2010 PokerStars.net EPT Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
€825,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,790,000
Entries
758
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Gomez On The Rise

Team PokerStars Pro, Alexandre Gomes is back in business after eliminating Alfonso Mendez just moments ago.

Mendez open-shoved from the cutoff holding {a-Spades}{q-Hearts} for what turned out to be 35,000 but he did not plan on Gomes, seated on the button, to wake up and call with {10-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}

The final board came out {8-Diamonds}{k-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{4-Spades} and Gomes' pocket tens held up to catapult him to 76,000 in chips, having been down to just 20,000 around thirty minutes ago.

Whilst at this table I discovered a player who has so far been flying under the radar, a Ben Warrington who has a pile of chips in front of him worth 170,000. Keep your eye out for him

Tags: Alexandre GomesAlfonso MendezBen Warrinton

The Big Stacks Lose Some Pots

There is action and big stacks galore over at Table 28.

One of those big stacks is Team Pokerstars Pro Leo Fernandez and we just caught up with him as he lost a few of his chips in this hand. His opponent opened the action from the Button making it 3,700 to play and Fernandez called in the small blind. The flop was {10-Spades} {10-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} and both players checked. The turn was {9-Diamonds} and Fernandez bet 4,200 and his opponent called. The river was {j-Clubs} and both players checked.

Fernandez: {5-} {5-}

Opponent: {6-} {9-}

One of the other big stacks on the table is Roberto Romanello and he too just lost some of his chips.

Romanello opened under the gun to 3,700 and Jasper Wetermans called in the small blind. The flop was {a-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} and Wetermans checked and Romanello bet 4,300 and Wetermans called. The turn was {2-Clubs} and river {q-Clubs} and action was checked on both streets.

Romanello: {7-} {7-}

Wetermans: {a-} {k-}

Tags: Roberto RomanelloJasper WetermansLeo Fernandez

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 200

Table 20 Update

Over at table 20 we have [Removed:40] - sat in seat 1 - who recently cashed in EPT Vienna. World Series Bracelet owner Davidi Kitai sat in seat 4 with the short stack. Team Pokerstars Pro Matthias De Meulder is sat in seat 4 with 130,700 but the table chip leader is Haykel Vidal is sat with over 200,000 chips in seat 8.

The short stack Kitai has been all-in twice recently. The second time he received a scare but the first time he received a very reluctant call from De Meulder in the big blind. Kitai must have thought the writing was on the wall when he peeled over his {q-Hearts} {2-Hearts} but managed a little smile when he saw De Meulders {9-Clubs} {3-Clubs}. The board didn’t help De Meulder and Kitai ended his two all-ins with 18,200 and was still the shortest stack at the table by far.

Tags: Davidi KitaiMatthias De MeulderHaykel Vidal

More Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Nicolas Chouity lb
Nicolas Chouity
190,000
100,000
100,000
EPT 1X Winner
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
190,000
190,000
190,000
PokerStars
Jan Boubli
Jan Boubli
155,000
15,900
15,900
Fabrizio Baldassari it
Fabrizio Baldassari
147,000
17,800
17,800
Surinder Sunar gb
Surinder Sunar
135,000
8,500
8,500
Yury Kerzhapkin
Yury Kerzhapkin
135,000
88,000
88,000
Atanas Gueorguiev bg
Atanas Gueorguiev
120,000
79,900
79,900
Marc Naalden nl
Marc Naalden
115,000
52,500
52,500
Kristoffer Thorsson
Kristoffer Thorsson
100,000
6,000
6,000
PokerStars
Nicolo Calia it
Nicolo Calia
90,000
-7,700
-7,700
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
87,000
-44,000
-44,000
Poker Hall of Famer
Henri Kasper ee
Henri Kasper
80,500
30,400
30,400
Melanie Weisner us
Melanie Weisner
80,000
10,000
10,000
Alexandre Gomes br
Alexandre Gomes
75,000
55,000
55,000
PokerStars
Dan Murariu ro
Dan Murariu
75,000
6,000
6,000
Unibet Poker
Cristiano Blanco it
Cristiano Blanco
75,000
-6,900
-6,900
Paul Berende nl
Paul Berende
72,000
9,000
9,000
Leo Margets es
Leo Margets
70,000
31,800
31,800
Winamax
Luca Cainelli
Luca Cainelli
60,000
-4,800
-4,800
Imre Leibold ee
Imre Leibold
57,000
-11,500
-11,500
Gianni Giaroni
Gianni Giaroni
55,000
10,000
10,000
Dermot Blain ie
Dermot Blain
46,000
-66,400
-66,400
Jan Collado de
Jan Collado
40,000
-35,600
-35,600
Tomer Berda us
Tomer Berda
40,000
6,300
6,300
Casey Kastle si
Casey Kastle
40,000
-32,500
-32,500
PokerStars

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Sunar Surinder's On The Turn

Surinder Sunar has seen his stack decimated after clashing with Vitalijs Zavorotnijs on a four-flushed board.

The player under the gun called off his last 1,400 chips and when the action folded around to Sunar in the cutoff, he made it 4,400 to play. Next to act was Zavorotnijs, who raised to 11,000, a bet that was eventually called by Mr Sunar.

Flop: {q-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}

Sunar checked, Zavorotnijs bet 12,500 and Sunar counted out enough to call the bet but didn't pull the trigger. After almost a minute he did shoot, and called the bet.

Turn: {10-Diamonds}

The turn brought a fourth diamond to the board but Sunar seemed to like this one. After riffling a pile of red chips, then switching to a pile of black chips, he counted out 12,300 and bet, leaving himself around 46,000 behind. Zavorotnijs tossed eight yellow chips totalling 40,000 into the middle and Sunar, quite remarkably, quickly folded.

Zavorotnijs: {q-Clubs}{q-Spades}
Micro-stacked UTG player: {a-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}

River: {k-Clubs}

The board failed to pair and the UTG player quadruples up to a not so healthy 5,200 stack, Sunar dropped to 46,200 but Zavorotnijs climbs to 150,000

Tags: Surinder SunarVitalijs Zavorotnijs

Marc of Cain

Marc Naalden's taken a bit of a hit doubling up a short stack in a 45,000 pot.

Naalden: {q-Hearts}{7-Hearts}
Shortie: {a-Clubs}{q-Clubs}

Board: an extremely exciting {8-Clubs}{8-Spades}{10-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{a-Spades}

Naalden was left with a shade under 60,000.

Tags: Marc Naalden

Blain of His Life

Dermot Blain is in some serious trouble now after the gentleman under the gun shoved and Blain called off a little over 15,000 of his stack. There was some brief joy for Blain, followed by some lasting sadness as his opponent made a set of eights and Blain found himself reduced to just 24,000.

Blain: {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs}
Mr. Under The Gun: {8-Spades}{8-Clubs}

Board: {a-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{3-Hearts}

Tags: Dermot Blain