Main Event Day 1a | 2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

04-15-2010 23:02 UTC+2

The Pena Is Mightier Than The Sword

[user76023]

Alejandro Pena is really quite happy as of right now. He just bust both Alex Kostritsyn and another player who were both holding {A-?}

on a

board against Pena's {5-Spades}

. Neither the case king or ace came and Pena is sitting pretty.

04-15-2010 23:02 UTC+2

Darioooooo

[user66118]

Mr. Minieri picked up a double up in the first level, and that's never good news for an EPT field. During an earlier break, Glo pulled aside Dario for a quick and energetic conversation. Have a look-see:

04-15-2010 23:23 UTC+2

Significant Seven

[user66118]

As is standard at the EPT, the clock was paused with about ten minutes left, and a card has been drawn. It was a seven, and we'll play that many hands before calling it a night.

04-15-2010 23:24 UTC+2

Oh No, Dario!

[user66118]

We were trying to pick our way through the masses of humanity, but we barely made it to the table to see the end result of the hand. Dario Minieri and Frank Rusnak with all the chips in the middle, Rusnak with the shorter of the two stacks.

To be honest, we're not even sure when the money went in. It looks like possibly on the flop or turn, but either way, it was Minieri's {9-Spades}

up against Rusnak's {Q-Hearts}

.

The board filled out thusly: {9-Diamonds}

. Minieri was ahead on the turn, but the jack ball on the end cost him a big chunk of his chips. We're still waiting for Rusnak to stack up that double, but we can tell you Minieri is down to about 44,000 on the last hand of the night.

04-15-2010 23:43 UTC+2

End Of Day 1a

[user76023]

And scratch the first day of this long tournament.

Just at the death, we lost Ludovic Lacay as he called a 12,500 bet on a {J-Hearts}

flop before shoving the {9-Spades}

turn when it was checked to him. He was fairly speedily called by {Q-Hearts}

and could only show {A-Diamonds}

. The

changed nothing on the river and Lacay was out.

We lost many big names today, including Jesper Hougaard, Erick Lindgren, Chad Brown and Barny Boatman. However, home hopes Dario Minieri and Luca Pagano, as well as former winner Arnaud Mattern have all survived into the second day.

At the end of the day, it is looking as though Russian Alexey Rybin is the chip leader having amassed a whopping 213,100 or so. A brief search around the room leads us to believe that no-one else has anything over the 200,000 mark.

That's all from San Remo for tonight. We'll see you at midday tomorrow for Day 1b!

Main Event

Day 1a Completed