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

Assorted Chip Counts

Evgeniy Zaytsev - 170,000
Ramzi Jelassi - 150,000
Jeff Sarwer - 125,000
Danny Ryan - 115,000
Matthias de Meulder - 90,000
Marc Inizan - 54,000
Jude Ainsworth - 47,000
Erica Schoenberg - 46,000
Luca Pagano - 37,000
Kelly Kim - 36,000
Jeffrey Hakim - 17,600
Mikhail Tulchinskiy - 14,000

Lanzaslide

With a board reading {2-Spades} {10-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} {3-Spades} {2-Diamonds} Daniele Lanza bet a very small 5,000 with almost 60,000 in the pot and Lanza only having around 30,000 behind.

Samlane Phomveha moved all-in having Lanza just covered and the Italian called, but was shown {10-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} to bust Lanza, the latter flashing the {Q-Spades} before shaking his assassin's hand and hitting the rail.

A Brace of Bust-Outs

Bust-Out #1

Vincent Gabel hit the rail when his {A-?} {4-?} failed to outdraw Oleg Tuntsev's {A-?}{K-?}.

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Bust-Out #2

Andrew Scott failed to make the grade when his pocket fives did not spike against Domenico Ficarra's pocket jacks. Ficarra rather unnecessarily shouted, "YESSSS!!!" and banged the table once the board had run out a bunch of blanks.

Elky Loses Medium Pot

But even a medium pot loss doesn't make much dent in Elky's stack after he lost a 30,000 when Domenico Antonio Tresa showed {Q-?} {Q-?} on the river of a {9-?} {9-?} {A-?} {2-?} {6-?} board.

"ElkY" still has 320,000. Just four times the average then.

Scheduling Notes

We'll give it to you right off the big board, just as it's written:

"Today we gonna play 6 levels or till 184 players."

Couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Lellouche Busts

Antony Lellouche has been eliminated after he bet 20,500 on a {3-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {9-Diamonds} {J-Spades} but found himself being raised all-in for another 40,000 or so. Lellouche tanked before making the call with {10-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} for both draws but was behind to Erik Tamm's {J-Clubs}{10-Clubs}. A fair number of bullets to dodge then for the Swede but the {9-Hearts} wasn't fatal to him, Lellouche out as a result.

Sunshine for Solina

Carla Solinas has doubled up to around 90,000. It seems that a raising war culminated with Solinas calling all in with {6-Clubs} {6-Spades} and finding herself up against the {K-?} {Q-?} of a player who appears to have mislaid his ID card.

Board: {2-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {5-Clubs}

Two Tidbits

The Oracle
The Oracle
EPT Copenhagen champion Anton Wigg is up to about 115,000 chips after dragging a small pot with pocket eights. The board showed {A-Clubs} {6-Spades} {J-Clubs} {J-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} when Wigg called a river bet from Damien Rony. Rony could only show queen-high, and Wigg stacked the pot without a word.

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Roy Winston is doing even better than that. We walked up to his table to see a board of {Q-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} {5-Clubs} {3-Spades} and more than 55,000 chips in the pot. Rainer Meyer had checked on fifth street, and Winston fired 37,000 as his wife kept a close eye on things from the rail. Meyer would tank for at least four or five minutes, clearly debating a tough decision. Finally, and reluctantly, he slid his cards into the muck.

"Two kings," said Winston as he dragged the pot towards him. Meyer seemed unconvinced. We're not sure whether or not we believe him either, but the fact that he has about 155,000 chips is undebatable.

Winston's bride came over and gave him quite the tableside kiss before whooshing back into the sea of spectators. "She shows up, I always get lucky," Roy added.

We love a good double entendre too.

Tags: Roy Winston

Boeree Cracks Aces With 7-2

Liv Boeree has doubled up in a less than conventional way after she told us she raised UTG with, err -- {7-Hearts} {2-Hearts} and got flatted by {A-?} {A-?}. The flop was {8-?} {6-?} {5-?} and Boeree bet 7,500 with about 22,000 behind quickly calling against her opponent's push and then making a straight by the river to get up to 60,000.

Highly amusing.

Tags: Liv Boeree

Mercier Up, Mercier Down

Jason Mercier has been a busy bee today and seems to have got all the way up to around 180,000 - before losing 50,000 of it doubling up another player. We only caught the very tail end of it, but Stanislav Bardetsky had {A-?} {K-?}, the board was raggy, and we just caught a glimpse of a {J-?} in Mercier's possession before the dealer swept his cards into the muck.

Mercier's on 130,000 after that.

Tags: Jason Mercier