2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura

Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
€467,835
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,862,400
Entries
384
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 384
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Maxi Stack for Minieri

Yoohoo!
Yoohoo!

Alexander Dovzhenko made an opening raise which Jose Maria de Noronha flat-called. On the button, Dario Minieri reraised. Dovzhenko folded and de Noronha flat-called again.

They saw a {4-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{8-Clubs} flop which de Noronha checked. Minieri pushed an apparently random collection of chips across the line, which on close inspection turned out to be 4,950 in value. We had time to conduct this inspection because de Noronha spent some time sitting back in his chair, wondering what to do. Eventually he folded.

"Why didn't you reraise me?" Minieri asked him in his frankly fantastic heavy Italian cadences.

"Next time I reraise all in," promised de Noronha. They both laughed. Minieri was not done with his lesson in how to play cards, though.

"You raise and I reraise and you call," ("You RISE an I RERISE an you COLL,") "You raise and I reraise and you call again. Three-bet!"

Minieri is our runaway chip leader on 140,000.

Tags: Dario Minieri

Wendt All Go Wrong?

Martin Wendt: prefers indoors
Martin Wendt: prefers indoors

Yury Kerzhapkin just flopped a double up courtesy of his big blind {5-Spades}{7-Hearts} with which he'd presumably called the early-position preflop raise of Martin Wendt. The board fit him like a glove - {6-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} - and his straight move all in for just under 15k on the flop was called by Wendt who tabled {A-Diamonds}{A-Spades} and then made a noise like a kettle hissing as he saw the turn and river brick and most of his stack go to his right. Not best pleased, and now with just 8k, two hands later Wendt got a few chips back when Kerzhapkin raised to 1,025 on the button but passed when the big blind Dane moved in.

Tags: Martin WendtYury Kerzhapkin

Moar Sunshine!

Back out we go on to the balcony with our cameras and our sunglasses and whatnot. When we return we will be playing just two more levels before calling it a day.

Select Chip Counts From Around Break Time

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Arnaud Mattern fr
Arnaud Mattern
111,000
12,000
12,000
EPT 1X Winner
pokerstars
Profile photo of James Dempsey gb
James Dempsey
75,000
28,000
28,000
Profile photo of John Duthie gb
John Duthie
65,000
5,000
5,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Christer Johansson se
Christer Johansson
65,000
35,000
35,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Allan Bække
Allan Bække
55,000
15,000
15,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Juan Maceiras
Juan Maceiras
50,000
3,000
3,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Andre Dias pt
Andre Dias
50,000
21,500
21,500
Profile photo of JP Kelly gb
JP Kelly
37,000
21,000
21,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Tobias Reinkemeier de
Tobias Reinkemeier
32,000
3,000
3,000
Profile photo of Yury Kerzhapkin
Yury Kerzhapkin
29,000
2,500
2,500
Profile photo of Barny Boatman
Barny Boatman
14,000
4,000
4,000
Profile photo of Vicky Coren
Vicky Coren
12,000
1,000
1,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Martin Wendt dk
Martin Wendt
8,000
29,000
29,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Casey Kastle si
Casey Kastle
Busted
Profile photo of Antoine Amourette fr
Antoine Amourette
Busted
Profile photo of Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
Busted
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Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 50

Doesn't Bække Down

Bække in business
Bække in business

Allan Bække may not have the largest stack in the room but he's still wielding it aggressively - especially against those even shorter than he is... Just now he raised to 1,500 under the gun, and found Alexander Kovzhenko upping it to 4,200 in mid position. It passed back round to Bække who asked his opponent how much more he had, before throwing in around 20k total which covered him. Facing this four-bet, Kovshenko thought for a while then gave up on the hand.

Tags: Alexander KovzhenkoAllan Bække

Boatman Busto

Barny Boatman
Barny Boatman

Nursing a short stack for most of the last level - in fact not really having appeared to progress upwards chipwise today - Barny Boatman has been eliminated, his final race being one of two hands: {A-}{Q-} or {9-}{9-}, which were being swept into the muck as his neighbour became the beneficiary of the rest of his chips. Walking slowly away, he simply remarked, "I'm gone," to a friend at a nearby table before making his way out into, probably, the lovely early evening sunshine.

Tags: Barny Boatman

More Chippy Counts

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Antonio Esfandiari us
Antonio Esfandiari
137,000
32,000
32,000
StakeKings
Profile photo of Dario Minieri it
Dario Minieri
131,000
9,000
9,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Paul Foltyn gb
Paul Foltyn
105,000
63,000
63,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Michel Abecassis fr
Michel Abecassis
100,000
51,000
51,000
Profile photo of Dan Heimiller us
Dan Heimiller
80,000
7,000
7,000
Profile photo of John Duthie gb
John Duthie
70,000
5,000
5,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Fabrizio Ascari
Fabrizio Ascari
70,000
20,000
20,000
Profile photo of Pieter de Korver nl
Pieter de Korver
69,000
15,500
15,500
EPT 1X Winner
pokerstars
Profile photo of Antony Lellouche fr
Antony Lellouche
66,000
26,000
26,000
Profile photo of Henrique Pinho pt
Henrique Pinho
57,000
7,000
7,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Aaron Lerner
Aaron Lerner
52,000
15,000
15,000
Profile photo of Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
44,000
12,800
12,800
pokerstars
Profile photo of Toby Lewis gb
Toby Lewis
42,000
6,000
6,000
EPT 1X Winner
pokerstars
Profile photo of Teddy Sheringham gb
Teddy Sheringham
37,000
3,000
3,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Paul Berende nl
Paul Berende
32,000
3,000
3,000
Profile photo of Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
29,000
2,000
2,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
27,000
14,000
14,000
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax
Profile photo of Dan Carter
Dan Carter
24,000
2,500
2,500
Profile photo of Derek Lerner
Derek Lerner
21,000
6,000
6,000
Profile photo of James Mitchell gb
James Mitchell
21,000
27,000
27,000
pokerstars
Profile photo of Scott Montgomery ca
Scott Montgomery
18,200
2,300
2,300
Profile photo of Ricardo Sousa
Ricardo Sousa
14,000
3,000
3,000
Profile photo of Michel Dattani pt
Michel Dattani
10,500
4,250
4,250
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Yann Brosolo fr
Yann Brosolo
Busted

Lacay Pays Pinho

Ludovic Lacay, after brief trip to Valuetown
Ludovic Lacay, after brief trip to Valuetown

Ludovic Lacay is down to under 20k it looks like now, after paying off a Henrique Pinho river value bet. 8,500 was the amount, which Pinho bet out on the river of a {10-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}...{3-Clubs}...{7-Diamonds} board. Lacay thought for a long while before counting out the call, looking at it and his stack and then finally making it, but mucking when he saw the {5-Spades}{5-Clubs} in his opponent's hand.

Tags: Ludovic LacayHenrique Pinho