| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
51,500 | |
|
50,000 | 20,000 |
|
41,000 | 11,000 |
|
41,000 | |
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40,000 | |
|
27,000 | |
|
19,000 | -11,000 |
|
14,000 | -16,000 |
When we walked up to the table, Team PokerStars Online's Andre Coimbra had 2,500 chips out in front of him, so we must have missed another player opening. In any event, a third player, Luca Falaschi looked down at 
in the big blind and shoved in. Coimbra made the call for his last 8,450 with 
, and the race was on.
The 
flop opened up another two outs for Coimbra to double, but the turn 
was a miss. He needed a ten, queen, or king to win the pot, and the river 
fit those criteria rather nicely. Coimbra is strolling down Broadway, back up to about 18,500.
Andrew Chen raised to 860, and Alessandro Speranza three-bet shoved for 6,975. Chen frowned and did the pot math, then splashed in the call for just a fraction of his stack. He was drawing live for the knockout.
Showdown
Chen: 
Speranza: 
The 
flop kept Speranza safe, but the turn 
shot Chen into the lead with one to come. Not to worry, Mr. Speranza. The dealer gave him the 
on the river, locking up the double and taking a little bite out of Chen's stack.
Sam Chartier got a pretty fair amount of chips into the middle preflop with 
, and that was not at all a good thing when Mark Walsh found 
to make the call.
Chartier caught lightning in a bottle on the 
flop, but he still had to sweat the kings and the clubs for his tournament life. The turn was a miss, but the river reimproved Walsh to the winner.
Chartier is out.
Narendra Banwari was at about 20,000 when he four-bet shoved all in from the big blind. The player who'd opened from the button eventually folded, but Sergio Castelluccio -- who'd three-bet preflop -- quickly called from the small blind with a slightly covering stack.
Showdown
Castelluccio:
Banwari: 
There was no help for Banwari on board, the dealer running out a 
board to seal his fate.
Our good friends over at the PokerStars blog, reported a hand where Marco Traniello won a massive 100,000-chip pot after flopping quads. Here's how the hand went.
Traniello opened to 1,100 from under the gun and Andrey Baturn reraised to 2,000. Andrea Finotti made the call and then Traniello called. The three players saw the flop come down 
action moved to Baturn. He bet 3,000 and Finotti called. Traniello also called.
The turn came and fireworks ensured. Traniello checked, Baturn bet 10,000 and Finotti raised all in and that was called by Traniello. Baturn also called.
Finotti turned over the for a flopped full house. Baturn held an overpair with the 
and Traniello held the for flopped quads.
The river blanked off and Traniello scooped the massive hand.
Group A is back from their meal, and the second half of the room is headed off for their break.
We've lost Jason Mercier during the course of the last half hour. Word on the street is he ran pocket eights into pocket nines for his whole stack, and he was unable to improve.
Mercier won this thing back in 2008 for €869,000, kickstarting the poker career of one of the most successful young players in the game. If the EPT is going to have it's first double Main Event winner this week in San Remo, it'll have to come from someone other than Mercier.
Alessio Isaia raised to 1,050 from the button and Xuan Liu three-bet to 2,600 out of the small blind. Isaia called and the flop came down . Liu bet 2,900 and Isaia called.
The turn was the 
and both players checked to see the land on the river. Both checked again.
Isaia tabled the 
and Liu mucked her hand.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
