Ms. Gloria Balding caught up with Peter Eastgate before he busted. Enjoy.
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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The dealer ran out the board:
, with Pagano and Nieberg checking it down the whole way. After the last two checks, Nieberg announced, "Ace high." Rousso then tabled 
for her own ace high, but it was no good either. Pagano showed up 
, and his queens up earned him the pot and the knockout.Rousso would ask and find out that her ace-jack was ahead of Nieberg's ace, but she couldn't overcome Pagano's pair. She stood behind her chair for just a moment to take one last look before heading off toward the exit. "God, I had so many outs too," she said, trailing off. "An ace, a jack, a king, a ten..."
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Simon Nowab - 30,000
Juan Maceiras - 6,000
Stuart Rutter - 40,000
John Eames - 29,500
Carter Phillips - 38,000
Johan van Til - 55,000
John O'Shea - spotted eating a sandwich at the rail, presumed bust
Andy Black - 40,000
Jonathan Aguiar - 28,000
Sami Kelopuro - 56,000
Olaf de Zeeuw - 6,000
Alexia Portal - 25,000
Julian Thew - 35,000
Jan Heitmann - not on 75,000 or busto as he promised, but rather back to his 30,000 starting stack
Richard Ashby - back from his nap, and on 26,500
Dominik Nitsche - 31,500
Henrique Pinho - 73,000
Juan Manuel Pastor - 50,000
Matthew Nieberg - 75,000
In related news, Team PokerStars Pro Spain Juan Maceiras has had a strikingly similar last few minutes. He too was down to just a few thousand, and he too has just been eliminated.
flop and it checked around to the gentleman on the button, who bet 2,000. Ross Boatman in the small blind made the call, looking oddly reluctant; everyone else folded and they went heads up to the turn.Said turn came down the
and Boatman checked. This time his opponent bet 4,000, and after a short while, Boatman folded, again looking rather reluctant. Curious.Boatman is floating on 26,500.
, Luca Pagano led out into a three-way pot with a near-pot-sized bet of 1,500. The monkey in the middle folded, but his fellow-Italian, Marco Della Tommasina, made the quick call.The turn brought the
and a check from both players, and the 
completed the board. Pagano fired out 3,100, and Della Tommasina quickly called again. Pagano instantly mucked his cards, and the pot goes to his countryman.Pagano is back down around 40,000 after that little slip.
All three players checked the
flop and they saw a turn. Kelopuro bet 2,300 and both his opponents folded.Kelopuro seems to have been having rather a good time of late - he's up to 90,000.
Most recently he seems to have raised under the gun and got one caller across the table to see a
flop. Bansi bet out 2,050; his opponent called, and they saw an 
turn which they both checked. Bansi checked the 
river, and proceeded to lay it down to a 4,600 bet from Mr. Across The Table.
