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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On Yer Bus

That pesky volcanic cloud spinning off Iceland has grounded all flights out of the United Kingdom until at least 6:00pm this evening. That presents a problem for a number of players who are stuck now in London en route to this event, stuck either at the airport or at Paddington Station. Among those stranded without a way here are Peter Eastgate, Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, James Akenhead, and Chris Moorman.

PokerStars to the rescue!

From our spot in the media room, we can hear the staff scrambling to come up with a good solution. They've just booked a coach bus in London, and it's going to pick up the players and start the trek towards San Remo. We figure it's about 20 hours by bus, so we expect to see a few sleep-eyed players roll in at about 12:15pm tomorrow. That'll give them just enough time to take their seats before registration closes.

Talk about cutting it close. Either way, we'd give a day's wages to be on that bus ride.

Tags: busPokerStarstravel

Florian Floored

Langmann in trouble
Langmann in trouble
David Lloyd raised preflop to 525 and Andre Santos called before Florian Langmann bumped it up to 2,200 from the button. Rony Halimi reraised to 6,000 in the big blind quickly making Lloyd and Santos fold. Langmann asked how much Halimi had back before setting his opponent all-in, the Frenchman snap-called.

Halimi: {A-Hearts} {A-Spades}
Langmann: {Q-Spades} {Q-Hearts}

The board of {6-Spades} {K-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {8-Hearts} meant Langmann lost a huge chunk of his stack as Halimi doubled up to 36,000.

Tags: Florian LangmannRony Halimi

Getting Bække All the Time

Allan Bække (small blind) and one opponent (button) saw a {J-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {5-Clubs} flop. Bække checked and his opponent bet 1,000, but Bække now made it 2,350. Mr. Button spent a long while considering his options, and eventually folded, leaving himself with around 15,000 and a sour expression on his face.

Bække is flying high on around 50,000.

Tags: Allan Bække

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Contrasting Fortunes

Mr. Minieri
Mr. Minieri
It's all been going rather swimmingly for Dario Minieri since his slice of good fortune. He just picked up another multiway pot after betting 1,750 on a {Q-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {4-Spades} getting all his opponents to fold.

Meanwhile Laurence "rivermanl" Houghton is having slightly more trouble getting out of the starting blocks. He opened to 500 preflop and fired 650 more on the {K-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {6-Clubs} flop but had to give up when he was instantly check-raised by the big blind to 1,700.

Tags: Dario Minieri

Needle King Gets the Sharp End of the Stick

With around 5,000 in the pot and three players in the hand by the {4-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {A-Diamonds} flop, Marc Naalden (under the gun) bet out 3,700. The gentleman in the cutoff looked at his hole cards and presumably didn't like them as he folded. The gent in the small blind, however, spent some time counting various stacks of chips before flat-calling.

They went heads-up to the {10-Diamonds} turn and Mr. Small Blind instantly announced all in. Naalden grinned broadly and folded.

Naalden dropped to 21,000.

Tags: Marc Naalden

Rui-ing The Bluff

A player opened to 450 and Rui Milhomens made the call. Stefan Mattson reraised to 1,650 behind and both players called.

The flop caming {3-Spades} {A-Spades} {9-Clubs} and it was checked to Mattson who bet 3,050. The first player folded but Milhomens check-raised to 7,900. Mattson made the call before they both checked the {3-Clubs} turn.

On the {8-Spades} river, Milhomens fired out 11,050 and Mattson tanked before calling with {Q-Spades} {Q-Clubs}. A good call since Milhomens could only show {6-Hearts} {6-Clubs} for a bluff.