2010 EPT Deauville

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2010 EPT Deauville

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
€847,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,686,400
Entries
768
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
30,000

The Weakest Hollink

Robbed
Robbed
It's been a pretty slow day for Rob Hollink by the looks of it. Most recently we witnessed him raising to 1,025 in the cutoff, only to be confronted by an all-in reraise from Andrei One in the big blind, totalling less than 6,000. Hollink swallowed many long seconds of playing time thinking about it, before folding. He remains on around his 30,000 starting stack.

Tags: Rob Hollink

Storm Brueling

Patrick Bruel raised to 900 under the gun, and Praz Bansi called. Next to act, Alberto Valenti made it 2,225, leaving himself 10,200 behind. It folded back to Bruel, who four-bet to 7,900. Bansi was happy to duck out of the way. Valenti, on the other hand, didn't look thrilled with the spot, but he dutifully shoved the rest of his chips into the middle. Bruel called and quickly tabled his hand while the dealer had to prod Valenti several times before he showed.

Bruel: {A-Hearts} {K-Spades}
Valenti: {J-Hearts} {J-Spades}

"Ok, that's not bad," said Bruel.

The {Q-Spades} {3-Clubs} {2-Clubs} flop was safe for Valenti, as was the {4-Hearts} on the turn. But the {K-Hearts} on the river earned a loud curse from the Italian. He stared at the board angrily for a moment, then collected himself enough to shake Patrick's hand on the way out. Bruel is now up to 74,000 in chips.

Tags: Alberto ValentiPatrick Bruel

Dario Extends His Lead

Just a small one, but they all count.

With around 4,500 in the pot by the river of the {J-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {6-Clubs} board, Dario Minieri bet out 2,800. His opponent called, but Minieri's reputation must have preceded him as Mr. Opponent was clearly not expecting Minieri actually ot have anything. Minieri turned over {J-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} for two pair, Mr. Opponent mucked, and there is still no-one near Minieri in terms of stack size at this time.

Tags: Dario Minieri

Chippies

Here are a smattering of chip updates from around the room. The full list of players we're tracking is right here.

Joe Beevers - 39,000
Julien Brecard - 44,000
Vicky Coren - 14,000
Alexander Kravchenko - 26,000
Antony Lellouche - 25,000
Ramzi Jelassi - 53,000
ElkY - 56,000
Jon Aguiar - 59,000
Juha Helppi - 49,000
Jean-Robert Bellande - 34,000
Fabrice Soulier - 11,000

Barbosa Gets Involved With Beautiful Lady

We caught up with a rather unhappy-looking Joao Barbosa, heads up with the very beautiful Lucille Cailly on a {2-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} flop. You'd think he'd be pleased.

Nevertheless, Cailly checked, before calling an 800 bet from Barbosa. Both players checked the {8-Hearts} turn, and Cailly checked the {J-Hearts} river too. Barbosa now bet 2,100 and after a moment's thought Cailly called - but Barbosa turned over {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} which she could not beat, and Barbosa picked up some much-needed chips.

He's on 17,500 after that.

Tags: Joao Barbosa

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Moving In Together

While most of the players are in the giant ballroom here at the Casino Barrière de Deauville, the day began with about 10 tables in the actual poker room. Now there are only four left, and with the field shrinking quickly as dinner break approaches, soon everyone will be in the ballroom. Until then, one of the tables in the poker room just keeps getting scarier. Seats 1, 2, and 3 have been occupied by Fabrice Soulier, Melanie Weisner, and Luca Pagano all day. Now Jeff Sarwar has moved into seat 4, and Catherine Hong is in seat 5. Table change, anyone?

Martinez Doubles Through Minieri

Dario Minieri and Barbara Martinez saw a {9-?} {7-?} {4-?} flop with two hearts on it, and Martinez bet out 6,000. Minieri promptly raised to 35,000, covering Ms. Martinez. She thought about it for a long, long time - and eventually called all in.

Martinez: {A-?} {9-?} for top pair
Minieri: {K-?} {5-?} for absolutely nothing

The turn and river blanked, and Martinez doubled to a very respectable 50,000. Minieri, meanwhile, drops down from the top spot - on 98,000, he's now been pipped by fellow countryman and Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano.

Tags: Barbara MartinezDario Minieri

Boat Rescues Coren

Vicky Coren was down around 4,000 chips when she moved all in from the button. No callers, and she tabled {A-?} {Q-?} as she scooped in the blinds and antes, building her stack to 5,625.

The next hand, one player opened to 1350, and Oliverio da Silva called. Coren shipped it in, and the original raiser called. "I have absolutely no chance of winning this hand," said Ms. Coren. "Even if he has two three, I'm not winning this hand."

Hearing that, the da Silva decided to call as well. Thinking the action was complete, he started to table his hand, but Vicky stopped him before he could show the other player with a live hand.

Flop: {A-Spades} {9-Spades} {8-Spades} Both active players checked.

Turn: {A-Hearts}

The first man checked to da Silva, then quickly mucked when da Silva moved all in. Finally Oliverio got to table his hand, and with {5-Spades} {4-Spades}, he was sure he had the winner. But Coren turned up {9-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} for a full house, meaning da Silva was drawing dead.

Another player at the table congratulated Coren on her triple up. "Back in business now," he said. "Am I?" she asked with a shrug and got back to stacking her chips.

Tags: Oliverio da SilvaVicky Coren

Table 39 Tidbits

Jeff Sarwer
Jeff Sarwer
On paper, Table 39 is the most exciting ticket in town. That's what we'll call Table Pagano over in the secondary ballroom. However, the show isn't exactly living up to the billing so far. Action is at a premium over there, and table chatter is even more difficult to come by. We stood on the rail and watched three orbits go by. Of those hands, two were actually marginally interesting. Emphasis on marginally:

Under the gun, Jeff Sarwer opened the pot to 1,025. He found calling action from a player in middle position, as well as Luca Pagano in the big blind. The flop came out {8-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {2-Clubs}, and Pagano checked. Sarwer continued out with a bet of 2,550, and that was good enough to put him heads up with Pagano as he was the only caller. Fourth street brought the {8-Clubs}, and Pagano took pause. He decided to take the betting lead with 4,400 chips, and Sarwer tanked for ages before folding.

A few hands later, Sarwer raised from the cutoff, and Catherine Hong called on the button. The two saw a flop of {7-Spades} {9-Clubs} {3-Diamonds}, and Sarwer fired 1,625. Hong quickly called, and they both checked the turn {A-Diamonds}. On the river, the {9-Diamonds} drew another check from Sarwer, and Hong decided a bet of 2,200 was in order. Sarwer shrugged and called and gestured to see his opponent's hand. Hong showed up {5-Hearts} {7-Hearts}. "Oh, you have a seven?" Sawer half-asked. He nodded, double-checked his hole cards, and slipped them into the muck.

Sarwer was sitting with about 68,000 when we decided it was time to stare at another table for a while.

Tags: Catherine HongJeff SarwerLuca Pagano

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