Vilamoura Championship Main Event Day 2 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

11-19-2009 12:30 UTC

Bansi Bombs Out

Praz Bansi was just involved in a pot for his tournament life, and he would come out on the wrong end of the deck. Here's how it went down.

Bansi and Martin Wendt built a pot of about 10,000 before a flop of {4-Spades}

. Wendt led out with a bet of 5,500, and Bansi put in the call after a minute or two of consideration.

The turn brought the {7-Spades}

and a check from Wendt. Bansi took it as his cue to bet 10,700, but Wendt stuck in a small check-raise to 22,000. After another couple minutes, Bansi moved all in for just less than 50,000 total.

"Well if you got a set of nines, you're good," said Wendt, splashing in the call. Bansi did not have a set of nines. In fact, he would soon find out that his {K-Spades}

was drawing stone dead to Wendt's {7-Clubs}

. A meaningless {8-Hearts}

completed the board, and Bansi's day is done early.

Tags: Martin Wendt Praz Bansi

11-19-2009 12:27 UTC

It's Early

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People Who Look Like They Didn't Get Enough Sleep

- Johan "busto_soon" van Til
- Ivo Donev
- Praz Bansi
- Andy Black, although arguably the large beard he's sporting gives him an air of shabbiness which might erroneously be imagined sleepiness

People Who Have Yet To Make It Out Of Bed

- Jose Passos and Claudio Coelho, as evidenced by their empty seats and slowly dwindling stacks

11-19-2009 12:20 UTC

Early Action

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We pick up the action on the turn with the board showing {3-Clubs}

. The dealer had already pulled in a bet from local young gun Andre Santos. Alessandro Lusso had raised another 10,500 on top, and Santos was deep in the tank. He finally made the call with very shaky hands, and the river brought the {10-Hearts}

. Santos checked this time, and Lusso checked behind, tabling {J-Diamonds}

. Santos showed up {A-Hearts}

, and his kicker gives him a nice early pot.

He's right at 100,000 now, while Lusso is left with just 16,000.

11-19-2009 12:09 UTC

Let's Get it On

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The tall man in the suit has given the command, and the cards are in the air on Day 2.

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

11-19-2009 11:37 UTC

Welcome Back

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The Casino Vilamoura is buzzing with a crew of dealers and floor staff scurrying about the room in their black-and-whites, suiting their decks and delivering the chip bags to their tables. In just a few minutes' time, the 177 players who survived their Day 1 flights will burst through the double doors and take their seats.

The tentative plan is to play five 75-minute levels today, but the staff has the liberty of adjusting that as they see fit since we're not working with any television production constraints for this event. By the end of the day, we should be approaching the money bubble (possibly even pushing right into the money).

We've still got about a half hour left before things get rolling, so sit tight. We'll be back with the shuffle up and deal shortly.

11-19-2009 11:01 UTC

Day 2 Redraw

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Table 1
Seat 1: Praz Bansi - 53,300
Seat 2: Daniel Walter - 55,900
Seat 3: Rafael Morillo - 27,800
Seat 4: Martin Wendt - 71,400
Seat 5: Andre Dias - 37,100
Seat 6: Victor Mendicuti - 46,500
Seat 7: Matthew Nieberg - 66,600
Seat 8: Jude Ainsworth - 13,100
Seat 9: Dieter Albrecht - 87,200

Table 2
Seat 1: Rasmus Larsen - 43,200
Seat 2: Jan Smolka - 22,300
Seat 3: Günter Fortkord - 38,200
Seat 4: Ljubomir Josipovic - 192,900
Seat 5: Tome Moreira - 56,700
Seat 6: Dani Vargas - 26,300
Seat 7: David Maia Berneron - 18,600
Seat 8: Aleksey Tkachenko - 20,600
Seat 9: Jorge Carvalho - 33,100

Table 3
Seat 1: Robert Eng - 66,400
Seat 2: Ryan Franklin - 54,400
Seat 3: Alexia Portal - 69,400
Seat 4: Andy Black - 74,400
Seat 5: Matthias Kurtz - 23,800
Seat 7: Guillaume Da Silva - 37,400
Seat 8: Christian Fredrik Bonde - 45,300
Seat 9: Nicolo Calia - 28,000

Table 4
Seat 1: Ross Boatman - 56,200
Seat 2: Yaman Nakaldi - 16,500
Seat 3: Garcia Cayetano - 75,700
Seat 4: Nuno Coelho - 49,100
Seat 5: JP Kelly - 93,700
Seat 6: Børge Dypvik - 31,900
Seat 7: Joao Ferreira - 66,000
Seat 8: Jan Veit - 47,700
Seat 9: Simon Nowab - 63,300

Table 5
Seat 1: Rico Schultz - 59,800
Seat 2: Andrea Sapere - 26,800
Seat 3: Shaun Deeb - 61,200
Seat 4: Gino Gabriel - 58,100
Seat 5: Jose Passos - 58,500
Seat 6: Diogo Veiga - 26,700
Seat 7: Reuben Peters - 1,600
Seat 8: Goncalo Santos - 84,400
Seat 9: Jeff Sarwer - 143,400

Table 6
Seat 1: Pedro Tomas - 87,900
Seat 2: Stuart Rutter - 69,000
Seat 3: Joao Silva - 35,600
Seat 4: Roberto Machado - 67,700
Seat 5: Allan Baekke - 66,200
Seat 6: Luis Miranda Rodrigues - 20,000
Seat 7: Aurelien Guiglini - 58,300
Seat 8: Patrick O'Connor - 43,900
Seat 9: Dimitri De Smit - 20,400

Table 7
Seat 1: Santiago Terrazas - 62,500
Seat 2: Salim Ghozali - 43,800
Seat 3: Nicolas Duffort - 36,400
Seat 4: Henrique Pinho - 82,000
Seat 5: Jari Hautala - 26,400
Seat 6: Eric Van Der Burg - 65,300
Seat 7: Sami Kelopuro - 63,900
Seat 8: Chad Brown - 24,500
Seat 9: Antonio Matias - 66,300

Table 8
Seat 1: Berney Frankfort - 55,700
Seat 2: Jasper Wetemans - 31,900
Seat 3: Rob Yong - 123,300
Seat 4: Antony Lellouche - 71,000
Seat 5: Martin Kabrhel - 51,500
Seat 6: Juan Manuel Pastor - 56,600
Seat 7: Sergey Pomerantsev - 43,100
Seat 8: Thomas Boekhoff - 14,700
Seat 9: Luis Rodriguez - 24,400

Table 11
Seat 1: Ricardo Martinez - 12,700
Seat 2: Manuel Cadilhe - 44,300
Seat 3: Alexander Roumeliotis - 73,800
Seat 4: Per Anton Bertilsson - 99,000
Seat 5: Jan Heitmann - 24,100
Seat 6: Vyacheslav Zhukov - 60,600
Seat 7: Sergio Coutinho - 80,600
Seat 8: Hugo Felix - 57,900
Seat 9: David Ayuga Medina - 28,900

Table 12
Seat 1: Luca Pagano - 60,400
Seat 2: Michel Dattani - 43,900
Seat 4: Rumen Nanev - 104,600
Seat 5: Olaf Schröder - 18,300
Seat 6: Rolf Slotboom - 25,700
Seat 7: Vishal Pundjabi - 124,600
Seat 8: André Moreira - 27,500
Seat 9: Alexey Yuzikov - 96,500

Table 13
Seat 1: Joachim Buch - 24,500
Seat 2: Sergey Lebedev - 59,600
Seat 3: Fernando Brito - 24,300
Seat 4: Alexander Kravchenko - 29,000
Seat 5: Claudio Coelho - 55,600
Seat 6: Roger Suter - 35,700
Seat 7: Manuel Jimenez Cecilia - 60,100
Seat 8: Dominykas Karmazinas - 183,000
Seat 9: Richard Grace - 39,500

Table 14
Seat 1: Marlene Cerqueira - 34,500
Seat 2: Andrei Vlasenko - 74,400
Seat 3: Jean Montury - 46,400
Seat 4: Konstantin Puchkov - 21,800
Seat 5: Loic Sa - 17,400
Seat 6: Johannes Van Til - 98,000
Seat 7: Rogerio Sousa - 84,300
Seat 8: David Gomez Morante - 30,300
Seat 9: Marc Naalden - 47,400

Table 15
Seat 1: Pierre Neuville - 141,100
Seat 2: Jason Mercier - 53,900
Seat 3: Katja Thater - 14,500
Seat 4: Johannes Strassmann - 64,400
Seat 5: Robert Willis - 27,500
Seat 6: Christophe Benzimra - 90,600
Seat 7: Craig Hopkins - 30,800
Seat 8: Nuno Goncalves - 60,900
Seat 9: Marco Paulo Orlandi - 94,400

Table 16
Seat 1: Matt Johns - 61,500
Seat 2: Mohamed Razab - 97,100
Seat 3: Antoanell Judet - 24,000
Seat 4: Javier Garcia - 42,300
Seat 5: Joep Van Den Bijgaart - 39,700
Seat 6: Davidi Kitai - 67,100
Seat 7: Geoffrey Doco - 20,300
Seat 8: Alexander Dovzhenko - 49,800
Seat 9: Jamel Maistriaux - 75,800

Table 19
Seat 1: Rino Mathis - 56,400
Seat 2: Jurien Van Galen - 38,500
Seat 3: Eduardo Lopez - 106,100
Seat 4: Ugur Acikcesme - 24,400
Seat 5: Javed Abrahams - 26,700
Seat 6: Steven Van Zadelhoff - 57,800
Seat 7: Nicolas Levi - 87,300
Seat 8: Jan Skampa - 73,000
Seat 9: Paulino Subtil - 64,300

Table 20
Seat 1: Todd Nagata - 32,100
Seat 2: Flavio Pinhota - 18,600
Seat 3: Tobias Reinkemeier - 19,500
Seat 4: Miguel Menendez - 43,600
Seat 5: Amir Pirbazari - 122,800
Seat 6: Joao Barbosa - 59,700
Seat 7: Jesus Sanchez - 80,800
Seat 8: Barny Boatman - 34,000
Seat 9: Stefan Mattsson - 125,100

Table 21
Seat 1: Giuseppe Sarlo - 64,000
Seat 2: Ricardo Sousa - 35,200
Seat 3: Tobias Benjamin Schrader - 23,400
Seat 4: Antoon Pieter Jozef Kleijnen - 81,300
Seat 5: Olaf De Zeeuw - 52,100
Seat 6: Daniel Drescher - 146,800
Seat 7: James Collopy - 122,400
Seat 8: Ivo Donev - 36,000
Seat 9: Isabel Carvalho - 27,500

Table 22
Seat 1: Luc Greenwood - 37,100
Seat 2: David Rawnsley - 26,900
Seat 3: Alessandro Lusso - 35,700
Seat 5: Pontus Kers - 29,400
Seat 6: Stephan Gerin - 44,400
Seat 7: Olga Kramarruko - 18,400
Seat 8: Maria Maceiras - 47,000
Seat 9: Andre Santos - 81,300

Table 23
Seat 1: Daniel Ferreira - 64,900
Seat 2: Marco Mattes - 12,300
Seat 3: Thomas Bichon - 22,300
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis - 85,500
Seat 5: Julian Thew - 83,500
Seat 6: Michiel De Graaf - 22,900
Seat 7: Alexandre Brail - 39,300
Seat 8: Jason Helder - 22,100
Seat 9: John Eames - 110,200

Table 24
Seat 1: Per Hendrik Kask - 19,100
Seat 2: Marco Della Tommasina - 109,600
Seat 3: Dominik Nitsche - 23,800
Seat 4: Constantin Chivu - 16,100
Seat 5: Diogo Borges - 56,900
Seat 6: Illia Kainov - 62,800
Seat 7: Ismail Erkenov - 26,700
Seat 8: Ruben Visser - 172,400
Seat 9: António Martins - ?