Stay tuned for the bubble action.
2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€6,014,000
Entries
1,240
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 1,240
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Stay tuned for the bubble action.
The flop read
when the chips went in.10 minutes or so passed before they got to turn their cards over.
Cole Michael Robinson:
for two pairMichael Piper and his awesome moustache (photos to follow):
for a setTurn:
, leaving Robinson drawing officially deadRiver:
giving both players full houses but not actually changing anything.They shook hands and Robinson was out. "You cashed though," said Piper, but then immediately felt bad because Robinson informed him that he had not. As the shortest of the two bustees on the bubble, Robinson got nothing but the proverbial wooden spoon. He was a real gent about it, standing and smiling while Italians pushed cameras in his face.
Ladies and gentlemen, let the carnage begin.
Again, a pause of many minutes, but eventually a showdown.
Huber:
Mangione: er,
Board:
Huber doubled to stay in the game...
It looked like a raising war between Jakob Karlsson and Rainer Artur Meyer culminated in Meyer shoving from the button for 33,000 and Karlsson calling. There was a long wait as all the other tables finished their hands, and Meyer spent the time flashing his
and at the table and media, one at a time.So, showdown.
Meyer:
Karlsson:
Board:
Meyer was eliminated and propelled Karlsson into what we think is the chip lead at this time, although it's very hard to tell with the chaos out there right now.
Meyer actually managed to sneak into the money, though - details a-following...
It's always difficult for the players also as they're forced to sit around waiting for all the other tables to finish, in this case nearly twenty.
Finally, after a good five minutes of waiting, Tournament Director Thomas Kremser was able to take his position behind the table and announce the action.
Vittorio Fiume was the all-in player turning over
. Miltiadis Kyriakidea, who covered, flipped 
needing one of three bullets to dispatch Fiume and put everyone else into the money.The flop came
and a fatal looking which drew a loud, "Oohhhhh!" from the crowd."There is an ace on the flop, the all-in player requires the one remaining king in the deck otherwise he will be the bubble," declared Thomas Kremser.
Turn:
The tension mounted, "Neither player has a spade, the all-in player needs the case King, the
otherwise he will be out," said Kremser again. Silence.
River:
At that point, the roar in the room deafened everyone as even Kremser could not believe the single card in the deck to save the short stack. Someone even hugged the dealer as wry smiles appeared on the faces of several other players nursing short stacks.
The bubble continues. Extraordinary.
.Pedro Zagalo was the bettor, and he put out a smallish bet of 68,000. He was up against Day 1a chip leader Alexey Rybin, and Rybin moved all in over the top with a slightly covering stack. Zagalo had about 170,000 left in front of him, and he spent ages in the tank. It was at least seven or eight minutes before some of his table mates started to get a little restless. Clayton Mozdzen, in particular, was watching the clock tick tick away, and someone eventually called the clock. It ticked all the way down to five seconds before Zagalo slowly folded, sending the pot to Rybin.
Just for good measure, the Russian flipped up his airball
as he raked in that huge pot. Chip count forthcoming.
, in good shape to double up through Dennis Waterman's 
.A row of ducks walked through the flop as the dealer ran it out
. The on the turn was an eyebrow-raising card, and the that hit fifth street drew a loud sigh from both players. The board plays, the pot is split in half, and we head over to the other table.---
Or at least, we try to head over. There are no less than 50 members of the media doing the same thing, many of them armed to the teeth with monstrous video cameras. To put it bluntly, the etiquette is very poor here, and we were soon pushed out of the way and unable to really tell who was involved.
What we could tell from Thomas Kremser's announcing was that there was a player all in for 25,000 with pocket aces against
. A board full of blanks held his aces, and our mysterious players has picked up that crucial double. Still, 50,000 is quite short at this stage.
against the 
of Danilo Ettoris preflop. But the board came out 
and a glum-looking Jensen was consigned to the rail.
board, contemplating a 296,000 push from Kadir Karabulut while the customary Wall Of Media that appears out of thin air whenever ElkY is in a hand closed in around the table.ElkY was tanking up in a serious and lengthy manner, and not in the way that everyone else is at the moment, checking the screens to see whether they're in the money yet. This was a hardcore tank.
Eventually he called.
Karabulut:
for a flushElkY:
for a setRiver, with the Wall Of Media holding their collective breath:
Karabulut doubled up to around 700,000 with a fist pump. ElkY was left with 250,000 and stormed off through the Wall Of Media, perhaps to go and throw up in the gents'.
