2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
78
Prize
€404,793
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Entries
322
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Black-Listed

If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around...

After a double up on the first hand, we took our eyes off of Andy Black for just a few seconds. When we turned our heads back around, he was nowhere to be seen. His chips are missing, and his beard is nowhere in sight either. Asking around the room, it seems that nobody saw the hand that sealed his fate. It was an unusually covert exit for Mr. Black.

Tags: Andy Black

How Does He Miss?

Garcia Cayetano limped into the pot under the gun, and Olaf de Zeeuw followed suit in middle position. Both blinds came along as well, and it was four-handed to the flop.

It brought {3-Clubs} {6-Spades} {4-Spades}. After a few bets and raises, Cayetano ended up all in for 65,600 against de Zeeuw. The at-risk player was ahead with {9-Diamonds} {9-Clubs}, but he would need to fade the myriad outs of de Zeeuw's {A-Spades} {5-Spades}.

The turn blanked off for him, the {J-Diamonds}, and the {3-Hearts} that hit the river did nothing to improve de Zeeuw either. With his nines holding, Cayetano has picked up a big double to about 145,000. De Zeeuw has slipped down to 51,000.

Tags: Garcia CayetanoOlaf de Zeeuw

Three Way All In Action

Happiest Man In The Room right now is very definitely Javier Garcia - he's just tripled up to almost 200,000.

Garcia was holding pocket queens with Ryan Franklin also all in with pocket kings; Daniel Drescher covered them both with pocket nines. A queen on the flop, and Franklin is down to 40,000 while former big stack Drescher has just 13,000 to his name.

Sanchez Caught At It

Sergey Lebedev shoved from the big blind to a button raise from Jesus Sanchez and Sanchez called.

Lebedev: {2-Clubs} {2-Diamonds}
Sanchez: a rather shameful but still coinflipping {4-Spades} {10-Spades}

Board: {Q-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} {6-Spades} {8-Hearts}

Lebedev duly doubled up.

Slotboom Sent Off

A player in middle position opened the pot with a small raise to 7,000, and Rolf Slotboom made the call from the cutoff seat. When action came around to the big blind, Jan Heitmann announced a re-raise to 25,000 straight. That was enough to fold the initial raiser, but Slotboom wasn't going anywhere. In his methodical fashion, "Robocop" counted out a re-raise and made it 69,000 total. Heitmann asked how much Slotboom had behind (66,200), and he moved all in over the top.

Slotboom was hating life. He seemed to know that he was beaten, but he had more than half of his chips in the pot already. He reluctantly called as he asked the dealer to give him another jack.

Showdown
Slotboom: {J-Spades} {J-Diamonds}
Heitmann: {A-Spades} {A-Clubs}

The dealer would fail to oblige Slotboom as he ran out a board of {K-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {2-Spades} {7-Hearts} {4-Hearts}. Unable to catch up to the pocket aces, Slotboom shook hands with his table and headed out. Heitmann, on the other hand, is up dangerously close to 300,000.

Tags: Jan HeitmannRolf Slotboom

Reinkemeier Pwns Terrazas

Tobias Reinkemeier raised to 7,500 under the gun, only for Santiago Terrazas on the button to make it 12,700. Call.

Flop: {8-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {10-Clubs}

Reinkemeier checked and Terrazas bet 19,000. Dwell, and call.

Turn: {6-Diamonds}

Check, check, leading us necessarily to the...

River: {7-Spades}

Reinkemeier now bet out 52,300. After some time squinting at the board, Terrazas passed and is left with 150,000.

"You thought about pushing all in?" asked Reinkemeier. Terrazas responded with a vague "no hablo ingles" sort of shrug.