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Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 2
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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The 278 returning players whittled themselves down to the money - 80 - in almost exactly the six 75-minute levels allotted them. It was as if Thomas Kremser could see into the future and pinpoint nearly precisely the minute when Gianni Giaroni would run big slick into Aces and exit in the unlucky bubble position, setting 80 players up for Day Three tomorrow.
Today was Daniel Negreanu's day - a smattering of Aces (which took down both Kings and Jacks) set him up as a challenger for the lead, and a spike with Tens threeway vs. Adam Jerney's Kings and [Removed:297]'s Fours sent him firmly into pole position. He overtook start of day leaders like Martin Hruby and Sergii Baranov and finished with 893,000, a good six figures above the next challengers. Antonio Buonanno also finished with a healthy 704,500 after an eleventh-hour double through and Jose Severino too is up near the top with 635,000.
Everyone returning tomorrow is guaranteed at least €8,000 for their participation in EPT Vienna, but for the majority of the players there's still plenty of play with the structure as it is and it will be all about jockeying for position as the potential for a super deep run arises.
We'll be back at 12pm as the Day Three cards return to the air.
After 16 hours and 30 minutes of exciting and exhilarating poker we came down to the snail pace of the hand for hand bubble action. The vultures flew around the tables waiting for the inevitable carcass to be thrown out into the throng. The unfortunate carcass in this case belonged to the Italian gentleman Gianni Giaroni. Giaroni had already cashed in no less than three EPT Main Events this year but unfortunately it was not going to be number four.
The guy everyone wanted to hug and kiss - except the Giaroni family was Pokerstars qualifier Riekus Hein Wijermars.
Wijemars raised UTG to 8,000 and Giaroni made a huge three-bet in the region of ~ 70,000 from the button. Wijemars announced all-in and Giaroni called. There was the usual long wait for all the hands to finish before the board was dealt and it held no luck for Giaroni.
Giaroni: 
Wijemars: 
Board: 
Media access to the Main Event is somewhat restricted now that we are hand for hand, but we managed to catch the river action, the board reading 
. Mihai Manole bet 50,000 and Jens Weigl thought about it for a long time - it was for most of his stack - before making the call. Manole turned over 
- and Weigl's 
couldn't cut the mustard. Manole took the pot, and Weigl was left with less than 20,000 - an unenviable position at this stage in the tournament.
"Actually it made me suspicious that you didn't put me all in," he told Manole; nevertheless he is left with less than five big blinds.
Actually, this hand went on so long it was officially the same hand in which we lost Kyriakides, but all the other tables were waiting quietly as a big think for Antonio Buonanno resulted in a double up...
The board: 
. Buonanno had bet out 65k and Bozo Bagaric had raised to 130k (with about that behind). Buonanno took at least three minutes to move his entire stack in, and Bagaric a fraction of the time to call with 
. He was in bad shape - Buonanno had for the second nut flush and he doubled up to a very healthy stack while Bagaric is in the chip danger zone now.
A big pot just ended in a manner which left Kyriakides Miltiadis shaking his head and out in 82nd place. It was the build-up which was the worst - at least five minutes of thinking by Team Pokerstars Pro Toni Judet on a board of 
. Kyriakides had bet all-in, 138k, into a pot which must have been close to that size already, and waited tensely while Judet thought, counted out the chips, rolled them around in his hand a while and finally called.
Kyriakides: for the flopped set, now a full house
Judet: 
for flopped top pair, now two pair
The river... ... 
. This provoked a half-hearted table slap from busto Kyriakides and some wincing round the table from players and spectators, as he doesn't even get a €8,000 mincash to soften the blow.
It's bubble time! We are about to have 80 happy people and one unhappy person.
The young and super talented Jeff Williams has just had a pre-bubble tangle with the slightly more mature and also super talented Peter Kamaras. Kamaras has had a good year winning over $150,000 and he is looking likely to add to that total if he keeps on making calls like the ones he has just made against Williams.
We catch the action slightly late - on the flop with a board of 
. Kamaras checks the action over to Williams who bets 19,000 and Kamaras calls. The turn is the 
and Kamaras again checks the action over to Williams and again Williams duly obliges and fires the second barrel of 29,300 and Kamaras calls. The river is 
and again Kamaras checks. The action is back to Williams and he can't bring himself to fire that third barrel and he checks also.
Kamaras:
Williams: 
Kamaras takes the pot down with his pocket pair of eights.
Williams ~ 173,000
Kamaras ~ 348,000
Georgios Kapalas just lost a prebubble pot to Luke Schwartz, who's kept hold of a stack which although never among the leaders (and usually below average by some way) has been at least steadily increasing. He may finish the day having grinded up to average if the last half hour of play pans out similarly...
Anyhow a raise to 8,500 from Balazs Csermely started off this pot; Kapalas threebet and Schwartz fourbet preflop out of the big blind. The 35k total eventually found a flat call from Kapalas and they saw a flop of 
. Both players checked, and on the 
turn Schwartz bet 25k. This too was called. The river was the and again both players opted to check, Schwartz showing down which was good. "I'm shoving most rivers," he admitted, but the King wasn't one of them.
