Team Pokerstars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo has been eliminated after hanging on to a short stack for a good part of this level. Her excellent start of Day One performance ended up sending her into today with an average stack, but the cards didn't go her way and most recently she was seen moving in preflop repeatedly, surviving one button shove with two mystery cards which Daniel Negreanu was flashed as they headed muckwards (he said, "They're good"). Her final hand, , wasn't good, though - she was all in preflop racing and the board ran out leaving her to say her goodbyes and cheerfully head for the rail.
With the demise of Team Pokerstar Sportstar Fatima Moreira De Melo that leaves Boris Becker flying the flag for the Sportstar fraternity. How is he doing? Well not bad actually. He is currently sat in seat 7 over at table 11 with a stack of ~105,800. Notable opponents on his table are Luke Schwartz sat in seat one with ~ 105,000 and Manuel Bevand who has already cashed in three EPT Main Events this year - he is sat in seat 6 with a stack of ~209,300.
The structure of the EPT Main Events is now such that if a couple of above average stacks land on the same table, the potential for multiple raises without stack committal is being seen in action all over the place. Jeff Williams, with a 4th place stack of over 400k at the moment, seems to be involved every time we pass his table, but he might have made one (or two) threebet too many. The last one seen was to 21k, over the top of Moshe Vaizman who'd raised to 7,200 preflop. Vaizman calmly counted out over 45k (from his remaining 120ish) in various denominations and slid the tower over the line; as soon as it counted as a valid bet Williams threw his hand into the muck.
On the table next door the same bet, pretty much, was seeing off Kirill Zapletin - Stefan Horwath had fourbet half his stack and didn't look budgeable. The rather frustrated looking Zapletin threw his cards away too.
If you were a preschooler and you were asked on Day 1 to draw a picture of the Jerney family, you would draw one big Jerney (that would be dad Adam), one slightly smaller one (mum Kati) and two even smaller Jerneys representing sons David and John. And if you were particularly eager to impress your teacher (and also possessed of unusual artistic talent for a preschooler) you might also draw them all around a poker table in Vienna, competing in this year's EPT.
Yes indeed, all four Jerneys started this tournament - but with mixed results. Kati Jerney, who finished 15th at EPT San Remo in 2009, crashed out on Day 1 and was soon followed by son John whose best live result so far was a 12th place finish at the 2006 Grand Prix de Paris. Other son David made Day 2 but busted a level or two back, meaning that dad Adam - fittingly the biggest figure on our preschool art project - is now the only member of the family continuing the Jerney journey into the latter stages of the tournament. He is right now on an almost exactly average 160,000, so there is hope yet that the Jerney family will turn a profit on this tournament.
We're down to 99 players at the Pokerstars.net EPT Vienna, and will in all likelihood reach the money positions tonight during the next two hours scheduled to play.
The unfortunate 100th place was Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman whose stack had dwindled from its high point yesterday (he was briefly amongst the chip leaders mid day) and left him with 45k and ready to move in preflop with . Button Dominique Papesch reraised all in over the top, and after one of those more-frequent-than-you'd-expec t small blind timewastes he saw that was likely to be his eliminator. He pushed forward the Queen a little bit and waited as the dealer brought the nut flush for his opponent and knocked the veteran tournament player out.
Interesting side note - Boatman said that it could have been curtains for him a lot earlier if he hadn't made a huge laydown on that board with a pair of eights on it - he passed the under house with sixes and avoided the quads that busted his neighbour. But it was all for nought, in this event at least.
He could always jump in the €2k side event like de Melo has.
Antonio Buonanno raised under the gun and Jeff Williams called on the button - but [Removed:310] shoved from the small blind and Buonanno then re-raised, and following a swift fold from Williams they were at showdown.
Buonanno:
Wenigwieser:
Board: a no-messing
Wenigwieser took his leave, and the Italian stallion galloped his way up to 260,000.
Our preschool art project has ended a mere minutes after Dana told you all about it. Poker is like that as you know - here one minute and gone the next. Well at least Adam Jerney went out against one of the worlds biggest stars and that particular star had to get very lucky to beat the old Dad! For every downside there is an upside and this upside belongs to Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu seems to have shaken off his jet-lag from yesterday and does not seem to be able to stop amassing chips.
Jerney opened from middle position for 7,500 and Negreanu called in the Small Blind. [Removed:310] was waiting in the wings with ~50,000 and he duly shoved from the Big Blind. Jerney declared call and put a pile of yellow chips into the middle that surpassed the 50,000 of Wenigwieser. Neagreanu pointed out that he had just called and the dealer returned some of Jerney's chips. He didn't hold on to them for long when Negreanu announced he was all-in and Jerney instantly called. Negreanu had Jerney covered but Jerney still had between ~150,000 and 200,000 chips.
Jerney:
Negreanu:
Wenigwieser:
Jerney looked certain to double up and it looked even more likely after the flop and turn . Only two tens in the deck could help Negreanu and one of them decided to show up and send Jerney home when the hit the board.
Former Biggest Stack In The Room Jose Severino has taken a hit, his failing to spike against Victorino Torres' , the board coming down . Torres doubled to a healthy 240,000, while amused tablemate Ramin Hajiyev gasped, "How much? You had 20,000 like half an hour ago."
Don't feel too sorry for Severino, though - with 570,000, he's still one of our bigger stacks right now.
It has been a sterling effort from the Team Pokerstars Sportstars but Boris Becker has just been eliminated. It came at the hands of Georgios Kapalas and was your usual run of the mill flip with Kapalas pocket fives beating Beckers Ace-King in a pre flop all-in showdown.
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, wasn't good, though - she was all in preflop racing 
and the board ran out 
leaving her to say her goodbyes and cheerfully head for the rail.
. Button Dominique Papesch reraised all in over the top, and after one of those more-frequent-than-you'd-expec t small blind timewastes he saw that 
was likely to be his eliminator. He pushed forward the Queen a little bit and waited as the dealer brought the nut flush for his opponent and knocked the veteran tournament player out.
. Torres doubled to a healthy 240,000, while amused tablemate Ramin Hajiyev gasped, "How much? You had 20,000 like half an hour ago."