2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 1b
Correction
Despite having a WSOP bracelet, several major final table appearances and a plethora of other cashes under his belt, not to mention a frankly awesome photo on his Hendon Mob page, Bansi has long been afflicted by some kind of EPT curse. He has played, well, most of them, yet never once cashed. The closest he's ever come was a cruel bubble spot in the London EPT High Roller event last year. Perhaps this will be the tournament to break the curse.
Slick Bluff Doesn't Work For Perrault
Perrault held out his as if asking whether or not he should bother tabling his cards. He wouldn't need to. Pundjabi sighed heavily and turned over the winning to earn himself the big pot.
Perrault has slipped all the way down to just 3,000 paltry chips.
Huckleberry Hounded
Home-Grown Talent
Portugal - 63 (20%)
Germany - 32 (10%)
France - 30 (9%)
Spain - 28 (9%)
Netherlands - 24 (7%)
UK - 19 (6%)
USA - 18 (6%)
Italy - 16 (5%)
Russia - 12 (4%)
Sweden - 12 (4%)
Canada - 8 (2%)
Finland - 8 (2%)
Switzerland - 8 (2%)
Denmark - 7 (2%)
Ireland - 6 (2%)
Belgium - 4 (1%)
Norway - 4 (1%)
Romania - 4 (1%)
Ukraine - 4 (1%)
Austria - 3 (1%)
Czech Republic - 2 (1%)
Poland - 2 (1%)
Algeria - 1
Bulgaria - 1
Croatia - 1
French Guiana - 1
Lithuania - 1
Monaco - 1
Slovenia - 1
Turkey - 1
Minieri Succumbs
It'll Be Aguiaright on the Night. Or Not
Marco della Tommasina opened under the gun for 950 and El Sayed seems to have just shoved for around 12,000. Aguiar made a surprise call from the small blind, after some brief consideration della Tommasina gave it up, and they were on their backs, racing.
El Sayed:
Aguiar: and a shrug
Board:
Denied Perrault
And thanks to the team of French bloggers next to us, we've just gotten a few more details. The player on the button raised to 1,000, and the small blind re-raised to 2,100. Perrault looked down at 3d 3h and moved all in. The button folded, but the small blind quickly called with . An ace hit the flop, and the board of A-7-5-K-6 is the last one Pascal Perrault will see today.
Eastgate Goes West
Incidentally, after spending most of the day with his shirt fraudulently claiming him as a Team Pokerstars Pro: USA, Eastgate eventually gave up trying to find a Team Pokerstars Pro: Nordics badge, and just cut off the USA bit. In your face, America.