2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
€1,508,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,713,300
Entries
1,178
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Another Player Down

Eric Koskas moved all in from early position for 7,600 chips and was called by Soveh Deusen. Koskas tabled a hand that definitely needed to improve, {4-Hearts} {3-Hearts}. The bad news was that Deusen had hearts covered with {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts}. It was Deusen in the end on a board of {2-Spades} {Q-Clubs} {2-Hearts} {J-Spades} {A-Spades}. He scooped up the pot and sent Koskas out into the streets of San Remo to find something else to do.

Tags: Eric KoskasSoveh Deusen

Dropping Like Flies

Less than thirty minutes into the first level of play and already ten percent of the field has been vaporized. Nothing like a night of sleep to encourage the short stacks to get their chips in the middle.

Tom McEvoy was responsible for one recent elimination. His {A-?} {Q-?} out-raced an opponent's pocket sevens, hitting his queen twice on a board of {Q-Diamonds} {3-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} {6-Diamonds}. That elimination broke McEvoy's table, but not before pushing his chip count to 40,000.

One player thought he was eliminated but turned out to have his opponent barely covered after losing an all-in confrontation. Massimo Reynaud had to be called back to the table -- "Hey, you've got chips still!" one player said -- after he had his opponent out-chipped by 1,600 chips. He was already on the rail, gesticulating and speaking rapid-fire Italian to a railbird friend who could only shake his head. Clearly a bad-beat story.

Tags: Tom McEvoy

Jason Mercier Eliminated

No Mercier
No Mercier
Jason Mercier, coming back today with just 8,100, is busto already. It folded around to the small blind who pushed. Mercier woke up in the big blind with {A-?} {7-?} and called, but his opponent had {A-?} {8-?} and with no help from the board, we are down one reigning champion.

Tags: Jason Mercier

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Onwards and Upwards

Ljubomir Josipovic - Official Day 1b Chip Leader
Ljubomir Josipovic - Official Day 1b Chip Leader
After two action-packed Day 1s, we've made it to Day 2 of the 2009 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour San Remo event. Once the stacks were counted down at the end of Day 1b, it turned out that Ljubomir Josipovic just barely edged out Vincenzo Spinelli for the overnight chip lead. They both trailed Day 1a chip leader Dragan Galic.

Of course, that overnight chip lead doesn't mean much at this stage of the tournament. With 469 players left in thefield, we're still more than a day away from the money and several days away from the final table, where the big payouts await the players skilled enough and lucky enough to make it that far.

The action is scheduled to kick off in about forty minutes, at 2pm local time. The last two days, players were only allowed into the tournament room at 2pm. If the same holds true today, we'll likely wind up underway closer to 2:30pm.

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