2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
€640,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,764,500
Entries
570
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Minieri Cashes In Precious Metaal

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Dario Minieri
Dario Minieri

The action folded to the Italian Team PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri in the hijack seat and opened the betting to 450. Irene Baroni was in the cutoff and she flat-called. To her immediate left was the Dutchman Govert Metaal and he spoiled the party by putting in a three-bet to 1,650. Both blinds folded then Minieri four-bet to 3,600 forcing a fold from Baroni. It then looked like Metaal shoved because there was a flurry of activity and Minieri's stack was in the middle.

Metaal: {J-Diamonds}{8-Spades}
Minieri: {A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs}

The board ran out {K-Hearts}{J-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} and Minieri doubled to 25,150

Tags: Dario MinieriGovert Metaal

Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Mattias De Meulder
Mattias De Meulder
60,000 30,000
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
50,500 4,500
Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
41,000 11,000
Salvatore Bonavena it
Salvatore Bonavena
34,000 4,000
Melanie Weisner us
Melanie Weisner
33,000 3,000
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
33,000 3,000
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
31,000 1,000
Michael Eiler de
Michael Eiler
EPT 1X Winner
31,000 1,000
Michael Tureniec se
Michael Tureniec
EPT 1X Winner
29,500 -500
Nicolo Calia it
Nicolo Calia
29,000 -1,000
Rupert Elder
Rupert Elder
27,000 -3,000
Fabrice Soulier fr
Fabrice Soulier
27,000 -3,000
Olivier Busquet us
Olivier Busquet
26,000 -4,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo nl
Fatima Moreira de Melo
26,000 -4,000
Benny Spindler de
Benny Spindler
26,000 -4,000
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
25,000 -5,000
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
EPT 1X Winner
24,000 -6,000
Steven van Zadelhoff nl
Steven van Zadelhoff
18,700 -1,300
Vladmir Geshkenbein ru
Vladmir Geshkenbein
EPT 1X Winner
16,000 -14,000
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
14,000 -16,000
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
Busted

Another EPT, Another Day, Another Boujenah Outburst

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Ilan Boujenah
Ilan Boujenah

Poker "back in the day" had a lot more characters than poker today. Pistols and cigars have been replaced by headphones and iPads. This is mostly for the good of the game but it is refreshing, if a little controversial, when a player has a big outburst on the tournament floor.

Ilan Boujenah is undoubtedly one of the characters of the EPT and has had three or four such outbursts this season, and we've just witnessed another. We only caught the back end of it, but Boujenah came into the press room afterwards to argue his point. The main gist of what happened was:

Boujenah led for around 3,200 on a two-club flop and was raised to 6,500 by an opponent. Boujenah pulled back his betting chips and threw in two 5k chips and announced raise a second later. Konstantin Puchkov, who wasn't in the hand, got involved and said it should be a call. Two rulings were called for and it was deemed a call, not a raise as Boujenah had intended it to be.

The turn brought a third club and Boujenah's opponent led out. This prompted Boujenah to fold and jump out of his chair to tell the Russian where to go and that he should not get involved in the hand. He also shouted the quote of the season for me with: "I was doing the bluff of the year!"

The behaviour was direct and aggressive so the TD gave him half an orbit's penalty, increased to one orbit when his reaction escalated.

Boujenah understood why he was given the penalty and was glad of it as he was on tilt and needed time to calm down. He still thinks he was right and that the powers that be are against him this season. We look forward, (sort of) to the next episode.

Tags: Ilan Boujenah

Fish and Chips

Here is a selection of chip counts from around the very busy tournament area.

Player Chips Progress
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
62,400 32,400
Kevin MacPhee us
Kevin MacPhee
EPT 1X Winner
40,000 10,000
Dag Palovic sk
Dag Palovic
33,000 3,000
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
30,100 100
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
29,700 -300
Ronny Kaiser ch
Ronny Kaiser
28,900
Toby Lewis gb
Toby Lewis
EPT 1X Winner
28,600 -1,400
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
26,200 -3,800
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
25,300 -4,700
Mathew Frankland gb
Mathew Frankland
22,250 -7,750
Martin Staszko cz
Martin Staszko
18,800 -11,200
Andy Frankenberger us
Andy Frankenberger
10,625
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
8,100 -21,900

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Vamplew vs Eiler

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

David Vamplew opened to 450 preflop and fellow former EPT champion Michael Eiler made the call. David Cinotti then made it 1,550 from the small blind and Leonardo Cucchiarini called from the big blind. Vamplew then four-bet to 4,850 but the surprise move came from Eiler with a five-bet to 11,825. The blinds both folded and Vamplew thought for two minutes before moving all in, Eiler visibly recoiled in his seat and thought for a moment but then sighed and called.

Vamplew: {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}
Eiler: {A-Spades}{K-Spades}

The board came {A-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{8-Hearts} and they split the pot.

Tags: David VamplewMichael Eiler

Double Dutch

Lex Veldhuis
Lex Veldhuis

Lex Veldhuis had fired 850 on a {10-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{5-Spades} board before Steven van Zadelhoff made it 2,600 to go, Veldhuis was the only caller to see the {8-Spades} on the turn that both players checked.

The river was the {A-Hearts} and Veldhuis made an overbet of 8,400 which put his compatriot in the tank. After about five minutes van Zadelhoff said, "Maybe [I'll] flip a coin or something...?"

He pulled out a 20cent Euro coin and said, "If it's heads, I call."

He flipped the coin, it was heads and out came the call. Veldhuis showed {A-Spades}{10-Hearts} for top two pair and won the pot - for good measure van Zadelhoff threw him the coin as well.

Player Chips Progress
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
46,000 16,000
Steven van Zadelhoff nl
Steven van Zadelhoff
20,000 -10,000

Tags: Lex VeldhuisSteven van Zadelhoff