Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn
Buy-in
€4,000
Prize Pool
€1,071,600
Entries
282
Level
25
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
Final Level Chip Counts
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As we leap into our final sixty minutes of pure poker pleasure here is a collection of chip counts for you.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
118,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
90,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
88,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
||
|
70,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
|
|
||
|
68,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
63,000 | |
|
60,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
|
54,000 | |
|
53,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
|
50,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
46,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
44,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
||
|
44,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
|
39,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
36,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
33,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
|
25,000
-33,000
|
-33,000 |
|
24,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
23,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
||
|
17,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
12,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
|
9,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
8,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
Need a Poker Break?
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Check out the torture museum here in Tallinn with Sarah Grant. There is some poker fashion advice at the end as well.
Smelly Raise?
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
John Eames added over 12,000 to his stack with a little raise on a flop that five players got to see and not one of them wanted to take him on.
The flop came down 
and current champion, Kevin Stani, took a stab with a 3,000 bet. Chris Brammer called but Eames made it 8,600 to go from the button. Surprisingly everyone folded very quickly. The British star is on just shy of 60,000 chips now.
Double Up for Sam El Sayed
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Carl Carlsson and Sam El Sayed have been verbal sparring partners all day long and so it was fitting that it was Sam El Sayed who called Carlsson's final all-in.
Both of them were desperately short but it was Sam El Sayed who will live to fight another day after eliminating Carlsson.
| Carlsson |   |
| El Sayed |   |
Board: 
Sayed ~ 24,000
Aasmaa Uses His One-Time
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Local player Raigo Aasmaa has just survived an all in encounter despite being up against the overpair of Nikolas Liakos. There was a flurry of activity that resulted in Aasmaa moving all in from the button for his last 17,600 and he was called by Liakos in the cutoff.
As Aasmaa saw that his 
was crushed by the 
of his opponent. "One time?" said Aasmaa sheepishly. And it worked as the flop came down 
followed by the 
turn and the 
river ti double up the Estonian.
Runarsson Pushes Minieri Around
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Dario Minieri has just been pushed off another pot this time it was Runar Runarsson who is the man helping himself to the Italian's chips.
On a board reading 
Runarsson checked, Minieri wasted no time at all in betting 4,200 but very quickly folded when Runarsson check-raised all in for around 20,000 chips. When you play as loose and aggressive as Minieri does then I suppose you get used to people putting you under the maximumm amount of pressure.
Minieri Pushes Back
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Dario Minieri wasn't going to finish a day at an EPT by being pushed around and he proved that over the course of two hands (out of three).
He was in the small blind and then the cut-off when there was a raise and a call in front of him. We're not saying the Italian had nothing when he put in three-bets but when there's so many chips out there already, we had our suspicions.
Alexei Veselov was the flat caller in both hands and he'll feel like he's being pushed around now as both times he had to give up his holding. All those free chips has helped Minieri up to 60,000 chips.
Brammer Makes Big Laydown?
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Chris Brammer has been put to the test on numerous occasions today, mostly from his fellow countryman John Eames. But just now it was Finland's Lari Sihvo that was asking him questions over on Table 3.
Brammer started things off with a raise to 1,100 from the hijack. The action folded to Sihvo in the big blind and he put in the extra chips to make the call. A flop reading 
was met with a check from Sihvo, a bet of 1,300 from Brammer and a quick call.
Another queen arrived on the turn, the and now instead of checking as he had done on the flop, Sihvo lead out for 3,100. Brammer was not going to let him buy this pot and he called. The dealer put out the out on the river and Sihvo quickly moved all in. Brammer removed his white headphones and asked for "a count please." The chips were counted out and Brammer was told it was 12,250 to call.
Calling and losing would mean Brammer would have dropped to 32,500, which would still be more than 60 big blinds, but Brammer continued to take his time in deciding what to do. A minute passed and he still had not acted. Thirty more seconds passed before Brammer did act, he folded.
Table Ten Action
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Jesus Lizano Cortes opened to 1,200 from the hi-jack and Team Pokerstars Pro Ville Wahlbeck three-bet from his position on the button. It was 1,900 more for the former EPT Barcelona runner-up who calmly removed his 1,200 and replaced it with a four-bet of 8,800. Wahlbeck with only 30,000 remaining decided to fold and get back to reading his book.
Mudassar Khan opened from early position with a raise of 1,300 and both Cortes and Wahlbeck called. The flop was 
and after two checks a 2,600 bet won the pot for Wahlbeck.
Jesus Cortes Lizano opened up to 1,200 from middle position and Krzysztof Rzeczykowski called on the button. A c-bet of 2,100 on a board of 
winning the pot for the Spaniard.
| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table 10 | 1 | Jesus Cortes Lizano | 58,000 |
| 3 | Ville Wahlbeck | 37,000 | |
| 8 | Mudassar Khan | 80,000 | |
| 9 | Natalia Nikitina | 48,000 |