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2010 PokerStars.net EPT Barcelona
Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Barcelona
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,790,000
Entries
758
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Go Go Go!
The players have all been introduced, the photos have been taken, the TV guys have done all the stuff they had to do and TD Thomas Kremser has been and gone on the mic.
There is only one thing that this can mean - shuffle up and deal.
Thanks to our friends at PokerNews.nl for the photo.
Level: 27
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 5,000
First Few Hands
In hand 1 Thor Stang opens to 125,000 and everyone folds. Then in hand 2 Georgios Skotadis moves all-in for 1,095,000 and everyone folds.
A few hands later Giuseppe Pantaleo moves all in on Francesco Notaro in the blind versus blind scenario and Notaro folded.
Notaro Doubles Up
The table's short stack, Italian Francesco Notaro has just doubled up through chip leader Giuseppe Pantaleo.
Pantaleo opened with a raise to 125,000 and when the action folded around to Notaro, he wasted no time in moving all-in for a total of 625,000 chips. Pantaleo made the call equally as fast and our first player was at risk.
Notaro: 
Pantaleo: 
These coinflip scenarios come up so often in poker but the ball was placed firmly in Notaro's court when the flop came down 
. The 
on the turn failed to change anything and when the river came down 
, Notaro had doubled up and Panteleo's huge stack had suffered minor damage.
No Letting Up
The shove-fest continued, as Georgios "NickDandolos" Skotadis shoved from the button - the second time in eight hands. He got no callers, and picked up another set of blinds and antes.
Francesco Notaro Eliminated in 8th Place (€70,000)
Francisco Notaro opened for 200,000 and over on the button Jesus Cortes Lizano re-popped for 570,000. Notaro announced all in, Lizano called, and they were on their backs.
Lizano: 
Notaro: 
Board: 
... 
The crowd went wild as Lizano, the only Spaniard left in this tournament and also currently everybody's hero after he delayed the tournament yesterday to complain that he had too many chips, spiked his queen on the river to knock out the Italian. While Notaro heads for the rail, Lizano took possession of the 2.87 million pot.
Georgios Skotadis Eliminated in 7th Place (€90,000)
We have lost Georgios Skotadis in 7th place just a few hands after losing Francesco Notaro in 8th place. Skotadis who won the Sunday Million on PokerStars only three weeks ago has run out of the run-good magic dust.
Thor Stang opened to 125,000 and Skotadis shoved his stack all-in to his immediate left and the action folded around to Stang. This was the third time Skotadis had shoved since play had begun and this time he got a caller in the form of the man from Norway.
Stang: 
Skotadis: 
Unlike the previous all-in there were no surprises as the board ran out 
and we had lost our second player of the day.
Puchkov Utilises Position
WSOP bracelet winner, Konstantin Puchkov has just added 1,050,000 to his stack after three-betting preflop from the button.
Jesus Cortes Lizano raised to 135,000 from the hijack seat, Kent Lundmark folded on the button and Puchkov three-bet to 290,000. Lizano made the call and it was heads up to the flop.
Flop: 
- The action went check, check.
Turn: 
- Lizano checks and the folds when Puchkov quickly bets 350,000.
Puchkov Hooks the Chip Lead
Shander de Vries had been pretty quiet at the table until this hand - and he's probably now wishing that he'd just kept his head down and not bothered with this one either.
De Vries raised to 125,000 under the gun and it folded all the way around to Konstantin Puchkov in the big blind who made the call. Puchkov check-called 125,000 from de Vries on the 
flop and another 225,000 on the 
turn; he checked a third time on the river and this time de Vries checked behind. We didn't get to actually see the hole cards (apparently these are not integral to the televisual enjoyment of a poker tournament), but we understand that de Vries showed pocket sixes which lost out to Puchkov's pocket jacks.
Puchkov now appears to be our chip leader and is in serious contention to pick up an EPT title to go with his WSOP bracelet.