2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€10,000 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
€270,229
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€1,087,800
Entries
111
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

Mercier Bests Kagawa

Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier bet 2,200 on the {A-Spades}{5-Hearts}{5-Clubs} flop into his opponent, Masa Kagawa. After some thought, Kagawa raised to 6,200. Mercier called.

The turn was the {Q-Spades} and both players checked. They also checked after the {2-Diamonds} landed on the river.

Kagawa opened up his hand to show the {Q-Diamonds}{J-Hearts} for two pair, queens and fives. Mercier held the {A-Clubs}{8-Hearts} for a better two pair, aces and fives, to scoop in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Jason Mercier us
Jason Mercier
75,000
26,900
26,900
Masa Kagawa
Masa Kagawa
71,000
-35,100
-35,100

Tags: Jason MercierMasa Kagawa

Wilf Doubles Through Thorel

Saar Wilf shoved all in for 19,600 from middle position and Jean Noel Thorel called on the button. Everyone else folded, leaving Wilf's {5-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} with a steep hill to climb against Thorel's {Q-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}.

The flop, turn and river ran out {8-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{6-Spades} and Wilf made a straight to crack Thorel's queens.

Player Chips Progress
Jean-Noel Thorel fr
Jean-Noel Thorel
153,000
3,000
3,000
Saar Wilf il
Saar Wilf
42,600
-39,600
-39,600

Tags: Jean Noel ThorelSaar Wilf

Dead Flowers

Randal Flowers was crippled when his hand got beat by Reza Mostafavi's {6-Spades}{4-Clubs} on a {4-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{7-Clubs}{A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs} board, though we're not exactly sure when the money went in.

The rest of his chips went in preflop with {Q-Spades}{7-Diamonds} and he was called by Kristijonas Andrulis and Alexander Roumeliotis. The Lithuanian pushed the Swede out of the pot on the turn of the {8-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{10-Clubs} board with {A-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} and Flowers couldn't hit any of his outs on the {J-Diamonds} river.

Player Chips Progress
Randal Flowers us
Randal Flowers
Busted

Tags: Randal Flowers

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov
166,000
14,400
14,400
JC Alvarado mx
JC Alvarado
160,000
-24,000
-24,000
Andrey Gulyy ru
Andrey Gulyy
150,000
38,500
38,500
Alex Bilokur ru
Alex Bilokur
136,000
4,000
4,000
Dimitri Holdeew de
Dimitri Holdeew
122,000
122,000
122,000
Rui Cao fr
Rui Cao
104,000
14,000
14,000
Laurent Polito fr
Laurent Polito
94,000
-14,200
-14,200
Jani Sointula fi
Jani Sointula
90,000
-28,000
-28,000
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
84,000
20,700
20,700
Timo Pfutzenreuter
Timo Pfutzenreuter
72,000
52,000
52,000
Ronny Kaiser ch
Ronny Kaiser
47,000
22,000
22,000
Andrey Pateychuk ru
Andrey Pateychuk
35,000
35,000
35,000
EPT 1X Winner
Dorin Rauta ro
Dorin Rauta
32,000
-26,900
-26,900

Sointula Shoves On Melkonyan

From under the gun, Jani Sointula raised to 2,500. The player in the cutoff seat called and then Gurgen Melkonyan reraised from the small blind to 10,000. Sointula reraised to 18,000 and the cutoff seat folded. Melkonyan made the call, though.

The flop came down {Q-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} and Melkonyan checked. Sointula fired 10,000 and Melkonyan tanked for a couple of minutes before calling.

The turn was the {5-Diamonds} and Melkonyan checked again. Sointula moved all in and Melkonyan folded after some brief thought.

Player Chips Progress
Jani Sointula fi
Jani Sointula
135,000
45,000
45,000
Gurgen Melkonyan ru
Gurgen Melkonyan
29,500
-74,800
-74,800

Tags: Jani SointulaGurgen Melkonyan

Level: 8

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200