Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Entries
322
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 322
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"Housekeeping just woke me up 15 minutes ago," he said with a smirk. "The wake-up call service at the hotel is not the best. Plus I played online poker all night." Indeed he did; Phillips took fifth place in the $100+r in the wee hours of the Portuguese morning.
With the aforementioned Christophe Benzimra also paying today, two of the last three EPT champions are in the house.
Seat 2: Julien Brecard
Seat 3: Peter Eastgate
Seat 5: Dario Minieri
Seat 6: Vanessa Rousso
That's three Team PokerStars Pros and one PokerStars Sponsored Player, if you're scoring at home. Eastgate, it should noted, is looking unusually chipper this morning. Gloria Balding just noticed: "Oh my god, he's smiling!... Look, he's still smiling!" With Joe Cada having taken over Eastgate's role as WSOP Champion last week, it seems possible that Eastgate is a little more relaxed now that the heavy weight now rests on someone else's shoulders.
"He's talkative too! Look at him, he's chatting it up over there!"
It should also be noted that Eastgate walked in wearing a Team PokerStars Pro United States patch. And that the PokerStars staff is scurrying around like lemmings trying to find a Nordics patch to replace it with.
They saw a
flop and Kelopuro checked; Young Qualifier Gentleman confidently bet 6,000. Back to Kelopuro, who promptly put his whole stack in the middle. With an enormous sigh, Young Qualifier Gent sat back in his chair and removed his aviators. There followed a couple of minutes' heartfelt sighing before he folded 
face up, hypothesizing 
in Kelopuro's hand. Kelopuro mucked his hand though, and is up to 43,500.
- Nicolas Levi, his trademark trilby making a welcome return to the EPT circuit after a period of disappointing Levi hatlessness
- King of the Nosebleed Stakes, his majesty Richard "Chufty" Ashby, seated directly to the left of fellow Brit and former EPT Baden champ Julian Thew
"I was just all in during the first level. Again. On a bluff. It's like the fifth tournament in a row I've been all in on a bluff in the first level.
Black recounted the hand. With a raise in front of him, Black called with
. A third player re-raised, and both Black and the original raiser called.The flop came
(X) rainbow, and the re-raiser bet 2,500. Both opponents called, and the turn brought a blank. When the aggressor led out with another bet of 7,000, Black moved all in for about 23,000 total. After some deliberation, his opponent surrendered, and Black could exhale.That's all we had time to hear from him. Just after lighting up his cigarette, Black glanced back into the tournament room. "Oh it's my big blind!" he yelled, chucking his smoke and sprinting back to his nearby table just as the dealer dealt his second card.
board. Johannes Strassmann called, but then mucked when Levi turned over 
for two pair to put him up to 37,500. Strassmann's not doing too badly, though - he's still on 38,500.
Mr. Mid Position bet out on the
flop and Seed called, and then he bet out again on the harmless-looking 
turn. This time, though, Seed passed, leaving himself with 24,000 or so. He didn't look terribly bothered.
flop. A third player had in some way been involved, but when we arrived at the table the action was on a middle-aged gentleman a couple seats to Black's right, who was down to 10 seconds on the clock. Eventually he folded, turning over 
in the process. Black turned over 
and looked like he was waiting for a turn and river. "Oh, you folded," he said eventually. "I thought you said call. I was just going to show you one."Black up to 47,000.
