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Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Total Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 587
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Once again the temperature in the card room has dropped by 15 degrees as players head out on to the balcony to fill their lungs with "fresh air".
Back soon.
Team Pokerstars Pro Dario Minieri is a fighter there is no doubt about that. It is obvious he is not 100% as he coughs and splutters in between hands but even with a cold he won't take any messing about. He is like a little stick of dynamite.
We caught some action involving Minieri that demonstrates our point.
Minieri was in the Small Blind when his opponent on the button made a raise of 750. Minieri made the three-bet to 2,300 and his opponent made a four-bet to 4,750. Minieri asked his opponent how much he had behind and he duly moved his hands out of the way to allow the little Italian to have a look. After a quick glance Minieri announced all-in and his opponent folded.
Dario Minieri now has a cough, a cold and a chip stack of ~53,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo just talked her way into a river call with aplomb as Alessandro Meoni paid probably more out of curiosity than genuinely thinking he was ahead.
The board stood 
and de Melo had bet out 3,175. While Meoni stalled, she started up with guessing his hand.
"You have an Ace," she tried.
"No, with an Ace I would have called."
"King."
"No."
"Eights. Nines. Tens." She stopped calling hands for a moment before switching to her own.
"King King - I have a full house. Or Ace-Ace. AA or KK - I'm a woman. I read Marie Claire." True, she does have Marie Claire open at the table.
He made the call and she showed 
to take the pot.
In a good way though - he just doubled through to around 30k with 
on a 
board. He had to wait a good while, however, for his 10k bet on the river to be paid off - but wait patiently he did and eventually he got the call, the muck and the payoff.
Meanwhile all the chips on the table seem to have gravitated to Daniel Drescher (pictured)- he's now over 120,000 and probably our chip leader in the second half of Level 4.
It's not been a terribly good day for the French so far. After ElkY's demise early in the day, we have now also lost his fellow Frenchie Ludovic Lacay.
We understand that Lacay's demise came after a three-way all in showdown on a 
flop. Lacay held 
for an up and down straight draw, and he was up against one player's pocket aces and another's set of nines. Lacay could not get lucky, and the EPT Warsaw finalist hit the rail.
We found David Benyamine betting 3,000 on an 
flop and getting one call behind. The other two players who had made it to the flop both folded, leaving Benaymine and his opponent to go heads up to the turn.
Both players checked the 
turn and Benyamine checked again on the 
river before finding himself facing a 5,025 bet from his opponent. Benyamine, with just 11,500 or so left to his name, spent a while stacking and restacking his chips, eventually stacking them all into one single stack which made it look as though he might go all in - but instead he flat called, and then promptly mucked to his opponent's 
.
Benyamine is now in trouble with just 6,500.
Tournament veterans Rob Hollink and Paul Testud just ran into one another with results which had their entire table murmuring. Unfortunately I missed the earlier rounds of betting, but have to conclude from the fact that stacks weren't over lines that there had been at least one or two streets checked.
Either way the pot couldn't have been more than 10k with the board standing 
. Hollink had bet 5k and Testud was considering this, taking his time before calling.
Hollink showed , his set ahead of Testud's 
!
A few photos for you to enjoy while you eat your tea!
