2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura

Main Event
Day: 1b
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

Pass the Chip Counts on the Left Hand Side

Other-half-of-the-room chip counts are in the eager greasy paws of Djinn and Homer and being typed up now. All of our biggest stacks - Sorel Mizzi, Stephen Chidwick and Sam Trickett on 110,000 apiece - are on this side of the room.

Player Chips Progress
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
110,000
80,000
80,000
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
110,000
52,000
52,000
StakeKings
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
110,000
2,000
2,000
Nicolo Calia it
Nicolo Calia
61,500
16,500
16,500
Max Lykov
Max Lykov
50,000
-1,000
-1,000
Heinz Kamutzki de
Heinz Kamutzki
47,000
-1,000
-1,000
Brandon Cantu us
Brandon Cantu
45,000
18,000
18,000
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
35,000
-5,000
-5,000
Dmitry Vitkind ru
Dmitry Vitkind
35,000
500
500
Jan Skampa cz
Jan Skampa
21,000
-8,500
-8,500
EPT 1X Winner
Michael Binger us
Michael Binger
19,500
12,500
12,500
Fatima Moreira de Melo nl
Fatima Moreira de Melo
19,000
-16,000
-16,000
Dermot Blain ie
Dermot Blain
14,000
-4,700
-4,700

More Leaders, Losers and People Who Have the Same Chips They Started With

Player Chips Progress
Jonathan Weekes gb
Jonathan Weekes
72,000
David Williams us
David Williams
62,000
4,500
4,500
Dara O'Kearney ie
Dara O'Kearney
58,500
8,500
8,500
Sebastian Ruthenberg de
Sebastian Ruthenberg
46,000
-12,000
-12,000
Roberto Romanello gb
Roberto Romanello
42,000
-3,500
-3,500
EPT 1X Winner
Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
41,000
-25,000
-25,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
34,000
-24,900
-24,900
John O'Shea ie
John O'Shea
32,700
-5,800
-5,800
Tristan Clemencon fr
Tristan Clemencon
30,500
8,800
8,800
Richard Toth hu
Richard Toth
29,000
-5,000
-5,000
Ruben Visser nl
Ruben Visser
28,500
14,500
14,500
William Reynolds us
William Reynolds
28,200
3,000
3,000
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
28,000
1,800
1,800
EPT 1X Winner
Luca Pagano it
Luca Pagano
27,000
8,000
8,000
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
26,000
2,000
2,000
Poker Hall of Famer
Rob Hollink nl
Rob Hollink
25,500
11,500
11,500
$25K Fantasy
EPT 1X Winner
Ivo Donev at
Ivo Donev
20,000
-22,000
-22,000
Henri Kasper ee
Henri Kasper
16,000
-24,000
-24,000
Jeff Sarwer fi
Jeff Sarwer
11,500
-35,900
-35,900

Meul It Over

Max Lykov & Dmitry Stelmak
Max Lykov & Dmitry Stelmak

The board had been fully dealt and read {6-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{9-Spades} when we arrived. There was a little over 20,000 in the pot. It looked as though Dmitry Stelmak had checked to Christopher de Meulder on the button, who bet 6,000. Back to Stelmak, who went all in.

De Meulder sighed and asked, "How much?" 18,900 more, he was told - around half his remaining stack. He thought about it long, and hard, and then called - but mucked when Stelmak turned over {8-Clubs}{8-Diamonds} for a full house. De Meulder quietly got up and walked away, presumably to go and vomit in the bathroom or some such, while Stelmak stacked up his 56,000 in chips. When de Meulder returns it will be to a stack of less than 20,000.

Tags: Christophe de MeulderDmitry Stelmak

Last Break Before Bedtime

Mr. Kremser, with these eight-level days and no dinner break you are really spoiling us!

That's right, we are one 15 minute break and two short levels away from calling it a day. Back soon.

Russian To The Top

Every time in a tournament these days it seems, there's a Russian who comes from almost nowhere and is among the chip leaders. In Vilamoura, it's Leonid Bilokur who has amassed a huge stack of 140,000 and this was after he just lost several thousand when losing with {A-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} to a short stacked Antonio Lemos {7-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} on a {Q-Hearts} {2-Spades} {4-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {5-Clubs} board.

He's still the chip leader though.

Tags: Leonid Bilokur

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 50

NegreanOUT

The rollercoaster day experienced by Pokerstars Team Pro Daniel Negreanu has finally come to an end, the safety harness has risen and he has followed the Exit signs out of the tournament.

At one point with over 55k, the last levels had not been kind to him, and at last count he was down around 25k. Further than that, we expect, when a preflop raising war vs. Ivo Donev (him under the gun to 1,325, re-raise to 7k, move in, call) saw his stack at risk with {9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} vs. {J-Hearts}{J-Spades}. The bigger pair stayed in front, and abruptly that was the end of Negreanu, who beat a swift retreat. No photos in the gift shop, though, this is Portugal.

Tags: Daniel NegreanuIvo Donev

What Really Matters

It is all about the money, and this is how the €1,862,400 prizepool is going to be divvied up:

1 €467,835
2 €297,984
3 €186,240
4 €139,680
5 €93,120
6 €74,496
7 €55,872
8 €37,248
9-10 €27,936
11-12 €20,486
13-14 €16,762
15-16 €13,968
17-24 €11,174
25-32 €9,312
33-40 €8,381
41-48 €7,822
49-56 €7,263