No Back-To-Back Final Tables at this Festival
KevinMacPhee Kevin MacPhee Bust. AA < Q7s in a 4 bet pot vs Jaka. #ontothenextone
August 20 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,247,700
Entries
1,082
Level
34
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Mercier Doubles and Gives a Little Back
Picking up the action on the 
flop, five players were involved including Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier. After the first two players checked, Mercier checked. The fourth player to act bet 2,000 and the player behind him folded. Action folded back to Mercier and he called.
The turn was the 
and Mercier checked again. His opponent fired 6,000 and Mercier took a few moments to think. Mercier had 14,850 left in his stack and moved them all into the middle with a check-shove. His opponent quickly called holding the 
. Mercier had him drawing dead, though, as he held the 
. The river completed the board with the 
and Mercier doubled up.
On the very next hand, Mercier was in the big blind. Philip Sternheimer raised from the hijack seat to 1,200 and Mercier made the call to see the 
flop. Mercier checked and Sternheimer bet 1,700. Mercier called.
After the 
landed on the turn, Mercier checked to his opponent. Sternheimer bet 4,100 and Mercier folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000 | |
|
36,000 | 6,000 |
Cailly Gets Stubborn, Loses a Few Chips
Lucille Cailly was in the small blind and the only caller to an early position raise from Sergio Grosso.
The flop fell 
and the EPT Grand Final runner-up check-called a 1,200 bet. The turn came 
and Grosso bet 3,000 when checked to again. Cailly looked a little confused but made the call regardless.
Both players checked the river and Cailly mucked upon seeing Gross's 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
42,000 | 1,000 |
High Rollers Hate to be Bluffed
Philipp Gruissem and Gianluca Benvenuto were tangling in a pot where they had reached the river of a 
board.
Benvenuto was fist to act from the cut-off and he bet all in for 32,000. This bet was significant as the pot had only swelled to 10,550.
Gruissem seemed pained and angry, and looked like he wanted to call. He turned to look at his Italian opponent who was doing a very good job at looking relaxed. Gruissem had 26,700 remaining and went from looking like he was going to call, to folding.
"You want to choose one?" asked Benvenuto.
"F##k, now I know you were bluffing," said the German. "I think you have ace-nine with the ace of spades."
He was wrong though as he chose the 
.
"F##K," he bellowed one more time.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
26,500 |
Smith Running Down
It looks like the the €50,000 Super High Roller got the most of Dan Smith and left him with no fuel for the Main Event. He hit another wall in last year's WSOP November niner Sam Holden.
Holden opened the hand with a 1,000 raise in the early position and was called by Smith on his immediate left. The two were the only ones to see the flop go 
. Holden continued for 1,200 and Smith called again.
The dealer opened 
on the turn and Holden went in with another 5,000 and Smith made the call. Holden maintained the aggression by going all-in for his remaining stack of 8,100 after the river went and again Smith called.
Holden opened 
for a two pair and Smith mucked his hand in disappointment, but the dealer made him show the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
16,000 | 7,000 |
|
10,600 | -22,100 |
Random Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,000 | -15,000 |
|
70,000 | 10,000 |
|
65,000 | 25,000 |
|
50,000 | 26,000 |
|
41,000 | -1,000 |
|
37,500 | 11,500 |
|
31,000 | |
|
30,000 | -5,000 |
|
28,000 | 19,000 |
|
25,000 | 10,000 |
|
20,000 | -7,000 |
|
18,000 | -1,500 |
|
16,000 | -7,000 |
|
15,500 | -12,500 |
|
|
13,000 | -29,000 |
|
12,500 | -7,000 |
To 'Ell and Back
jackellwood85 Jack Ellwood And bust, AJ<77, awful day at the office
August 20 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Keep Your Pants On
On the turn of an 
board, Jake Cody led out for 6,500 but both Todd Boghosian and Giuseppe Pantaleo both made the call to see the 
on the river.
Cody now checked and Boghosian bet 13,700, Pantaleo then moved all in for about 31,000. Cody didn't instantly fold and instead wanted to know how much Boghosian had left (which was about 12,000 or so). After a couple of minutes, he folded and the onus was back on Boghosian.
He took about six or seven more minutes and even had the clock called on him, debating that he would've folded this hand to everyone else at the table but Pantaleo.
Finally with about 10 seconds left on the clock he managed to fold. Pantaleo asked people to guess his hand, several came in but Cody was quickest to get it right as the Italian turned over 
for quads.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 | 20,000 |
|
|
40,000 | -10,000 |
Sahamies Hits 100K; Nacho No More
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
105,000 | 45,000 |
|
Busted |
Setien Triples Up Throught Rincon and Luft
The Spaniard Ruben Setien Herrera moved all-in from the small blind for 3,125 and was called by the Brazilian Antonio Luft as well as by another local Poli Rincon.
The flop went . Luft checked and Rincon shoved his stack of 21,500. Luft wasn't willing to risk that much and folded. This left Rincon with just Herrera in his way who already had all of his chips in the pot and therefore both opened their hands. Rincon had 
and Herrera showed 
.
The turn brought giving little hope for Rincon, but 
on the river wasn't what he was looking for and Herrera's queens brought him the triple up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
9,775 |