2011 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2011 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
€390,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€3,500
Prize Pool
€1,636,390
Entries
482
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Info - Day 5

Wow, What a Start For Maisto

Level 24 : 15,000/30,000, 3,000 ante

Italian Giacomo Maisto has had what can only be described as an amazing start to this final table and is the chip leader, despite starting as one of the shortest stacks!

He has managed to double up in consecutive hands, the first saw Kevin Vandersmissen min-raise to 60,000 from middle position and Maisto, next to act, clicked it back and made it 120,000 to play. The action folded back to Vandersmissen who wasted no time in moving all in and Maisto instantly called.

Maisto:{k-Spades}{k-Clubs}
Vandersmissen:{q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}

Board:{10-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{7-Hearts}

This boosted Maisto to 1,800,000 and dropped Vandersmissen to 3,180,000.

The very next hand Maisto opened the betting with a 73,000 raise, next to act was Vladimir Geshkenbein and he folded. Next to him was Philip Meulryzer and he made it 176,000 to play and when everyone folded back to Maisto he asked how many chip Meulyzer was playing then moved all in. Meulyzer quickly called and the Italian flipped over {a-Diamonds}{a-Spades} which were up against {k-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}

Meulyzer joked that he was "pretty good at these" possibly referring to his jacks versus kings hand on Day 4 but his luck ran out on this occasion as the board ran out {6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{4-Spades}.

Maisto now has 3,700,000 whilst Meulyzer is the short stack with around 500,000 in his stack

Tags: Giacomo MaistoKevin VandersmissenPhilip Meulyzer