Main Event Day 1b | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

04-26-2010 13:09 UTC+2

Tables of Death Updates

[user66118]

- Table Andy Black / Martin Wendt / Erick Lindgren / John Juanda has just picked up one Michael Binger to make this the toughest table in town.

- Table Thomas Bichon / Daniel Negreanu / James Mitchell has just been joined by Team PokerStars Pro ElkY. His mom calls him Bertrand Grospellier.

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

04-26-2010 13:16 UTC+2

Kitai Takes a Tiny Hit

[user46392]

Not the best of starts for lackadaisically-coiffed Belgian Davidi Kitai.(button) as he called a 750 bet from the gent in the cutoff on a {9-Hearts}

flop.

Mr. Cutoff checked the {10-Clubs}

turn but called the 850 bet from Kitai, and following two checks on the {4-Diamonds}

river Kitai discovered that his {9-Diamonds}

was not good enough to beat his opponent's {Q-Clubs}

. The Belgian dipped below his starting stack and looked a little disgruntled.

Tags: Davidi Kitai

04-26-2010 13:34 UTC+2

Early Action for Hougaard

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Jesper Hougaard picked up a nice pot when he called a bet from recent EPT San Remo finalist Alexey Rybin on the turn of a {3-Hearts}

board. The river came down the {J-Diamonds}

and this time Rybin checked. Hougaard bet 1,600, and thereby elicited an insta-fold from Rybin.

Hougaard looked like he was really enjoying stacking up his chips at the end of the hand, and was up to 33,000 or so.

Tags: Alexey Rybin Jesper Hougaard

04-26-2010 13:34 UTC+2

The Shark Takes a Bite

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Humberto Brenes made it 350 to go preflop. JP Kelly and one other person made the call.

The flop came down {j-Clubs}

.

Brenes made a bet of 700, which was raised by Kelly to 1,800. The third player got out of the way and it was the two Pros that went to the turn.

Both checked the {q-Clubs}

turn, but when Brenes made a bet of 2,200 on the {7-Diamonds}

river, Kelly mucked his cards.

Tags: Humberto Brenes JP Kelly

04-26-2010 13:46 UTC+2

Wiszowaty Gets Paid Off by Crazy Bluffer

[user46392]

Wow, some early good fortune for one Philip Wiszowaty as the gentleman in seat 1 opened for 375 and picked up two callers before Wiszowaty made it 2,175 from the small blind. Mr. Seat 1 called, the other two got out of their way, and they saw a flop.

Wiszowaty check-called 4,000 on the {5-Clubs}

flop and another 10,000 on the {8-Diamonds}

turn. This is level 2, remember. Blinds are 75/150. Wiszowaty checked the {2-Spades}

river too and must have been disappointed that Mr. Seat 1 finally checked behind, as Wiszowaty turned over {A-Clubs}

for top set. Mr. Seat 1 turned over {K-Spades}

for absolutely nothing. Maybe he had too much coffee at breakfast or something.

Mr. Seat 1 bluffed off another 4,000 next hand too. Absolute craziness.

Tags: Philip Wiszowaty

04-26-2010 14:01 UTC+2

Calia Coolered

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A very nice Italian lady appeared at the PokerNews bloggers' desk asking where she might find her friend Nicolo Calia. We looked him up on the player list, discovered that he was in the other room, and seeing as we were heading that way anyway we offered to show her the way.

So we made it to the other room, and we found Nicolo Calia all in and then busted.

We're not sure when the chips went in but we would guess on the flop or the turn.

Calia: {5-?}

Belkhayate El Mostafa: {Q-?}

Board:

"YES! I AM HERE!" shouted Mostafa, as he bumped his stack up to a very impressive 85,000. Calia meanwhile is now free to hava a pleasant and relaxed drink with his charming friend at the bar, as he is busto.

Tags: Nicolo Calia

04-26-2010 14:01 UTC+2

Batista Suffers Powerslam

[user76023]

Chad Batista is already heading back to his room at the hotel. He got it in with {K-Hearts}

against

on a

board and did not get there.

Meanwhile, on the same table Novelist Charlotte Roche has made an impression on Chris Moorman. "If it had been Ivey in that seat, he'd have been pretty impressed with himself so far," said Moorman. "She 3-barrels everyone and hasn't had a single hand go to showdown yet!"

04-26-2010 14:04 UTC+2

Who Else Is Over There?

[user46392]

By the by the number of tables in the other room may be small, but my are they perfectly formed.

Among the folks battling it out across the way are Claudio "Father Of Luca" Pagano, Carlos "The Matador" Mortensen, Leo Margets, Catherine Hong, Alfonso Amendola, Richard "Chufty" Ashby, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Rob Hollink and Vlad Zguba.

04-26-2010 14:04 UTC+2