Main Event Day 5 | 2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

04-20-2010 20:00 UTC+2

Piceci Pushes, Pushes Gueorguiev Off

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Atanas Gueorguiev raised to 140,000 with around 900,000 behind, and it folded right around to Claudio Piceci in the small blind who, with his fingers to his temples like he had a really bad headache, pushed his whole stack across the line.

Piceci's all-in was for 1,120,000, enough to cover Gueorguiev. Gueorguiev spent some time considering it, and eventually folded with a shrug.

Tags: Atanas Gueorguiev Claudio Piceci

04-20-2010 19:55 UTC+2

Blain Squeezes In

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Under the gun, Dmitry Stelmak opened to 145,000. Around on the button, Michael Piper asked how much Stelmak was playing before very slowly making the call. The small blind folded, but Dermot Blain appeared to be having sinister thoughts in the big blind. After checking his cards two or three times and eyeballing his stack for a minute, he quietly announced, "I'm all in." His opponents passed, and Blain will add more than 300,000 chips to his stack without having to take a flop.

Tags: Dermot Blain Dmitry Stelmak Michael Piper

04-20-2010 19:55 UTC+2

Bække Shoves, Piceci Folds

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It folded around to Allan Bække in the small blind, who announced all in. Big blind Claudio Piceci looked him up and down like he was really considering it - but eventually he passed, and Bække got his big blind.

Tags: Allan Bække Claudio Piceci

04-20-2010 19:51 UTC+2

Blain Digs Deep, Gets It Back Again

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Dermot Blain opened for 150,000 under the gun and Giuseppe Diep promptly pushed all in for 671,000. Blain spent a moment making some mental calculations - a call would cost him almost half his remaining chips - and then announced, "Call."

Blain: {A-Clubs}

Diep:

Board: "Split pot," said a disappointed-sounding member of the TV crew even before the flop had fully hit the felt - {5-Diamonds}

Tags: Dermot Blain Giuseppe Diep

04-20-2010 19:48 UTC+2

Pieci Attempts To 3-Bet Bække, Fails

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Allan Bække opened to 145,000 and Claudio Piceci made his first 3-bet on the feature table to 350,000.

The action came back to the Snowfest EPT winner who disregarded the new arrival's reraise by moving all-in. Piceci looked concerned but could not bring himself to call off his stack. He folded and Bække is back above the 2 million mark.

04-20-2010 19:48 UTC+2

Pettersson Fails to Push Stelmak Off

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Toni Pettersson raised, and Dmitry Stelmak in the big blind was the only caller.

Stelmak check-called 140,000 on the {A-Hearts}

flop and another 260,000 on the {7-Clubs}

turn. When Stelmak checked the {8-Clubs}

river as well, Pettersson checked behind and then mucked to Stelmak's {A-Clubs}

.

Stelmak - up to 2,650,000
Pettersson - down to a still chip-leading 4,800,000

Tags: Dmitry Stelmak Toni Pettersson

04-20-2010 19:40 UTC+2

Gueorguiev on the Ropes

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Atanas Gueorguiev open-shoved his last 595,000 chips into the pot with {A-Diamonds}

, and he found action from Ramon Cserei with the dominating stack and the dominating {A-Hearts}

.

The news was no good for Gueorguiev, but the door would open a bit on a flop of {7-Clubs}

. The

was a blank on fourth street, but a timely {8-Diamonds}

on the river made Gueorguiev the come-from-behind straight, doubling him up to about 1.3 million in the process.

With no dangerously short stacks at the featured table now, we'd expect to see the play open up a bit for the time being.

Tags: Atanas Gueorguiev Ramon Cserei

04-20-2010 19:39 UTC+2

Boeree In Among The 3-Bets

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Liv Boeree raised preflop to 140,000 from the cutoff but the newly chipped up Toni Pettersson made it 350,000 from the button.

Boeree gave the Finn an accusing stare, as though he stolen her favourite doll, but decided to fold.

The very next hand and Dmitry Stelmak opened to 150,000 from UTG and this time Boeree was 3-betting to the tune of 400,000.

Stelmak made the call but then checked the {Q-Diamonds}

flop to Boeree.

She asked, "How much are you playing?"

The Russian checked his stack, "2.1 million," was the reply.

Boeree slid out a full stack of the orange 25k chips onto the felt, testing the water with a cool 500,000 chip bet. Stelmak went to his chips for a split second then rethought and elected to fold his hand.

04-20-2010 19:37 UTC+2

Tamm Gets a Fold

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On a flop of {10-Clubs}

, we picked up a heads-up pot just as Erik Tamm checked over to Alexey Rybin. The Russian slid out a bet of 250,000, drawing an eventual check-raise to 600,000 from Tamm. Rybin's call came instantly, before Tamm had even released his chips into the pot.

The frightening {4-Hearts}

on the turn drew checks from both players, and the {10-Hearts}

filled out the board. Tamm loaded the gun with another 800,000 chips and fired it into the pot, sending Rybin into the tank for a couple minutes. He eventually folded, sending the 2.36-million-chip pot over to Tamm.

Erik Tamm is now the Captain of the featured table with just abouut 3.9 million chips.

Tags: Alexey Rybin Erik Tamm