2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 5
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Event Info

2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
5♠5♦
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
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Where Are They Sitting?

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[user46392]
Well, not yet - but this is where our 24 remaining contenders will be sitting when play kicks off at 2pm.

Table 1
Seat 1: Liv Boeree (1337000)
Seat 2: Toni Pettersson (464000)
Seat 3: Ronny Kaiser (2032000)
Seat 4: Luigi Pignataro (1012000)
Seat 5: Dermot Blain (2568000)
Seat 6: Dmitry Stelmak (2284000)
Seat 7: Mohsen Tayfeh (1788000)
Seat 8: Giuseppe Diep (1337000)

Table 2
Seat 1: Erik Tamm (1299000)
Seat 2: Paul Berende (2002000)
Seat 3: Ramon Demon Cserei (2141000)
Seat 4: Alexey Rybin (1586000)
Seat 5: Thang Duc Nguyen (1641000)
Seat 6: Jakob Carlsson (1812000)
Seat 7: Kadir Karabulut (744000)
Seat 8: Allan Baekke (3483000)

Table 3
Seat 1: Michael Piper (1255000)
Seat 2: Claudio Rinaldi (547000)
Seat 3: Jens Thorson (1750000)
Seat 4: Paul Valkenburg (549000)
Seat 5: Atanas Gueorguiev (1736000)
Seat 6: Armando Graziano (708000)
Seat 7: Per Albin Linde (1270000)
Seat 8: Claudio Piceci (1872000)

Day 5 is Alive

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Bække-to-Bække champion?
Bække-to-Bække champion?
Good morning and welcome back to the Casino San Remo for the penultimate day of this year's record-breaking EPT.

1,240 players started. Only 24 remain. Everyone here is guaranteed a rather tasty €30,000 - but that is a mere shade of the whopping €1,250,000 on offer for last man standing come tomorrow.

Chip leader by a long way is Mr. Allan Bække of Denmark. If his name doesn't sound familiar to you then shame on you as you really haven't been paying attention this season - Bække is currently in a very good spot not only to become the first ever two-time EPT winner but also to do it back-to-back after taking down the inaugural EPT Snowfest last month.

However, he's going to have to make it through a minefield of top-class players including Liv Boeree, EPT Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen, PCA High Roller finalist Dmitry Stelmak and Jens Thorson, 21-year-old brother of Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson. As various volcanoes and so on have proved this week, literally anything can happen.

Play is due to begin at 2pm today and has moved from the casino floor to the rather nice theatre situated inside the casino building. In a break from the past few days, you can watch it all from the comfort of your computer screen, as EPT Live will be up and running all day.

The plan is to play down to a final table of eight, and if the last day or two is anything to go by, it shouldn't take too long at all. See you at 2pm.

Not Yet, But Soon

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Players are debagging and stacking their chips over in the frankly fantastic theatre, but we understand that there are a few problems with the live feed at the moment which might delay the start a little. Watch this space...

Level: 24

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 3,000

Rybin It Up

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Alexey Rybin raised to 75,000 and Thang Duc Nguyen flat-called; everyone else folded and they went heads up to the flop.

Flop: {Q-Spades} {A-Clubs} {4-Diamonds}

Rybin bet out 150,000 and looked bored. After a moment Nguyen called.

Turn: {K-Hearts}

This time Rybin checked. So did Nguyen, and they saw a river for free.

River: a dangerous-looking {J-Diamonds}

Rybin immediately reached for chips and bet out a quarter-million of them. Nguyen folded, and Rybin took the pot.

Tags: Alexey RybinThang Duc Nguyen

Level: 25

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 4,000

Paul Valkenburg Eliminated in 24th Place (€30,000)

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Paul Valkenburg - 24th Place
Paul Valkenburg - 24th Place
Dutchman Paul Valkenburg reraised all-in from the big blind against Michael Piper's cutoff raise only to be quickly called by the Englishman.

Valkenburg: {A-Hearts} {8-Clubs}
Piper: {J-Clubs} {J-Hearts}

The board came {J-Spades} {4-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {8-Hearts} {A-Spades} and Valkenburg managed to make eights full, but there was a slight problem in that Piper had made jacks full to knock him out.

Tags: Michael PiperPaul Valkenburg

Rybin Takes One From Baekke

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Alexey Rybin raised preflop to 85,000 and Allan Baekke called from the button.

The flop came {8-Spades} {2-Hearts} {6-Spades} and Rybin fired out 150,000, Baekke made the call fairly speedily.

The turn was the 250,000 and Rybin quickly bet 250,000 this time. Baekke sighed and folded, Rybin showed the {8-Hearts}

Luigi Pignatoro Eliminated in 23rd Place (€30,000)

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Luigi Pignatoro
Luigi Pignatoro
Liv Boeree raised to 85,000 and it folded around to Luigi Pignatoro on the button, who announced all in for around 1.1 million. Back to Boeree - who announced call without a moment's thought.

Pignatoro: {A-Spades} {10-Diamonds}
Boeree: {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds}

Board: {5-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {3-Hearts}

Boeree naturally flopped quads and left Pignatoro drawing dead. "Must be nice to be you," said tablemate Dermot Blain as Pignatoro exited in 23rd place. Indeed.

Boeree is up to around 2.4 million.

Tags: Liv BoereeLuigi Pignatoro

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