Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Main Event
Day: 1b
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
Good Call by Eames
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Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
We joined the action a little late. The flop was 
and the big blind had checked to Rasmus Larsen who bet 1,600. John Eames and Stefano Servalli made the call and the big blind folded.
Turn: 
Larsen checked, Eames bet 2,500, Servalli called and Larsen folded.
River: 
Eames checked and Servalli bet 8,300. Eames thought his way through the preceding action and made the call.
Servalli: 
for the bluff.
Eames: 
for second pair and the winning hand.
Photos Round 2, Part 2
Proving for the benefit of the shoutbox that Ted Forrest really is here.
Photos Round 2, Part 1
Romanellism - Number One
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
I think it was Danafish who created the word "Romanellism" during the Welshman's charge towards the EPT title in Prague. Roberto Romanello is currently sharing the same oxygen as three EPT Main Event Winners over at his table right now. Sebastian Ruthenberg, Michael Tureniec and Romanello himself.
It was during a hand involving Ruthenberg that we heard the first Romanellism of the day. Ruthenberg raised to 650 in the cut-off and Luca Topazio three-bet to 1,725 from the button. The action folded around to Ruthenberg who said something to Topazio. Topazio gave Ruthenberg a puzzled look and Ruthenberg folded his hand. Romanello poked Topazio on the shoulder.
"Did you understand what he said?" Asked Romanello.
Romanello and Topazio then had a conversation in Italian.
"What did he say?" Ruthenberg asked Romanello.
"He asked me what is was that you said," said Romanello.
"And what did you say?" Ruthenberg asked.
"I told him you called him a donkey," said Romanello.
To say Ruthenberg's face was red was an understatement.
Busq Boy
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Luca Pagano opened to 900 preflop and was called by Erik van den Berg from the cutoff before Olivier Busquet made it 3,100 on the button. Pagano and van den Berg both made the call to see a flop of 
flop but when it was checked to Busquet, the French-Canadian bet 3,600 resulting in instant mucks from both opponents.
Quoc of Gold
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Quoc Trung Nguyen has doubled up after he apparently check-called all three streets of a 
board with 
against Desiderio Boncioli - the latter having aggresively played 
betting all streets and moving in on the river.
Nguyen up to 55,000
Vissful Thinking
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser is up to a whopping 132,000. The biggest hand he was involved in was an 85,000 pot with the chips going in preflop, Visser's 
playing his opponent's 
. There was an ace on the flop, but Visser's queens made a flush to put him up to 110,000. Since then he's been abusing his big stack status and is currently our overall chip leader.
Dinner Plans
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
For all those fortunate enough to have made it this far and still have chips, there will be a split dinner break at the end of this level. This means that in around 40 minutes half the field will take an hour for dinner while the other half plays Level 6, and then they will swap. All the lucky dealers, floor staff and media will get to experience the excitement of Level 6 twice.
Minieri Now Micro
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Dario Minieri became our latest casualty just before the break. The board read 
and Minieri was holding , which proved insufficient against his opponent's . The Team PokerStars Pro is now free to dine at leisure at whichever one of San Remo's fine restaurants he chooses.