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

Gros' Misfortune

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier

Many thanks to our roving reporter Arnaud Mattern, who found out what happened to his fellow Frenchman and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier through the mystical medium of the text message.

It turns out that ElkY had made a couple big folds - among them, he folded a set against what we believe was a flush - and so he was down to around 15,000 when William Thorson opened for 725 in mid position during the 150/300 level. There was one call before ElkY squeezed to 2,500 with {q-}{q-}. Thorson made it 8,000, ElkY got the whole lot in, and Thorson's {a-}{k-} spiked to send ElkY back out into the sunshine where his aviators serve an actual purpose.

For the rest of the week, though, life is indeed a beach for Grospellier.

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