Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,786,950
Entries
987
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Dinner for Some
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Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Half the field are now heading off on their dinner break while the other half play out Level 6; they will swap in an hour.
Brunelli 5-Bets to Victory
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
An extended preflop raising war ultimately went Diego Brunelli's way and the PokerStars Team Online member is now back above his starting stack on 34,000. The action went as follows:
Michael Skender: made the opening raise (amount missed).
Brunelli: reraised to 2,000.
Skender: four-bet to 5,100 with 19,500 behind.
Brunelli: tanked for a while and then five-bet to 15,000.
Skender: removed his sunglasses, folded, and announced, "Nice."
Mattern of the Tide
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Arnaud Mattern's fortunes have been somewhat up and down since the start of the day. After finding his stack bisected in the first level, he found himself up to a well above average 45,000 - and then right back down to a below average 29,000.
First the up - Mattern opened with the classic raising hand 
and was reraised by a player whom he later described as a "nit". Mattern check-called 3,000 on the 
flop and then both players checked on the bricky turn. The 
river brought in Mattern's flush and he finally bet out 6,500 which his opponent called, and then mucked his hand.
But then came the down - Mattern lost what he would only describe as a coinflip, and is now back down to 29,000. He's now headed off to dinner, along with half the field.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (For Pistilli)
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
The flop was reading 
where Marco Pistilli had fired out 2,800 only for Rupert Elder to make it 7,200 with about 28,000 behind. Pistilli then reraised to 22,800 and Elder moved all-in for 35,000 in total, a shrug and a call from the Italian.
Pistilli: 
Elder: 
The 
turn and 
river were both bricks and Elder doubled his stack to about 70,000. Pistilli dropped to about 20,000.
Korver Kaught
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Pieter de Korver has dropped back down to 32,000 after getting into a button vs blind battle against Michael Gathy for a 30,000 pot.
"Ace queen?" said de Korver hopefully, tentatively revealing 
but he was slightly crestfallen when Gathy flipped 
and proceeded to flop the nuts and river a boat on the 
board. Gathy is up to 32,000.
A Kick in the Testuds
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Frenchman, cyclist and EPT regular Paul Testud has been knocked out of the tournament.
Try and Try Again
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Jack Ellwood has been trying to generate some much needed height on his chip stack in the last few minutes.
Attempt 1
Ellwood raised to 900 from the hijack and both blinds called. We saw a flop of 
and the action was checked to Ellwood who bet 1,550 and only the big blind called who was Mauro Piacentino. Both players checked the 
turn and the 
river. Piacentino won the pot with 
whilst Ellwood's 
did not.
Attempt 2
Ellwood raised to 900 from mid position. Alberto Musini was in the hi-jack and he three-bet making it 2,600 to play. Team Pokerstars Online Pro Shiyan Fang was in the cut-off and she four-bet to 5,525 forcing the people with the y chromosomes to fold their hands.
Attempt 3
Ellwood raised to - yes you've guessed it - 900 and Liviu Toderita called in the big blind. Ellwood got one street of value out of Toderita before the Romanian folded the turn on a board of 
. The one street cost Toderita 1,200.
Ellwood now has 33,000
No Cake For Jody
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Jake Cody is out after he raised with 
and got called by the button. The latter had apparently meant to raise to 1,100 but actually just called the bet. The flop was 
and the rest of Cody's chips went in but his opponent was holding 
...
No improvement for the former Deauville winner (though you'd argue that the Jake Cody of a year ago would have definitely made a full house) and he's now going for an early dinner.
Chip Counts from Those Not on Dinner Break
Most notably, 2009 champion Constant Rijkenberg is no longer with us.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
96,000
76,500
|
76,500 |
|
90,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
80,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
73,000 | |
|
70,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
|
65,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
62,000
-13,000
|
-13,000 |
|
||
|
50,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
||
|
|
46,000 | |
|
43,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
|
||
|
35,000 | |
|
34,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
31,000
21,500
|
21,500 |
|
30,500
-12,500
|
-12,500 |
|
29,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
29,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
28,300
1,800
|
1,800 |
|
26,500
-3,500
|
-3,500 |
|
25,500
-7,500
|
-7,500 |
|
22,500
-19,500
|
-19,500 |
|
20,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
18,500 | |
|
15,000
-34,000
|
-34,000 |
|
14,100
100
|
100 |
|
|
||
|
10,200
-15,800
|
-15,800 |