for his tournament life.

The dealer ran out a clean flop for the leading overpair: {10-Clubs}

. Zarembo could do nothing to come from behind, and he has been sent to the rail just after his dinner break.

Tags: Michal Zaremba

04-20-2009 21:37 UTC+3

Horecki Dodges Trouble

[user75032]

Marcin Horecki, one of the few Team PokerStars Pros left in the field, was the only caller of a preflop raise to 6,000. Horecki is getting somewhat short on chips and is carefully playing his pots. The flop came down {K-Diamonds}

and brought a bet of 8,000 from Horecki's opponent. He calmly considered his options, looked at his 48,000 remaining chips, and then folded his hand. His opponent flipped over two kings in the hole.

Tags: Marcin Horecki

04-20-2009 21:30 UTC+3

Gettin' There

[user22113]

The tournament clock now shows that 178 players remain, meaning that 1,000 poor souls have already made the walk of shame since play began on Saturday. The pace of the knockouts today is truly impressive, and it's looking like Days 3 and 4 will be short ones indeed. Still, we'll need to lose 78 more players before hitting the money, a feat that we will likely fall just short of before play concludes for the night.

04-20-2009 21:14 UTC+3

O'Brien Still Fighting

[user75032]

Dan O'Brien has been grinding his gears all days, trying to get something -- anything! -- started. He just doubled up by getting {A-Spades}

all in against {Q-?}

on a queen-high flop. O'Brien's opponent did not improve from top pair and had to pay off a total of 17,500 chips. Combined with the pot, those chips increased O'Brien's stack to roughly 50,000.

Tags: Dan OBrien

04-20-2009 21:07 UTC+3

Losev Cries Uncle

[user75032]

Nikolay Losev tried two times to shake his opponent. On a flop of {6-Hearts}

, Losev check-raised his opponent from 2,500 to 6,500 but couldn't induce a fold. He tried again with a bet of 10,000 when the turn filled a possible flush draw with the {4-Hearts}

, but again his opponent called. Both players checked the {J-Spades}

river, with Losev mucking upon being shown {A-Spades}

.

Tags: Nikolay Losev

04-20-2009 21:04 UTC+3

Missing in Action

[user75032]

Marcel Luske never returned from the dinner break. That would be more surprising were there chips in front of his seat. It seems he busted just before the first half of the field was sent to eat.

Tags: Marce Luske

04-20-2009 20:49 UTC+3

Visser Piece of Luck

[user46392]

A lucky escape for Ruben Visser after he got it in with {A-?}

and got called by a gent holding {A-?}

. He was ready to leave when a queen came down on the flop, but there was a jack there too and by the river both players had made a broadway straight to chop the pot.

04-20-2009 20:47 UTC+3

Less for Mauro

[user46392]

Mauro Corsetti is down to 45,000 after getting most of his chips in by the turn of an ace-high board. His timing then ran out after the clock was called on him as he faced a big bet.

04-20-2009 20:35 UTC+3

Maceiras Gives Back

[user66118]

Juan Maceiras has been in control of his table for much of the evening, and his chip stack has benefited from his environment. We joined the action at his table to see that the big blind had put out a raise to 7,500 after Maceiras had apparently limped in from the button. We arrived just in time to see the Spaniard put in a reraise to 25,000. This move prompted the big blind to go deep into the tank, sitting near-motionless for several minutes. Finally, someone at the table spoke up with a quick, "Time," and the floor person made his way over. As he counted down through five... four... three... the big blind splashed the calling chips into the pot, leaving himself just 4,000 funny money to play with.

The flop brought {8-Diamonds}

. The big blind didn't seem to like it, but he did indeed move all in with those 4,000 chips; Maceiras quickly called.

Showdown:
Maceiras: {6-Spades}

Opponent:

The turn and river were the {K-Spades}

and

respectively, safe for the all-in player. With that, Maceiras shipped a courtesy double up over to his opponent, slipping back just a bit. Still, he's in decent shape with his stack of 71,000.

Tags: Juan Maceiras

04-20-2009 20:23 UTC+3

It's for Chariddy

[user46392]

Currently underway in the back room, making it rather difficult to get to and from the press room, is the charity tournament. The press don't mind, though, as it's all for a good cause.

140 runners have each coughed up the €1,000 buy in, plus a €200 'registration fee' that will go directly to help the victims of the recent earthquake in central Italy via the Poker For Life charity. In addition, PokerStars is donating an extra €300 for every player, meaning that they've raised a very impressive €70,000 for the cause.

Among the field are such luminaries as Julian Thew, Peter Eastgate, Annette Obrestad, and Chad Brown, all of whom are doing their bit while they compete for a part of the €140,000 prize pool.