Main Event Day 2 | 2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

04-17-2010 19:12 UTC+2

HEDLUND UPDATE

[user46392]

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.

04-17-2010 19:18 UTC+2

Blain Had an Ace

[user46392]

We caught up with Dermot Blain on the turn of the {A-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

04-17-2010 19:22 UTC+2

Taras Straightened Out

[user46392]

A nasty outdraw sent Mikulik Taras to the rail when he got his last in with {A-?}

against Maurizio Baravalle's {A-?}

.

Board: {8-?}

04-17-2010 19:39 UTC+2

Another Smattering of Chip Counts

[user66118]

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

04-17-2010 19:40 UTC+2

Liz Lieu Loses Little

[user76023]

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}

to his

for a bit of 57/43 action. The board came {9-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.

04-17-2010 19:45 UTC+2

Not A Gross Fold

[user76023]

Steve 'gboro780' Gross thought for a little while on the turn of a {J-Clubs}

board while facing a 22,000 bet from Maurizio Baravalle. Gross folded {10-Spades}

face up and Baravalle reciprocated, flashing {A-Clubs}

to his American opponent.

04-17-2010 19:47 UTC+2

Brokkar Doubles Up

[user46392]

Alexander Roumeliotis raised only for Jeroen Brokkar to shove from the button and Peter Krikkay to reshove from the small blind. Big blind Humberto Brenes got out of their way and, eventually, so did Roumeliotis. On their backs.

Brokkar: {Q-Spades}

Krikkay:

Brokkar doubled to a very respectable 175,000, while Krikkay dropped to 60,000 - just 20 big blinds.

04-17-2010 19:47 UTC+2

ElkY Back in the Game After Confusing Ascani

[user46392]

With around 100,000 in the pot by the time we arrived on the river of the {2-Spades}

board, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier bet 44,400. Across the table, Luca Ascani checked his hole cards and dwelled up. He counted out the call and put it to one side, then mentally assessed the size of ElkY's remaining stack (105,000) and then dwelled up some more.

"Either you are bluffing or you are lucky," he told ElkY. Actually that seems to sum up an awful lot of situations in poker as a whole. But we digress. Ascani continued to tank, and eventually got involved in some kind of discussion with Michel Abecassis that resulted in the floor being called (presumably Abecassis called time at some point during the discussion) but before the floorman had got there, Ascani had called.

ElkY turned over {A-Clubs}