Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 2
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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Forced to go all in from the small blind, Thater found herself heads up with
against an opponent's 
. The first four community cards came 
, and Thater started to stand up. But the river was the 
and she retook her seat.On the next hand, a player in early position raised to 2,300, then Luca Falaschi reraised to 12,000 from the hijack seat. Thater looked at her cards, shrugged, and pushed her tiny stack all in. The blinds and original raiser folded, Falaschi showed
, and Thater 
.The flop came
, eliciting a few "oohs" from the table. The turn was the , and Thater looked comfortable remaining in her seat. But the river brought the 
, stealing the hand away and eliminating the German. Falaschi now has 46,000.
, and there were 21,300 chips already in the middle of the table.In front of Yulius Sepman were laid all 17,300 of his chips putting himself all in pending the decision of his lone opponent, Ivan Demidov. It would take several minutes for the Team PokerStars Pro to mull over his decision as he once or twice flashed that familiar eye roll of his. "It's like... sometimes he has eight-nine here... or king-ten..." he trailed off, talking to nobody in particular. Finally, he dropped the calling chips into the pot with a regretful look on his face.
At least he knew he was wrong. Sepman tabled
, and Demidov turned over 
with a shake of the head. The turn was a blank 
, and the 
that filled out the board was a useless card as well. Sepman's overpair holds, doubling him up close to 60,000 while that slip-up drops Demidov back down to 17,000.
and both players checked. The turn brought the 
and a bet of 3,000 from Ziv. Jaoui counted out his stack -- about 30,000 -- then made the call.The river brought the
. Ziv quickly fired 6,000, then settled behind his large sunglasses. Jaoui fretted for a couple of minutes before finally making the call. Ziv continued to sit motionless until Jaoui repeated he had called, thus inviting Ziv to show his hand. The Ukrainian sheepishly turned over 
. Jaoui showed 
and claimed the pot.Ziv is still quite healthy, though, with a stack of 85,000. Jaoui now sits with 45,000.
It took just about a half hour for Kremser to realize that five levels would be enough as players are following each other out the exit door at a brisk pace. That means we'll finish up after the 1,000/2,000 level somewhere around 7pm.
Just now the Russian found himself in a hand versus his fellow countryman, Alekseu Tsessarsky. With the board showing
, Tsessarsky announced he was all in, and Lunkin called with his remaining short stack. Tsessarsky showed for top pair, while Lunkin showed 
for jacks and a straight draw.The river was the
, and Lunkin was eliminated. He came around to shake hands with Tsessarsky and wish him well. We've quickly lost 30 players here in the first level of play today. There are 173 remaining.
. Big blind Albert Iverson checked, and Maxim Lykov made a bet of 3,300 from the cutoff seat. On the button, Nikolay Evdakov put in the call while Iverson quickly ducked out of the way.Heads up now, the turn card came the
to pair the board. Lykov passed this time, and he would eventually call a bet of 6,000 from Evdakov. The last card off was the , and Lykov checked again. Evdakov slid another 7,000 chips into the pot, and his opponent would ponder carefully before making the call. Evdakov tabled , and his king-high flush was the winner.That pot lifts the Russian up to 69,000.
Andrew Feldman comes into Day 2 with a top-third chip stack, sitting just shy of 100,000. As play concluded last night, he took a moment with Gloria for a little thing we like to call, "Calling the Clock". Check it:
. "Ugh, that's like my first hand," lamented Guerra, showing up his .The board would run out blanks:
, spelling the end of the day for the Italian pro.
