2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
€1,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€6,014,000
Entries
1,240
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 1,240
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We at PokerNews would like to commend the EPT organizers on their new choice of level-up music - the intro from Eye of the Tiger.

Yes, say we. Yes.

Italy Expects

A lot of the home hopes will rest on Dario Minieri and Luca Pagano as the stalwarts of Italian Poker. The former has managed a good start flopping a house with {9-?} {9-?} on a {10-?} {9-?} {10-?} {8-?} {7-?} and getting paid on the river.

Enter the Italians

Misters Pagano (Luca) and Minieri (Dario) have just both made their late entrances to the tournament, and about a minute apart from each other. Both are decked out in bright blue jumpers, and they're both sitting in Seat 3 at adjacent tables in the far corner of the room.

Thorsson Gets More-sson

Kristoffer Thorsson is off to a pretty decent start after seeing a {J-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} flop. His opponent in the hijack checked, and Thorsson bet 1,400 from the button. A call, and a turn.

The turn was the {9-Diamonds} and Mr. Hijack checked again. Thorsson now bet 3,000. "How much?" asked his opponent inexplicably. He called.

The river came down the {A-Spades} and once again Mr. Hijack checked. Thorsson now bet 6,500, and this time his opponent passed.

Thorsson is up to a thoroughly respectable 35,000.

Tags: Kristoffer Thorsson

Moar!

With the size of the tournament room, it's likely we'll be discovering people for the first time all day long. Here are a few more notables we've spotted:

EPT Snowfest winner Allan Bække
Sam Chartier
Mike "Timex" McDonald taking a break from his poker sabbatical already
Clayton Mozdzen
Jesper Hougaard, as talkative and smiley as ever
EPT Warsaw third-placer Oleksandr Vaserfirer

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Volcano Eruption May Affect Tournament

It's not a headline we'd ever thought we would use.

With the volcano activity in Iceland causing massive ash clouds to sweep south, this has caused most of the UK's flights to be suspended today.

This means players such as James Akenhead, Chris Moorman, Lex Veldhuis, and Anthony Roux might not to be able to reach the tournament in time. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the trains in France are on strike so getting here from Northern Europe is nigh on impossible.

Great Scott

Andrew Scott has just picked up a small early pot.

From the big blind, Scott saw a flop in a three-way pot. The dealer spread out {K-Spades} {9-Hearts} {4-Clubs}, and the blinds checked. A bet of 525 from the third player drew a check-raise to 1,625 from the small blind. Scott called from the big, while the bettor folded to leave the blinds heads up the rest of the way.

They watched the {Q-Diamonds} hit fourth street, and the small blind put out another 4,000 chips. Scott called rather quickly, and the {A-Spades} filled out the board. This time the small blind checked, and his slid his cards into the muck when Scott checked behind. There was no need to show the winning hand as the pot was pushed to Scott, moving him to about 37,000.

Tags: Andrew Scott

Who Else Is Here?

Well, to be honest, there's loads and loads and loads of people.

Among the hordes, we have spotted the following folks:

- Team PokerStars Pro and aviator shades enthusiast Arnaud Mattern
- EPT Warsaw winner Joao Barbosa
- EPT Prague final tablist Stefan Matsson
- EPT Kyiv winner Max Lykov
- Team PokerStars Pro and all-round Russian legend Alex Kravchenko
- Amiable New Zealander Richard Grace
- WSOP bracelet winner and, more importantly, PokerNews Cup Alpine winner Marc Naalden
- EPT Prague winner and serial EPT do-weller Jan Skampa
- Humberto "SHAAAAAAAAAARRRRKKK!!!" Brenes
- Amsterdam Master Classics winner Kristoffer "sumpas" Thorsson
- Hendon Mobber Barny Boatman

Huge though this field may be, it's got itself some pedigree.

Reports From the Frontier

The low-numbered tables are situated about as far away as you can walk in this casino and still be in the casino. We packed a lunch and ventured to the far reaches of the building to see if we could find some notables. And we could. Here's just a smattering of the field in the far corner of the room:

David Steicke
Dragan Galic
Marc Naalden
Andrew Chen
Michel Abecassis
Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick

And Team PokerStars Pros Humberto Brenes, Chad Brown, Michael Keiner, Irene Baroni, and Nicola Fedeli.

Phew. Plenty more names to come as we continue to explore the field.