2011 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
€275,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€4,000
Prize Pool
€1,071,600
Entries
282
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 282
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Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

More Eliminations

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Kevin Stani
Kevin Stani

The players continue to fall fast. Here's a list of latest to bust and it includes former EPT Champs Jens Kylollen, Rupert Elder and Kevin Stani:

Jens Kyllonen
Kimmo Tuominen
Mikko Pirinen
Jesus Cortes
Kayvan Payman
Ivan Kudriavtsev
Kevin Stani (pictured)
Rupert Elder (PokerStars qualifier)
David Anton Martinez
Robin Ylitalo
Cristian Raul Bumbu (PokerStars qualifier)
Khazret Nebezhev

They May Not Be Fish But They Do Have Chips

A quick sweep of the room reveals some quite drastic changes in stack sizes. Check them out.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Jani Sointula fi
Jani Sointula
135,200
11,250
11,250
Profile photo of Roberto Romanello gb
Roberto Romanello
97,000
13,825
13,825
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of David Sonelin se
David Sonelin
95,400
62,400
62,400
pokerstars
Profile photo of Irene Baroni it
Irene Baroni
88,300
8,300
8,300
Profile photo of Jeff Sarwer fi
Jeff Sarwer
84,200
19,900
19,900
Profile photo of Katri Kasper ee
Katri Kasper
74,000
700
700
Profile photo of Dario Minieri it
Dario Minieri
69,300
34,875
34,875
pokerstars
Profile photo of John O'Shea ie
John O'Shea
62,000
35,425
35,425
Profile photo of Sami Kelopuro fi
Sami Kelopuro
61,000
2,000
2,000
Profile photo of Praz Bansi gb
Praz Bansi
55,300
18,675
18,675
Profile photo of Richard Toth hu
Richard Toth
55,100
17,775
17,775
pokerstars
Profile photo of Cristiano Blanco it
Cristiano Blanco
51,000
12,950
12,950
Profile photo of Fernando Brito pt
Fernando Brito
45,000
2,750
2,750
Profile photo of Maksim Kolosov ru
Maksim Kolosov
44,000
18,000
18,000
Profile photo of Charles Clark gb
Charles Clark
43,000
Profile photo of Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
41,200
11,400
11,400
pokerstars
Profile photo of David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
37,600
19,900
19,900
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
33,800
13,600
13,600
Profile photo of Chris Brammer gb
Chris Brammer
32,800
2,350
2,350
Profile photo of Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
30,100
22,700
22,700
Profile photo of Arnaud Mattern fr
Arnaud Mattern
29,700
9,475
9,475
EPT 1X Winner
pokerstars
Profile photo of Johan van Til nl
Johan van Til
28,900
23,600
23,600
Profile photo of Sam El Sayed
Sam El Sayed
27,800
14,000
14,000
Profile photo of John Eames gb
John Eames
24,000
32,300
32,300
Profile photo of Marcin Horecki pl
Marcin Horecki
18,700
3,225
3,225
pokerstars

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Brammer is Back in Contention

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Chris Brammer just managed to double up through Rafael Gomes with just Ace high and this is how it happened.

Brammer opened up the action with a raise of 1,600 and Gomes made the call. Both players saw a tantalising flop of {10-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {q-Diamonds} and all hell broke loose. Firstly Brammer bet 2,800, then Gomes bet 8,000, then Brammer moved all-in for 36,000 and Gomes called. When the cards were overturned both players were on the draw.

Brammer{a-Diamonds} {k-Diamonds}
Gomes{k-Hearts} {j-Hearts}

Turn: {10-Spades}

River: {10-Diamonds}

Neither hit their hand and Brammers ace high was good enough to cripple Gomes.

Then in the next hand Brammer raised to 1,600 and Raigo Aasmaa defended his big blind. The action checked right down to the river on a board of {j-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {q-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} {a-Diamonds} when Brammer took the pot down with a bet of 3,000.

Brammer ~ 89,000

Tags: Chris BrammerRaigo AasmaaRafael Gomes

This is how to Reduce the Field

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

William Ross raised to 1,700 and Rafael Gomes moved all-in for his remaining 2,900. The action folded around to Raigo Aasmaa and he called. William Ross asked the dealer if he could raise and he was given the green light. Ross made it 6,000 to play and Aasmaa moved all-in and was promptly called by Ross. So we had three-way action with two players at risk of elimination and this is what they were holding:

Aasmaa{k-Diamonds} {k-Clubs}
Ross{a-Clubs} {a-Spades}
Gomes{j-Diamonds} {j-Spades}

So Ross was in great shape to triple up, Gomes was heading out of the door and Aasmaa was going to be left with chip dust.

Board: {4-Spades} {k-Spades} {7-Hearts} {10-Clubs} {6-Clubs}

That changed things! Gomes and the unlucky Ross both headed for the door and Aasmaa was left with 65,000 plastic things.

Tags: William RossRafael GomesRaigo Aasmaa

Mattern All-in

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Team PokerStars Pro was just all-in on the river against Kevin Green but got the push through.

We picked up the action on the turn where the board read {4-Hearts}{j-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}. Green checked from the big blind and the Frenchman bet 4,200. Green called to swell the pot to about 20,000 chips.

The river came {a-Diamonds} and and Green checked to face Mattern's 15,800 all-in. He wasted little time in folding.

Tags: Arnaud Mattern

Toth Buys Himself a Birthday Present

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Today is Team PokerStars Pro Richard Toth's birthday and although he does not look to have a cake or balloons he is shovelling in chips.

His latest haul started with him raising to 1,700 from late position and Imre Leibold making it 3,700 on the button. Both blinds folded and Toth made the call. The flop came down {8-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{A-Diamonds}, Toth checked, Leibold bet 5,000 and Toth called very quickly.

Toth checked the arrival of the {9-Hearts} on the turn and his opponent checked behind. The river saw the {A-Hearts} make an appearance and it was greeted with a 30,000 bet from Toth, more than enough to put his Estonian opponent all in. Leibold sat for 20 seconds before folding his hand, possibly slightly spoiling Toth's party.

Tags: Richard TothImre Leibold

Mattern Goes Bananas

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante
Fruity Mattern
Fruity Mattern

At the start of Day 1a and Day 1b the players were informed that they were not allowed to have any electrical devices on the table, but there are allowed to use them if they are on their lap or away from the table. However, the tournament director never mentioned whether fruit was permitted to be on the table and a dealer has just questioned that over on Table 3.

Table 3 is the home to French Team PokerStars pro Arnaud Mattern and he has in front of him two bananas. For some reason the dealer took offence at this and asked Mattern to remove them. Mattern was not happy about this at all and said "In my five years playing live nobody has ever had a problem," before demanding the dealer to "call the floor!"

One of the floor staff came to Table 3 and ruled that the fruit could stay, though Chuck Clark joked he could see a red light flashing from one of them!

"I don't think the tipping will be very high this year," said an upset Mattern.

Tags: Arnaud Mattern