On the flip side, it appears that Demidov and Gerasmiova are going to try flight two tomorrow instead, though they're both mulling around the tournament room looking like they're ready to play.
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Prize Pool
€1,391,200
Total Entries
296
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 296
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On the flip side, it appears that Demidov and Gerasmiova are going to try flight two tomorrow instead, though they're both mulling around the tournament room looking like they're ready to play.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Politics aside, we'll be calling it Kyiv for the rest of the tournament.
. The preflop raiser continued with a bet of 1,000, and only Kravchenko called.The turn was the
-- a second ace and third heart. The raiser paused a beat, then checked. Kravchenko, his usual stern expression partially obscured by sunglasses, took thirty seconds or so then checked behind.The river was the
. The original raiser took another look at his cards, then checked. Kravchenko fairly quickly fired 2,500, and his opponent folded. As he did he showed one card -- the 
-- prompting a raise of the eyebrows and sneaky-looking grin from Kravchenko as he slid his cards face down to the dealer. The Russian has built his stack to 42,000.
Heads-up then, the flop came out
. Pagano reached for chips and led out into the pot with a bet of 1,200. His opponent shrugged his shoulders and made a shaky-handed raise to 3,000. Pagano capped his cards with a green chip and leaned back in his chair to consider his options. After about a minute, he uncapped those cards and used the free chip to slide them back to the dealer."Kings?" he asked. His opponent flashed the
, and Pagano knocked the table. "I folded tens," he said. "Tens."Pagano's activity cost him about 4,500 chips in the early going, but it is beginning to turn around for the Italian. Following that last hand, Luca has taken down a few small pots with river bets to bring his stack back close to 30,000.
Two more satellites today will likely also increase the numbers for tomorrow's field.
Just now we saw a hand in which three players, including Miami John Cernuto, limped, the small blind folded, and the big blind checked. The flop came
, and all four checked. The turn was the 
, prompting a bet of 300 from the big blind. Only Cernuto called.The river was the
. This time the player in the big blind bet 800, and Cernuto gave him a quick look before tossing out the chips to call. Cernuto's opponent showed 
for trip deuces, and Cernuto mucked. Cernuto slips just under 29,000 here in the early going.
, and Luca Pagano led out from the blinds with a bet of 400. His lone opponent made the call, and the turn card brought the . Pagano checked this time, and he would eventually call a bet of 700 from his foe. On the river 
, both players check-checked it down. The player in position showed first, tabling . Pagano couldn't beat it, slipping his cards quietly into the muck with a nod.
Alex Kravchenko
Luca Falaschi
Arnaud Mattern
Luca Pagano
Nikolay Evdakov
"Miami" John Cernuto
We'll play seven sixty-minute levels today.
