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

04-20-2009 17:32 UTC+3

Here We Go Again

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Cards are back in the air. This is Level 11 now, the third of six levels today.

04-20-2009 17:22 UTC+3

Let's Hear It for the Lay-Deez

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Alexia Portal: 22,000
Maxi Mueller: 37,000
Almira Skripchenko: 19,500

04-20-2009 17:21 UTC+3

Steve Jelinek: 26,000
Constant Rijkenburg: 57,000 (wearing a t-shirt proclaiming "Why Can't I Be Rich Instead Of Good-Looking?")
Benjamin Kang: 19,100
Lex Veldhuis: 63,000
Tom McEvoy: 45,300
Juan Maceiras: 58,000
Marcel Luske: 30,000
Jani Vilmunen: 12,000
Ramzi Jelassi: 50,000
Arnaud Mattern: 36,000, (up from just 11,000 this morning)
Thomas Brolin: 16,700
Tyler Cornell: 52,000
Andrew Feldman: 54,000
Thierry van den Berg: 29,000
Alex Kravchenko: 30,000

04-20-2009 17:16 UTC+3

Watch EPTlive San Remo Coverage on PokerStars.tv

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EPTlive San Remo coverage starts April 22, 14:00 CET (08:00 ET)

04-20-2009 17:16 UTC+3

Curious Hand - Danielsson Has the Upper Hand

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Jonas Danielsson raised in the cutoff, but on the button James Akenhead reraised to 7,600. It folded back around to Danielsson, who made it 13,600; after a moment's thought, Akenhead called.

They saw a {4-Diamonds}

flop, and Danielsson bet out a suspiciously small 5,500. Without any hesitation, Akenhead folded, leaving himself with 33,000 in chips. Danielsson, meanwhile, is up to over 50,000.

Tags: James Akenhead Jonas Danielsson

04-20-2009 17:16 UTC+3

Break Time!

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We've reached the first break of the day, just as the sun has finally broken through three days of clouds.

04-20-2009 17:14 UTC+3

Chip Counts

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Movin' on up -- Sami Kelopuro and Marcin Horecki. Kelopuro has cracked six figures with 103,000. Horecki is right behind him with 94,000 after taking out a player with pocket kings. That player had reraised all in with pocket fours preflop, then slammed a coffee mug to the floor and kicked over a service table on his way out of the tournament. "We must be in Italy," a Scandi player at the table joked.

Sliding down a bit -- Kent Hunter, at 51,000.

Holding steady -- Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick, at 31,000.

Tags: Kent Hunter Marcin Horecki Sami Kelopuro Stephen Chidwick

04-20-2009 17:10 UTC+3

Hey Look! It's Marco Traniello!

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Ok. We're in a country full of Italians. And we're not Italian. Not a one of us. So you can forgive us if, in a country full of Italians, we miss an Italian or two. It's like that old joke -- they all look the same to us. That's not really true, of course, but we have no other excuse for why we didn't notice Marco Traniello in the field yesterday.

We did notice him today, rocking an incredibly short stack. He got that stack of about 6,000 chips in the middle from under the gun and was called by the cutoff player. The cutoff showed down {9-Diamonds}

and was shocked -- as was everyone else watching the hand -- to see Traniello turn over {A-Hearts}

. It was all over by the turn of a board that came down {A-Diamonds}

. Traniello doubled to 14,000 and, more importantly, is back on our radar screen.

Tags: Marco Traniello

04-20-2009 17:06 UTC+3

Martin Clawing Back

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Martin - doesn't like the look of that tracksuit

Michael Martin came back today with just 8,700 and has built his stack up to 19,000 since then. No big double ups, though -- "I moved all in loads of times on my first table, but never got called."

He's got a pretty tough table now, though. He's sandwiched between John O'Shea and Irish Open final tabler, and tracksuit enthusiast, Jani Vilmunen.

Tags: Michael Martin

04-20-2009 16:50 UTC+3

No Singing, Just a Double-Up for Luske

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Speaking of players staring at the ceiling, David Eldar joined those ranks after an entertaining hand with Marcel Luske. Eldar raised preflop to 2,000 and was called, in position, by Luske. Eldar followed up with a flop bet of 2,000 that Luske quickly called, the board showing {A-Clubs}

. Both players checked the {10-Clubs}

turn. On the river {q-Spades}

, Eldar tanked for more than a minute before betting 4,700. Luske was much quicker to raise all in for 11,300 total.

Eldar's face went through a series of expressions that could only be described as comical. Puzzlement, frustration and outright bewilderment rippled across his face in rapid succession. His curiosity finally got the better of him; he shipped in a call and mucked upon being shown Luske's spade flush, {7-Spades}