2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
€930,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,786,950
Entries
987
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Manousos King of the Kastle

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Georgios Manousos
Georgios Manousos

Casey Kastle rasied to 20,000 in early position and Max Heinzelmann called in the hijack before former chip leader Georgios Manousos reraised to 56,500 in the cutoff. Kastle tanked for some minutes before pushing all in. Heinzelmann folded, but Manousos quietly pushed his stack across the line and they were on their backs.

Kastle: {a-Hearts}{k-Hearts}
Manousos: {j-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}

Board: {2-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{2-Spades}{4-Diamonds}

It took a while for the stacks to be assessed, but it was eventually found that Kastle covered Manousos who doubled to 480,000. Kastle was left with just 30,000 as they headed into the break.

Tags: Georgios ManousosCasey Kastle

Ramd-Out

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Victor Ramdin
Victor Ramdin

Victor Ramdin is out. We didn't catch the action but we suspect that it was preflop, Ramdin's {a-Hearts}{j-Spades} playing Nicolas Yunis' {a-Spades}{9-Diamonds}, and the nine on the {q-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{8-Spades} board was enough to put an end to Ramdin's EPT hopes.

Tags: Victor RamdinNicolas Yunis

Yunis Hits the Matti

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Aku Matti Joentausta and Nicolas Yunis got involved in a huge 800,000 pot getting all the money in preflop with {8-}{8-} and {a-Spades}{j-Diamonds}, a fact not lost on the nearby Victor Ramdin.

The board came out {6-Hearts}{6-Spades}{10-Spades}{A-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} and Yunis took the entire pot, boosting his stack to 800,000.

Tags: Nicolas Yunis

Trials and Tribulations of Teng

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Andrew Teng
Andrew Teng

Andrew Teng has had a very exciting end to this level.

First of all, he was all in with {a-Diamonds}{a-Clubs} against Germano Martucci's {a-Hearts}{a-Spades} but really had to sweat the board of {J-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{5-Clubs} and breathed a sigh of relief when the river was a black card.

A couple of hands level and Teng was tangling with another Italian on the river of a {5-Spades}{4-Hearts}{a-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{5-Hearts} board, the Englishman had bet 55,000 on the end only for Nicola Boldini to check-raise him to 121,000. Teng tanked eventually folding and Boldini fake-wiped the sweat off his brow and turned over {10-Clubs}{6-Diamonds} for a missed gutshot.

Teng has about 500,000 still.

Tags: Andrew Teng

Manousos Continues His Slide Down the Chip Counts

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Georgios Manousos started the day as our chip leader but it has all gone wrong. He now has 240,000 after losing another pot; this time to Max Heinzelmann.

There was a pre flop raising war and Manousos pulled a 112,500 four-bet out of the bag before Heinzelmann moved all-in forcing the Grecian to fold.

Heinzelmann ~ 460,000

Tags: Georgios ManousosMax Heinzelmann

Cada Stops the Benvenuto American Attack

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Joe Cada gets very lucky on the river
Joe Cada gets very lucky on the river

Gianluca Benvenuto is on a personal crusade to remove all of the Americans from his table. He eliminated Vanessa Selbst, crippled Carter Phillips and just came one card away from eliminating former world champion Joe Cada.

Cada raised to 14,000 on the button, the small blind called before Benvenuto squeezed out a three-bet from the big blind. We were unable to count the bet size before Cada moved all-in. Benvenuto asked for a quick count and then made the call.

Cada: {a-Spades} {j-Hearts}
Benvenuto: {a-Diamonds} {k-Hearts}

Benvenuto was on the verge of becoming our chip leader. He had his eyes closed and was muttering some words to himself.

Flop: {q-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {5-Clubs}

Turn: {6-Diamonds}

Benvenuto was still talking to himself but he opened his eyes. Cada pushed his chair back and began to stand up.

River: {j-Diamonds}

Cada sat back down while the dealer handed him 550,000 and Benvenuto got a consolatory pat on the back from a colleague - he now has 630,000

Tags: Joe CadaGianluca Benvenuto

Grieco Smoking

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Nicola Grieco was all in with {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts} against Andrey Zaichenko's {a-Diamonds}{k-Spades} and exploded with joy when the board ran out {4-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{q-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{a-Spades} to make him a flush. He doubled to 175,000 and Zaichenko was left with 260,000. "Cigarette cigarette," he told the table and started towards the door. He quickly came back when he realised that it was his big blind - but then went for a cigarette after all when he was issued with a penalty for excessive celebration.

Tags: Andrey ZaichenkoNicola Grieco