Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,862,400
Entries
384
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Table of Possibly Even More Death
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So following that last Table Of Death, we have found another table to fill the hearts of your average qualifiers and recreational players with horror.
Seat 1: Team PokerStars Pro Nuno Coelho
Seat 2: Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Seat 4: Canadian chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer who finalled this event last year
Seat 7: EPT Omaha Player of the Year William Thorson
Seat 8: EPT Tallinn winner Kevin Stani
Seat 9: Team PokerStars Pro Matthias de Meulder
N.B. Flopping a Set Can Be Lucrative
Noah Boeken, whom I seem to recall attending the EPT right from its early inception, and who's been representing Holland in brightly coloured T-shirts with Team Pro Holland patches on them pretty much all the while, just won a hefty pot. It started off tamely enough, with some limpers including Boeken being raised by the player on his left to 550. Boeken made the call, and they saw a flop of 
. Check to the raiser, who bet 850, raised quickly by Boeken to 2,200. He didn't have to wait long for the call and 
turn. Now Boeken just bet out 3,800 - again, called. The river was the 
and something about it prompted his opponent to call once more (albeit somewhat reluctantly) when Boeken bet 8,200.
Boeken turned over his 
one card at a time, although very fast, which probably makes it an average-paced-roll overall.
Twintastic
After spending much of yesterday trying to remember which of the Lerner brothers was which (you can see Gloria's interview with them here), we arrived today to find that once again we are in for some identification problems. We knew that Team PokerStars Pro Matthias de Meulder was playing today, but his brother and fellow Team Pro Christophe was not planning to play the Main Event - until he won a seat in last night's supersat.
Both the Lerner brothers made it through yesterday, and now, purely for the novelty value of the thing, we are fervently hoping that both de Meulders make it to Day 2 as well. We also hope that, like the Lerner brothers, the de Meulders continue their current strategy of only one of them wearing glasses at any time.
Bok Alert - Twin Sets Out
No sooner featured than instantly-busto - and in one of those wince-inducing ways too - Matthias de Meulder is on the rail after finding 
and a caller preflop for his whole stack, which he was happy about for two seconds...
Jeff Sarwer was the gent responsible (although with pocket Kings you can't hold his enthusiasm to get the chips in against him) - disappointed when the Aces he'd feared showed up in the Dutch Pokerstars Team Pro's hand but delighted when the 
appeared on the turn to give him a twin-busting set.
De Meulder made a frustrated noise but calmly walked off while Sarwer waited a respectful beat before addressing the table: "Would anybody fold Kings there?" No reply, but you can probably take that as implicit agreement.
All You Need Is Eight
A min-raise open UTG to 300 saw two calls, including one from Jeff Sarwer. A couple of seats down and William Thorson reraised to 1,550 with Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier flat-calling in the big blind. The original raiser folded as did one of those previous callers but Sarwer threw in his 1,550 as well to see the flop three-way.
The board of 
was checked around to the 
turn, ElkY checked a second time and Sarwer fired out 3,200. Thorson called and the Frenchman folded before the was dealt, Sarwer gave up and checked and Thorson quickly checked behind.
The former chess-prodigy shrugged disappointedly, turning over 
for a missed flush draw with Thorson's 
had stayed ahead to win the pot for the Swede.
Negreanu's Back
Although Daniel Negreanu is being rather uncharacteristically quiet right now, he is immediately obvious to anyone who happens to stroll on to the tournament floor. Seated smack in the middle of the room, Mr. Negreanu is currently receiving what looks like a very thorough massage which involves the masseuse getting right under his t-shirt, and exposing a quantity of pale Canadian skin that in the context of a poker room seems almost scandalous. We particularly regret today that Portuguese law prohibits any photography inside the casino. Nevertheless, it does seem to bring a little of the beach indoors, as it were, and he does look very relaxed despite feeling the effects of what we understand was rather a big night.
First Break Chip Counts
As the final five minutes of the second level tick down, here are selected chip standings from our Day 1B players...
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
|
50,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
48,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
45,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
||
|
36,200
6,200
|
6,200 |
|
|
||
|
34,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
33,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
32,900
2,900
|
2,900 |
|
||
|
31,200
1,200
|
1,200 |
|
30,000 | |
|
|
||
|
27,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
||
|
26,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
25,250
-4,750
|
-4,750 |
|
24,500
-5,500
|
-5,500 |
|
|
||
|
21,600
-8,400
|
-8,400 |
|
21,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
|
||
|
19,550
-10,450
|
-10,450 |
|
|
||
|
18,200
-11,800
|
-11,800 |
|
|
||
|
12,800
6,300
|
6,300 |
|
|
||
|
10,500
-10,875
|
-10,875 |
|
||
Break O'Clock
It's time for 15 whole minutes of glorious sunshine. Lucky everyone.
Liv And Let Liv
With the board reading 
Liv Boeree fired out 500 against her preflop raising opponent who made the call.
The river was the 
and Boeree now bet 700 only to find her opponent raising it up to 2,100. The EPT San Remo champion looked perplexed with a "Hang-on-a-minute-guv'nor-that -ain't-s'pposed-to-be-'appenin g!" look on her face. After a couple of minutes she made the call and her opponent turned over 
for third pair. Boeree then flipped the gutshot straight-drawing 
which had managed to river second pair., good enough for the pot.