2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura

Main Event
Day: 3
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

Break Time Chip Counts (full)

Player Chips Progress
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
760,000
10,000
10,000
PokerStars
Toby Lewis gb
Toby Lewis
681,000
521,000
521,000
Nicolo Calia it
Nicolo Calia
650,000
450,000
450,000
Teddy Sheringham gb
Teddy Sheringham
545,000
255,000
255,000
PokerStars
Brandon Cantu us
Brandon Cantu
530,000
-230,000
-230,000
JP Kelly gb
JP Kelly
483,000
148,000
148,000
PokerStars
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
481,000
131,000
131,000
Marco Leonzio it
Marco Leonzio
450,000
140,000
140,000
Janos Toth hu
Janos Toth
443,000
85,000
85,000
Fabrizio Ascari
Fabrizio Ascari
350,000
72,000
72,000
Grzegorz Cichocki pl
Grzegorz Cichocki
333,000
86,000
86,000
PokerStars
Erik Van Den Berg nl
Erik Van Den Berg
313,000
239,000
239,000
PokerStars
Johan Berg
Johan Berg
312,000
-19,000
-19,000
Tom Johansen
Tom Johansen
309,000
22,000
22,000
PokerStars
Kevin O'Donnell us
Kevin O'Donnell
257,000
157,000
157,000
Jason Lee us
Jason Lee
252,000
-60,000
-60,000
PokerStars
Guillermo Garcia
Guillermo Garcia
245,000
-14,000
-14,000
PokerStars
Boyan Bonev
Boyan Bonev
236,000
110,000
110,000
Filipa Cerqueira
Filipa Cerqueira
231,000
-46,000
-46,000
Konsta Vesterinen
Konsta Vesterinen
230,000
80,000
80,000
Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
229,000
-109,000
-109,000
PokerStars
Frederik Jensen dk
Frederik Jensen
220,000
-56,000
-56,000
EPT 1X Winner
Frank Calo
Frank Calo
195,000
-30,000
-30,000
Patrick Carron
Patrick Carron
190,000
-44,000
-44,000
PokerStars
Sergio Coutinho pt
Sergio Coutinho
170,000
-10,000
-10,000

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Karo-lak's Chips

After two levels of little cards and little luck, Michal Karolak finally found a hand to move all-in with, he pushed in with {A-Hearts} {K-Spades} and Tom Johansen made the call with {K-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}. The latter spiked two jacks on the flop and Karolak was done for, unable to hit running cards for a straight or catch two aces.

If Anyone Cant

It's really not been Brandon Cantu's level - he's dropped from the giddy heights of chip leader down to the realm of mere mortals and just took another large hit as Hungarian Martin Czuczor got a full double up winning a big preflop race. Czuczor's {9-Hearts}{9-Clubs} were up against Cantu's {A-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}. Cantu spiked the Queen on the {Q-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {4-Hearts} flop, but when the {9-Diamonds} showed up on the turn he couldn't help a little twitch of frustration and a sotto voce 'Jesus Christ!' The {A-Clubs} river didn't add anything but salt into the wound.

175k x 2 for Czuczor while Cantu drops to around 340k.

Tags: Brandon CantuMartin Czuczor

Custodio Experiences Zero-Degree Deck

Tough break for button-raiser Henrique Custodio now, as he finds himself a great hand and a trip to the rail. He made it 13,500 to go when it folded to him, and he waited while Joaquin Culebras slowly moved in preflop. He snapped, as you do with {K-Diamonds}{K-Spades} and you've been active on the button - but he was up against Culebras' {A-Diamonds}{A-Spades}. The board brought no surprises and Custodio has to go collect his prize of €7,822 for making it into this payout bracket.

"Unlucky," sympathised Thorson, and you have to agree it was.

Tags: Henrique CustodioJoaquin Culebras

Marcin Onwards

Marcin Horecki
Marcin Horecki

Team PokerStars Pro and possessor of one of the shiniest heads and some of the shiniest sunglasses in the room Marcin Horecki is up to around 300,000 after knocking out Thorsten Schafer. We didn't see the action, but it was blind on blind so we are hazarding a guess that Horecki shoved and the short-stacked Schafer called all in.

Horecki: {k-Spades}{6-Hearts}
Schafer: {4-Clubs}{4-Hearts}

Board: {7-Clubs}{k-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{2-Spades}

Tags: Marcin HoreckiThorsten Schafer

I've Got A Bonev To Pick With You

Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly opened up to 15,000 from middle position before Boyan Bonev 3-bet to 41,500 from the small blind. Sizing up his stack, Kelly made the call to see a {K-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {3-Clubs} flop that both players checked.

Bonev then fired 48,500 on the {5-Hearts} which Kelly called before the Bulgarian bet 68,500 with just 60,000 behind on the {7-Spades} river. Kelly waited about a minute before moving all-in and Bonev immediately looked as though he hated life and everything around him in the world. He took just one more minute himself before folding.

Kelly now has 650,000.

Tags: JP KellyBoyan Bonev

Nobody Ever Believes Toby Lewis

Toby Lewis: he has it
Toby Lewis: he has it

We saw it on Day One with that ridiculous raising war with James Dempsey when he had a set, we saw it when he busted Coimbra, and now he's taken out Andras Nemeth with another big hand. To be fair, when he raised preflop and Nemeth threebet him, it was with {J-Spades}{J-Clubs}. Lewis sat quietly for half a minute before announcing, "All in," and getting an instant, "I call." Lewis, however, held {K-Hearts}{K-Diamonds} and watched while nothing on the {A-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{7-Spades}{2-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} board upset them, shook his opponent's hand and stacked his extra 150k.

Tags: Toby LewisAndras Nemeth

Calo Wars

Poor old Frank Calo.

First Evgeniy Zaytsev shoves for 61,000 UTG and Calo made a good call with {A-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} against Zaytsev's {A-Spades} {3-Spades} and then hit an even better {9-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} flop before a not so good {3-Hearts} turn or indeed {9-Hearts} river.

Then William Thorson pushed all-in for 27,000 with {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts} and Calo called with {A-} {K-} but the board came {10-Clubs} {J-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} and Thorson doubled up to 60,000. Calo dropped to around 150,000.

Tags: Evgeniy ZaytsevFrank CaloWilliam Thorson

Hollink Robs Horecki

The last EPT winner standing, Rob Hollink of Holland, just won a 385k pot from Marcin Horecki. It started quietly, threeway to a {A-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{6-Clubs} flop with not a lot in the middle. Mid position Hollink led for 20k, and Horecki raised to 61k. The small blind immediately left the action and Hollink then moved in. 130k more to Horecki, who gave it a slight pause before committing two thirds of his own remaining chips.

Horecki: {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts} for the nut flush draw
Hollink: {2-Clubs}{2-Diamonds} for the flopped set.

The turn and river came {J-Spades}{10-Spades} giving Hollink a new lease of life and dropping the Polish Team PokerStars Pro to just 80k.

Tags: Marcin HoreckiRob Hollink