Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Prize Pool
€1,391,200
Entries
296
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 296
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Following a flop of
, a player in the blinds checked, Minieri bet, and the player called, creating a pot of about 5,500. The turn brought the 
. Minieri's opponent checked, Minieri fired 3,700, then his opponent check-raised to 8,000 total.Minieri wasted little time grabbing a handful of yellow (5000) chips, a few pinks (1000), and a couple of purple ones (500) and tossing them forward. His opponent waved his hand -- a gesture of obvious frustration -- and pushed his cards to the dealer.
Minieri showed his cards --
-- as he dragged the pot. He's up above 70,000 now.
Seat 1: Vlad Zhuba
Seat 2: Nicolas Levi
Seat 6: Katja Thater
Seat 8: Cristiano Guerra
Seat 9: John Kabbaj
For those of you scoring at home, that's two Team PokerStars Pros (Zhuba and Thater), one bracelet winner (Kabbaj earlier this year), and two other online pros. Everyone's holding their own over there too with between 35-40,000.
Shaun Deeb - 63,000
John Kabbaj - 43,000
Vitaly Lunkin - 26,000
Lika Gerasimova - 28,000
Ivan Demidov - 38,000
The full list of players we're tracking can be found in the "Chip Counts" tab to the right.
Just as play kicked off today, Glo took a minute to run through yesterday's chip leaders and set the stage for today's action. Have a look at her Day 1b update below, and check back throughout the day for updated video content on PokerNews TV.
We're still trying to figure out what the story is, but as the players ticked down toward the end of level three, in walked Mr. Gus Hansen himself, slowly meandering around the tournament floor. It appears to be more than just a meet-and-greet for the Dane too as he has a green players badge draped from his neck. Registration is supposedly closed for the Main Event though, so it's possible he's here for the $1,000 side event.
Okay, maybe not. It's more probable that he's just scoping out the venue for the High Roller event on Friday.
Looks like our player currently has the book open to the section "Verteidigung gegen die Continuation Bet" (defending against the continuation bet). He just looked up and tapped the table to check from the blinds, but was told there had been a bet and so folded his hand. Probably looking to read a little more before calling those preflop raises.
He's obviously not going to sit and endure the situation. Just now came a hand in which two players limped, then a third raised to 650. The hijack and small blind both called the raise, then Minieri raised all in from the big blind for 7,925 total. With varying degrees of deliberation, all of the others folded.
Minieri is at about 11,500 now.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
