2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
€956,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€2,825,000
Entries
113
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0

Lellouche Doubles

Antony Lellouche made it 5,500 to go and was called by Yohan [Removed:250] and PokerStars Team Pro Switzerland's Rino Mathis. [Removed:250] checked blind and the flop came down {4-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{5-Hearts}.

Mathis bet 7,200 and was called by both Lellouche and [Removed:250]. Again, [Removed:250] checked blind and the turn brought the {k-Hearts}. Mathis checked, and Lellouche moved all in for 10,100. [Removed:250] folded and Mathis called.

Lellouche tabled {a-Hearts}{a-Spades} and Mathis showed {9-Hearts}{j-Spades}.

The river brought the {6-Spades} and Lellouche found a double up through Mathis.

Tags: Antony Lellouche

Still One Short

Good news, kids.

Luke Schwartz has taken his seat, and the television crew has chosen to film his table for now. It must still be a bit early for the antics, because FullFlush is quiet as a mouse so far.

We're still waiting on Gus Hansen, the only player not in his chair yet. Hansen better hurry; his stack is being blinded off down toward twenty big blinds with a quickness.

[Removed:250] Gets One

Alexander Kravchenko made it 6,100 to go and Yohan [Removed:250] made the call and checked blind from the small blind. As the flop was coming down, Kravchenko said, "I'm not going to bed blind."

Flop: {a-Hearts}{10-Spades}{7-Diamonds}

Kravchenko bet 6,100 and [Removed:250] bumped it up to 26,000.

Kravchenko gave it some thought, and then some more thought, and asked, "Do you have a ten?" To that, [Removed:250] said "Pay and I show."

Kravchenko didn't pay. He mucked his cards and [Removed:250] flipped over his cards, showing {3-Spades}{7-Spades}. "You win or I win," he said. "I win," said Kravchenko.

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 300

Smirnov On Ice

Matthew Woodward just knocked off Mikhail Smirnov in a pretty sizable pot.

The board showed {J-Spades} {A-Spades} {8-Clubs} {5-Spades} when Smirnov shoved, and Woodward made the quick call with his {Q-Spades} {10-Spades} flush. Smirnov's {K-Spades} {7-Diamonds} was in bad shape, and he was looking for a spade to stay alive. The river {5-Hearts} was indeed not a spade; it was the wrong color entirely, and Smirnov has been eliminated.

Tags: Matthew WoodwardMikhail Smirnov

Timoshenko Doubles by Semi-Dark Call

"Did you see what just happend," asked Yevgeniy Timoshenko when we walked by the table. We didn't, so he told us.

Timoshenko, who was short, had moved all-in. Yohan [Removed:250] apparently looked down at one of his cards, saw the {8-Clubs} and called, because that was his "favorite card."

Timoshenko had {q-Hearts}{10-Clubs}. [Removed:250] obviously had the {8-Clubs} and to go with that, the {k-Clubs}.

The board came down {q-Spades}{6-Spades}{9-Spades}{4-Spades}{6-Clubs} and Timoshenko doubled up, although he is still sitting pretty short.

Tags: Yevgeniy Timoshenko

Don't Bluff Mizzi

When we joined the action, the pot was heads-up with about 85,000 chips in the middle of the table. The board showed {9-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {7-Spades} {9-Spades}, and Antoine Saout fired a bet of 56,000 at the pot.

His lone opponent was Sorel Mizzi, and Mizzi went into the tank as he cut out the calling chips and shuffled them between his fingers. After several curious glances in Saout's direction, the chips went into the pot.

Saout quickly mucked, and Mizzi showed his good-enough {A-Spades} {Q-Hearts} to take that sizable pot with just his naked ace-high. A wave of surprise worked its way around the table as the other players assessed what they had just seen. Matt Marafioti finally piped up with a sort of backhanded compliment:

"I feel bad for this guy," he said pointing at Saout. "He makes sick bluffs and gets called by morons. And he gets sucked out on in the Main Event by idiots shoving with deuces. Sh***y life!"

Mizzi simply stacked his newfound chips quietly, finally looking up to smirk and quip, "Don't bluff me," to anyone still listening.

Mizzi is right around 400,000 after that pot, while Saout drops down to 202,000.

Tags: Antonine SaoutSorel Mizzi

Yacoub Doubles Through The G

It was all-in preflop between Tony G and Dori Yacoub.

Tony G: {5-Clubs}{6-Spades}
Yacoub: {10-Clubs}{10-Hearts}

The board rolled out {5-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds} and it was looking good for The G. The {8-Spades} fell on the turn, but it was the {10-Spades} that hit the river that sent Yacoub jumping out of his chair, happy not to be making an exit.

Tags: Tony G

Chippies

A smattering of chip counts from around the tables, in no particular order:

Tobias Reinkemeier - 320,000
Chad Brown - 99,000
ElkY - 305,000
William Thorson - 70,000
Allen Bari - 235,000
Leo Fernandez - 165,000
Matthew Woodward - 228,00
Tom Marchese - 380,000
Luke Schwartz - 215,000
Tony G - 46,000
Markus Golser - 297,000
Sorel Mizzi - 410,000
Matt Marafioti - 106,000
Antoine Saout - 202,000
Paul Berende - 192,000

Paging Gus Hansen

Matt Marafioti just stood up from his chair to take a picture of Gus Hansen's abandoned and dwindling stack.

Hansen has yet to show up, despite phone calls saying that he's on his way. There are currently 22,900 chips in front of Hansen's empty chair, and the blinds are coming around fast at his six-handed table.

Tags: Gus HansenMatt Marafioti