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

04-20-2009 18:42 UTC+3

Mikael Johansson Eliminated

The circumstances are hazy, but on our first circuit of the card room, Mikael Johansson, seated on the left of David Saab, had just 11,700 chips. On our second circuit, there was just a lonely-looking David Saab sitting to the right of a now-empty chair.

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04-20-2009 18:39 UTC+3

Jelassi Playing Really Good, We Have to Write About Him

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Ramzi Jelassi has doubled up to around 90,000. No bloggers were actually present to witness it, but Jelassi told me, "I'm playing really good, so you have to write about me."

Accordingly:

Jelassi raised to 3,000, and an Italian gentleman reraised to 11,000. Jelassi flat-called, and they saw a {Q-?}

-rag-rag flop. Jelassi sneakily checked, the Italian pushed, and Jelassi happily called all in with pocket aces. The Italian could only boast {A-?}

and no miracles appeared on the turn or river to ruin Jelassi's day. Jelassi is in a very good mood now, despite being seated at a fearsome table featuring EPT-winning French powerhouse Arnaud Mattern and his aviators, as well as legendary cheerful Irishman Liam Flood.

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Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

04-20-2009 18:29 UTC+3

What Are They Wearing?

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Wearing the same shirt as he wore on Day 1, thus enabling easy identification: Vladyslav "Vlad from Ukraine" Zhaba, on 19,500.

Changed shirt three times already today, causing brief panic among the bloggers as to whether our chip leader was correct: Croatian chip monster Dragan Galic, still on a frankly ridiculous 250,000.

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04-20-2009 18:26 UTC+3

Eldar and Losev Go to War

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We're starting to see some much bigger pots now. As the big stacks attempt to throw their weight around, the medium stacks fight to stay in the game. Nikolay Losev and David Eldar were two recent combatants who contributed 50,000 chips to a pot before the river on a board of {Q-Hearts}

. Eldar tanked for long enough that Losev called for a clock. After another twenty seconds, Eldar moved all in for about 18,000, prompting a snap-muck from Losev.

Both players now have similar stacks. Eldar is at 68,000, while Losev is down to 62,000.

Tags: David Eldar Nikolay Losev

04-20-2009 18:21 UTC+3

A Tougher Day for Josipovic

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Ljubomir Josipovic was fighting for the chip lead at the end of the day yesterday, but hasn't been able to accomplish much yet today. He did manage to river Tyler Cornell in a recent pot after raising to 4,000 preflop. Ljubomir check-called a bet of 4,800 from Cornell on a flop of all babies, {7-Clubs}

, then got a free card when both players checked the {10-Clubs}

turn. The {A-Spades}

hit the river and, of course, it also hit Josipovic. Both players checked it through, with Josipovic's {A-Clubs}

besting Cornell's {8-Spades}

at the last possible moment.

Josipovic is currently at 54,000 chips. Cornell moved down to 47,000.

Tags: Ljubomir Josipovic Tyler Cornell

04-20-2009 18:03 UTC+3

Also Going Up, Though Not As Up As Galic

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Arnaud Mattern, on 11,000 this morning, is now master of 75,000 in chips. "I had kings," he said. Turns out that he got his kings involved in a three-way hand involving a gent with {A-?}

and another gent with pocket queens. "And now I have chips," Mattern explained.

Also up, Mr. Marcin Horecki is now on 101,000, and Liam Flood is up to 36,000 from his starting stack of 13,000 this morning.

04-20-2009 17:56 UTC+3

Going Down

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Asa Smith, who started the day on around 75,000, is now down to a mere 20,000 and looking very dejected.

Also, Almira Skripchenko is now out.

04-20-2009 17:53 UTC+3

Going Up

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Day 1a chip leader Dragan Galic started the day as the only player over the 100,000 mark on exactly 107,800 -- and he has now become the first player to smash the 200,000 mark as well.

Not sure how he got the bulk of those, but just now he made a player fold pocket eights face up on a {J-?}

X

X board; Galic showed him {A-?}

and a long argument ensued concerning whether Galic had said "I hit" or "a jack" (Galic insisted he'd said "I hit"). Either way, Galic has now amassed a terrifying 248,000 stack. Fear the Dragan!

Tags: Dragan Galic

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100