It's brief-tan moment as level 11 draws to a close. Play will resume shortly; chip counts on their way.
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,862,400
Entries
384
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 384
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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 
but ran into Proudfoot's 
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
290,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
||
|
220,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
170,000
84,000
|
84,000 |
|
168,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
157,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
95,500
21,500
|
21,500 |
|
|
||
|
77,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
|
||
|
54,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
||
|
53,500
12,500
|
12,500 |
|
|
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|
36,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
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 
. Kelly's 
stayed ahead, and propelled one Brit to the heady heights of 225,000 while relegating the other to the rail.
A very weird hand played out between Alexey Golodyaev and Dan Heimiller, the board was reading 
, 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 
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.
Jonathan Proudfoot opened to 4,000 from the button and JP Kelly called in the small blind.
The flop was 
and Kelly check-called a bet of 7,000 from his compatriot before both checked the 
turn. The river was the 
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."
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 
, Finne was all in for 70,000 with 
. Looking pretty good for a chop - until the flop came down 
and the turn brought a second club, the 
. Finne stood up as though to leave - but sat down again with relief when the river was a harmless 
.
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
312,000
97,000
|
97,000 |
|
|
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|
|
242,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
205,000
66,000
|
66,000 |
|
203,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
200,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
|
|
194,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
|
194,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
|
||
|
192,000
98,000
|
98,000 |
|
||
|
190,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
190,000
94,000
|
94,000 |
|
|
170,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
|
168,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
|
167,000
57,000
|
57,000 |
|
|
165,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
||
|
161,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
150,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
|
||
|
150,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
150,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
146,000
146,000
|
146,000 |
|
|
139,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
|
||
|
139,000
139,000
|
139,000 |
|
|
||
|
133,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
127,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
|
|
125,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
125,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
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 
hit a 
flop plenty hard enough to commit his remaining stack (over 30k). Dmitry Gromov took him on with 
which immediately came good on the turn leaving the river just a lime wedge in the flat coke of defeat. Busto, while Gromov continues to build a very big stack - over 200k.
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 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 
and he didn't look directly as his took them on...
No hit and the final race was won by the pair sending him to the rail almost halfway through Day Two.
EPT San Remo champion Liv Boeree had dropped all the way down to 19,000 after she flopped two pair with 
on an 
board against Pedro Guedes's which counterfeited her two pair in a monster pot worth about 250,000.
Soon after Guedes knocked Boeree out when his 
held against her 
and even managed to flop a set.
