2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura

Main Event
Day: 2
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

The Stacks They Are A-Changing

Firstly, Jonathan Proudfoot seemed to have recovered from his early knock and with 75k got it all in preflop from late position vs. a big blind Toby Lewis, who was in a re-raising mood with his {A-Diamonds}{J-Spades} but ran into Proudfoot's {J-Diamonds}{J-Clubs} which held to pretty much halve his shiny new stack.

Across the room Vegard Nygaard, down quite a bit from his high chip point yesterday, bet off David Williams (also now nursing a mid-to-short stack) in a small blind on blind confrontation - but a couple of thousand is a couple of thousand when you're under 40k.

Also a stroke of good fortune for Fabrizio Ascari, whose pocket Threes flopped a house while the player to his left picked up the nut flush draw and got his stack in. A boost in chips for the Italian who has been in good shape chipwise right from the start of the whole tournament.

Here's a selection of other stacks which have seen some fluctuation this hour:

Player Chips Progress
Grzegorz Cichocki pl
Grzegorz Cichocki
290,000 -22,000
JP Kelly gb
JP Kelly
220,000 95,000
Fabrizio Ascari
Fabrizio Ascari
170,000 84,000
Andre Coimbra pt
Andre Coimbra
168,000 3,000
Joe Ebanks us
Joe Ebanks
157,000 -10,000
Antonio Tarantino
Antonio Tarantino
95,500 -21,500
Luca Pagano it
Luca Pagano
77,000 22,000
Dara O'Kearney ie
Dara O'Kearney
54,500 6,500
David Williams us
David Williams
53,500 -12,500
Vegard Nygaard no
Vegard Nygaard
36,000 -9,000
35,000 35,000

Flushed Away

James "Flushy" Dempsey - headed for the golf course
James "Flushy" Dempsey - headed for the golf course

James "Flushy" Dempsey, the man who won his first WSOP bracelet this summer ($1,500 PLO) and came as close as you can get to winning a second without actually managing to seal the deal (runner up in the $10,000 O8) will definitely not be picking up an EPT title this week as he has been knocked out of the running by fellow Brit JP Kelly.

It seems that Dempsey called all in to a five-bet from Team PokerStars Pro Kelly with {a-}{q-}. Kelly's {a-}{k-} stayed ahead, and propelled one Brit to the heady heights of 225,000 while relegating the other to the rail.

Tags: James DempseyJP Kelly

Heimiller's Crossing

A very weird hand played out between Alexey Golodyaev and Dan Heimiller, the board was reading {6-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {A-Spades}, the Russian had bet 9,100 and Heimiller raised to 20,100 only for Golodyaev to make it 34,100.

Heimiller made the call with neither having more than around 50,000 back, the {J-Hearts} came on the river and Heimiller now bet a very small 18,000 which got Golodyaev to fold. Sam Trickett looked on bemused by the entire proceedings but Heimiller was much more busy raking in the colossal pot.

Tags: Dan Heimiller

Wrong-Footed

Jonathan Proudfoot opened to 4,000 from the button and JP Kelly called in the small blind.

The flop was {J-Spades} {Q-Clubs} {7-Hearts} and Kelly check-called a bet of 7,000 from his compatriot before both checked the {8-Hearts} turn. The river was the {5-Hearts} and Kelly now led for 14,000 but Proudfoot raised to 42,000. Kelly thought for several minutes before calling and Proudfoot quickly mucked, Kelly not needing to show either.

He said however, "I hate that rule that I don't have to show but I may as well take advantage."

Tags: JP Kelly

Jugload of Chips for Toby

Toby Lewis - in the pink
Toby Lewis - in the pink

Young Brit Toby Lewis hasn't been playing for very long - he's only been around on the circuit for a year or so - but in that time he's already amassed an impressive list of cashes including 28th place at EPT Prague last year, a final table appearance at the PokerStars IPT Venice and a cash at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in April of this year. Not bad for just a whippersnapper - he's barely out of nappies, even in online circles where he goes by the moniker of "810ofclubs".

Lewis started the day as one of three Brits (motherland, represent!) in the top ten - the others being his somewhat more well-known buddies Sam Trickett and Paul "Pab" Foltyn - and although he's slipped down a little in the counts since then, he is still incredibly dangerous and his current 120,000 stack is still easily enough to do a lot of damage to the rest of his table.

Just now we watched him involved in a preflop showdown with Brock Parker lookalike Tim Finne. Lewis held {a-Clubs}{q-Clubs}, Finne was all in for 70,000 with {a-Spades}{q-Spades}. Looking pretty good for a chop - until the flop came down {7-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} and the turn brought a second club, the {7-Clubs}. Finne stood up as though to leave - but sat down again with relief when the river was a harmless {3-Hearts}.

Tablemate James "Flushy" Dempsey laughed and warned Finne, "Toby's built a career on that sort of thing."

"Well, I wouldn't call it a career," Lewis reflected.

Maybe not yet, but soon.

Tags: Toby LewisTim FinneJames DempseyFlushy

Chip Counts from the End of Level 10 (full)

Player Chips Progress
Grzegorz Cichocki pl
Grzegorz Cichocki
312,000 97,000
Pedro Guedes
Pedro Guedes
242,000 82,000
Brandon Cantu us
Brandon Cantu
205,000 66,000
Dmitry Gromov ru
Dmitry Gromov
203,000 21,000
Frank Calo
Frank Calo
200,000 107,000
Wolfgang Wurzer
Wolfgang Wurzer
194,000 109,000
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
194,000 17,000
Pieter de Korver nl
Pieter de Korver
192,000 98,000
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
190,000 -10,000
Frank Stumpf de
Frank Stumpf
190,000 94,000
Lothar Meier
Lothar Meier
170,000 69,000
Jonathan Weekes gb
Jonathan Weekes
168,000 56,000
Joe Ebanks us
Joe Ebanks
167,000 57,000
Andre Coimbra pt
Andre Coimbra
165,000 8,000
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
161,000 48,000
Gyula Szilagyi
Gyula Szilagyi
150,000 21,000
Andre Andrade
Andre Andrade
150,000 40,000
Evgeny Shnayder
Evgeny Shnayder
150,000 18,000
Gustavo Zito
Gustavo Zito
146,000 146,000
Tom Johansen
Tom Johansen
139,000 24,000
Erik Van Den Berg nl
Erik Van Den Berg
139,000 139,000
Toby Lewis gb
Toby Lewis
133,000 -2,000
Konsta Vesterinen
Konsta Vesterinen
127,000 39,000
Bruno Pedro Fonseca Pocas
Bruno Pedro Fonseca Pocas
125,000 75,000
Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
EPT 1X Winner
125,000 50,000

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Sometimes You Beat the Draw, Sometimes the Draw Beats You

I remember my father saying something like this, but about bears, I think it was. Anyhow, this always struck me as somehow profound and just now Tobias Heinsdorf experienced the sharp end of a draw as his {A-Hearts}{K-Spades} hit a {6-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{K-Clubs} flop plenty hard enough to commit his remaining stack (over 30k). Dmitry Gromov took him on with {Q-Clubs}{10-Clubs} which immediately came good on the {5-Clubs} turn leaving the {K-Hearts} river just a lime wedge in the flat coke of defeat. Busto, while Gromov continues to build a very big stack - over 200k.

Tags: Tobias HeinsdorfDmitry Gromov

Aaron Bad

Aaron Lerner in happier times and direct sunlight
Aaron Lerner in happier times and direct sunlight

A bad level for Aaron Lerner, which turned out to be his last. He was first spotted looking depressed (that's how we generally read head in hands, switching to head on table) after the lady in seat two took a reasonable pot from him the hand before (I only saw the dealer pushing up the turn and river, her hand being {K-}{Q-} and his dwell/muck combo on this though). Subsequently short, with less than 16k which he stacked, clicked, counted and messed into a pool repeatedly, he was just looking for The Spot and looked pained to have passed his button and resigned when he moved in on the cutoff instead. The button called him with {8-Clubs}{8-Hearts} and he didn't look directly as his {Q-Clubs}{J-Diamonds} took them on...

No hit and the final race was won by the pair sending him to the rail almost halfway through Day Two.

Liv In On A Prayer As The Vote Goes For Pedro

Liv Boeree - No longer as happy as this.
Liv Boeree - No longer as happy as this.

EPT San Remo champion Liv Boeree had dropped all the way down to 19,000 after she flopped two pair with {8-} {7-} on an {8-} {7-} {4-} board against Pedro Guedes's {Q-} {Q-} which counterfeited her two pair in a monster pot worth about 250,000.

Soon after Guedes knocked Boeree out when his {9-} {9-} held against her {K-} {10-} and even managed to flop a set.

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