2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 2
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

Not A Gross Fold

Steve 'gboro780' Gross thought for a little while on the turn of a {J-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {A-Spades} {8-Spades} board while facing a 22,000 bet from Maurizio Baravalle. Gross folded {10-Spades} {10-Diamonds} face up and Baravalle reciprocated, flashing {A-Clubs} {K-Hearts} to his American opponent.

Liz Lieu Loses Little

Liz Lieu raised preflop to 8,000 and Fabio Salvatore Di Stefano reraised all-in for 21,200 in total. An automatic call when it came back to Lieu as she tabled {A-Spades} {K-Diamonds} to his {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades} for a bit of 57/43 action. The board came {9-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} and Di Stefano doubled up to about 50,000, still rather short. Lieu takes a knock but she still has about 80,000 or so.

Another Smattering of Chip Counts

In no particular order. Really this time.

David Sands - 116,000
Yury Kerzhapkin - 430,000
Humberto Brenes - 78,000
Clayton Mozdzen - 51,000
Thomas Bichon - 245,000
Liz Lieu - 76,000
Russell Carson - 124,000
Oleksandr Vaserfirer - 171,000
Arnaud Mattern - 114,000
Luca Pagano - 110,000
Alfio Battisti - 86,000
Dan Shak - 183,000
Liv Boeree - 233,000
Kelly Kim - 72,000
Ramzi Jelassi - 440,000
Allan Bække - 505,000
Almira Skripchenko - 96,000
"ElkY" Grospellier - 137,000

Blain Had an Ace

No Blain, no gain
No Blain, no gain
We caught up with Dermot Blain on the turn of the {A-Hearts} {6-Spades} {K-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} board, just in time to witness him check-calling a bet from Mauro Cracolici. They saw a {3-Clubs} river and again Blain checked; Cracolici bet again, this time to the tune of 26,000 and leaving himself just 50,000 behind.

Blain tanked up for an age before eventually folding. "I had an ace," he told Cracolici as the pot headed the Italian's way. No feeling sorry for Blain, though - he's still on a very hefty 380,000 after that.

Tags: Dermot Blain

HEDLUND UPDATE

Being a true gentleman, Mr. Govert Metaal, who recently and spectacularly doubled through Peter Hedlund, bought the Swede a €200 bottle of wine to make up for it.

Hedlund was not interested in the sandwiches that casino staff brought him by way of apology for their slowness in delivering his booze and instead he distributed them among players at the surrounding tables, all presumably hungry owing to the absence of a dinner break today.

Worked out nicely for everyone, then.

Kaczka Doubles Up

Harrison Kaczka just doubled through Giuseppe Pantaleo after a 40/60 went his way. Kaczka's {K-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} was behind to {A-Spades} {Q-Spades} but not after a {3-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} board. Kaczka is up to about 90,000.

ElkY Can Count on the Abacus

Michel "The Abacus" Abecassis raised to 7,000 and big blind ElkY, who seems to have lost most of his chips to Allan Bække somewhere along the line, glumly called.

ElkY check-called 10,200 on the {J-Spades} {2-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} flop and then another 16,000 on the {3-Diamonds} turn. He checked again on the {3-Spades} river and this time Abecassis checked behind, turning over {J-Clubs} {9-Clubs}. ElkY flipped {A-Hearts} {J-Hearts} which was good enough to take it, and looked rather more cheerful as he raked in the pot.

Current standings - ElkY 110,000, Abecassis 39,500.

Tags: ElkYMichel Abecassis

Drying Up For Ryan

Danny Ryan raised to 8,000 preflop and Alexey Rybin called out of the small blind.

The flop was {K-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} and Rybin led out for 12,500. Ryan raised to 30,500 and Rybin instantly called.

Both players checked the {6-Clubs} turn before Rybin fired out 35,000 on the river. Ryan folded leaving himself very short and Rybin flashed the {K-Hearts}

Tags: Alexey RybinDanny Ryan

Valkenburger and Chips

Paul Valkenburg shoved under the gun for a rather sad-looking 40,000 and was met with a reshove from Patrick Carron in the cutoff. The button thought about it long enough to have the clock called but eventually folded. "Ace king?" enquired Valkenburg, but it wasn't. On their backs.

Carron: {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds}
Valkenburg: {Q-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}

Board: a harmless {J-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {5-Hearts} {K-Spades} {7-Diamonds}

Valkenburg doubled to almost 90,000.

Tags: Paul Valkenburg