2010 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
65
Prize
€400,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€4,000
Prize Pool
€1,596,000
Entries
420
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Where There's a Wilinofsky

Benjamin Wilinofsky raised to 800 under the gun, and a player in middle position called. Nikolay Evdakov came along from the big blind, and one person at the table joked that it was time to settle in for a thirty-minute hand. The flop fell {10-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}{5-Spades}, and Evdakov checked. Wilinofsky bet 1,700, and after the middle player folded, Evdakov called unusually quickly. The {j-Hearts} on the turn gave them more to think about. Evdakov checked, and Wilinofsky took several minutes to decide on a bet of 3,300. Evdakov took some more time to consider the sizing before giving up his hand, leaving himself with 9,350. Wilinofsky is up to 43,000.

Tags: Benjamin WilinofskyNikolay Evdakov

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Moschitta Swatted

One player opened to 750, and after a caller, Luca Moschitta moved all in on the button for around 12,000. The original raiser looked him up, and the flatter decided to fold. It was a standard race with Moschitta tournament life resting on his {8-Diamonds}{8-Spades}. But his opponent's {a-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} took a big lead on the {a-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{4-Hearts} flop. The {a-Hearts} turn didn't help, and after the {5-Hearts} river, Moschitta made his exit. Vadim Markushevski, who had been on Moschitta's right, is now back to being the only PokerStars Pro at the table.

Tags: Luca MoschittaVadim Markushevski

EEK It Out

With the close of registration, we can now tell you exactly how many EEKs that translates into for the lucky folks who make to the money and beyond here in Tallinn. This is how the prizes break down, in both Euros and EEKs, or Estonian Kroonis.

1) €400,000 / 6,258,640 EEK
2) €250,000 / 3,911,650 EEK
3) €160,000 / 2,503,456 EEK
4) €120,000 / 1,877,592 EEK
5) €80,000 / 1,251,728 EEK
6) €63,000 / 985,736 EEK
7) €47,000 / 735,390 EEK
8) €32,000 / 500,691 EEK
9-10) €25,000 / 391,165 EEK
11-12) €18,000 / 281,639 EEK
13-14) €14,000 / 219,052 EEK
15-16) €12,000 / 187,759 EEK
17-24) €10,000 / 156,466 EEK
25-32) €8,000 / 125,173 EEK
33-40) €7,200 / 112,656 EEK
41-48) €6,700 / 104,832 EEK
49-56) €6,350 / 99,356 EEK

The total prize pool is €1,596,000, or a much more impressive sounding 24,971,814 EEK. That, my friends, is a lot of Kroonis.

More-sson for Thorsson

Kristoffer Thorsson
Kristoffer Thorsson

We arrived just in time to see three players turn their cards over in a preflop all-in showdown.

Ferit Gabrielsson: {8-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}
Kristoffer Thorsson: {a-Diamonds}{a-Spades}
Paul Pires-Trigo: covering them both with {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs}

Board: {2-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{2-Spades}{4-Spades}

Thorsson's aces held up, and the 2009 Amsterdam Master Classics champion more than doubled to around 60,000. Gabrielsson busted out, and Pires-Trigo made a face as around half his stack was handed over to Thorsson.

Tags: Kristoffer Thorsson

Eames' Inception Doesn't Last Long

Eames get bumped out of his dream.
Eames get bumped out of his dream.

John Eames was facing a 10,100 all-in bet from Jose Obadia on the turn of a {4-Clubs} {2-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {8-Hearts} board.

The Spaniard said, "If you lose you're still in, yes?"

Eames replied laconically, "Yes, I'll have 950 chips back."

Eames then made a very reluctant call and Obadia showed {9-Hearts} {9-Diamonds}, Eames nodded flipping {7-Clubs} {7-Hearts} and the river was the {K-Hearts}.

Crippled, Eames was eliminated a few hands later.

Tags: John Eames

Puumalainen Pummeled

Miika Puumalainen and his massive blond dreadlocks will not be progressing any further in this tournament.

Puumalainen got his last in with pocket nines but smacked into the pocket kings of Vitalijs Zavorotnijs (imagine if both these gents' names were permissible in Scrabble!). Puumalainen failed to spike, and hit the rail well before dinner.

Tags: Miika Puumalainen

Where Did All the Women Go?

Fatima Moreira de Melo, one of two women left in the Main Event
Fatima Moreira de Melo, one of two women left in the Main Event

Clearly poker is not popular among the ladies of the Baltic. Yesterday, only three of the 181 players were female. All three, Annette Obrestad, Vanessa Selbst, and Nelli Nufer, were eliminated before the end of the day. Today, of the 239 entrants, exactly two are women. And both are Team PokerStars Pros. Katja Thater is currently on 40,000 while Fatima Moreira de Melo has slipped to 25,000. That means women made up 1.2 percent of the Main Event field and only one woman dared enter without a major poker sponsorship deal. Not very impressive, ladies.

High Stakes Poker

With 239 playing today added to the 181 playing yesterday, there is a total of 420 players playing in the first ever EPT Tallinn this year with first place paying a hefty €400,000.

Big Stack Watch

We strolled by Marc Naalden's table to find the bracelet-winning Dutchman in possession of a massive stack of yellow T5,000 chips. Always helpful, Naalden watched your blogger struggle to count them for only a moment before telling us it was a total of 83,000.

Woefully Mr. Naalden did not share with us the details of how he amassed such a stack, but as far as we can see it is good for almost the chip lead - only one Volodymyr Pilyavsky currently exceeds it, with 85,000.

Tags: Marc Naalden

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