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Salvatore Erittu was all in with 
against David Vamplew's 
when we arrived; the board ran out 
and Erittu was gone.
"Gotta hold!" said Vamplew to the ceiling in a mixture of joy and relief.
"Run better," said tablemate Cole Robinson. The EPT London champion is up to around 230,000.
As we crept into the wee small hours of today Thomas Kremser had announced the last three hands of day 1b. We were standing next to Stefano Alberto Servalli and it was looking likely that he was going to be our chip leader. We all know that it didn't turn out that way but Servalli still bagged up 202,400.
We have just seen him being put to the test on the river and he folded on a board of 
to a 28,000 bet by his opponent. The pot wasn't a particularly heavy one but the fold has left Servalli with only 70,000 in front of him leaving everyone, including him, scratching their heads.
Casey Kastle is up to 95,000 after raising to 4,100 in early position and getting called by both Atanas Gueorguiev in the small blind and Massimiliano Forti in the big. A continuation bet of 10,000 from Kastle on the 
was enough to push the two callers off, though, and Kastle got the pot.
Gregory Genovese and Michael Tabarelli have just ganged up on Tom MacDonald, but the youngster from the Uk came out of the scrape in better shape than the two Italians.
It was a three way all-in.
Genovese: 
MacDonald:
Tabarelli: 
Board: 
The outcome was a quite incredible double up for Genovese who now has 35,000, Tabarelli was eliminated and MacDonald moved up to 125,000.
Vitaly Lunkin opened to 3,600 from UTG and got called in three spots including Tristan Clemencon and Cristian Petrullo before Marcello Boschetti reraised all-in from the big blind for 25,800. Lunkin then moved all-in behind him for 27,800 and everyone else folded, all tanking for a couple of minutes each.
Lunkin turned over to Boschetti's 
needing a king to save him. and the flop indeed came 
.
"Norrrrrrr! Asssss!" shouted Boschetti, "Asssser, assser, assser!"
The turn was the .
"Assssss!"
The 
came on the river, changing nothing and a dejected Boschetti was left to collect his things and head to the rail. Lunkin is up to 65,000.
Fabrizio Petrucciani had been set all-in for his last 15,000 or so by Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein on a 
board, the Italian debating before finally calling off his stack with , Greenstein flipped 
and survived on the turn and river.
Greenstein up to 85,000
We have already lost over one hundred players in the first two levels. It seems everywhere you look there is an all-in confrontation between Italians.
Alberto Musini now has 145,000 chips after surviving one of those confrontations against Leonardo Patacconi. We say surviving but he did have the pre flop nuts - pocket aces. Patacconi had ace-king and the board did provide the miracle combo he was looking for.
Nicolas Yunis made it a solid 3,900 to play from early position and there was a cold call before Matteo Grimaldi three-bet to 11,000 from the button. Yunis four-bet to 23,000 and the cold caller folded. Grimaldi was sat with 34,000 and he made the call and the move somewhat startled everyone including Yunis.
Flop: 
Yunis shrugged his shoulders and moved enough chips over the line to commit Grimaldi and everyone was expecting the call when he mucked.
Yes, he put 50% of his stack into the pot pre flop and folded to a c-bet on the flop.
Xuan Liu has just doubled up and eliminated Jean Claude [Removed:361] in the process. Pockets Kings doing the damage for Liu.
Liu ~ 125,000
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
