2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione

Main Event
Day: 3
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

Four Years to Find Fold

Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Some days as a tournament reporter can be frustrating as so much time is wasted waiting for players to make decisions. I'm not mentioning any countries by name but nationalities are famed for taking an age.

Two Italian players were involved in a large pot, all pre-flop, where everyone around knew a fold was coming but the theatrics had to be played out like we were watching an old Italian Opera. Just like an Opera, I had no idea what was being said.

Piero Schiavulli opened to 10,500 before Stefano Demontis three-bet to 25,000 from the button. Schiavulli came back with a four-bet to 43,500 but Demontis wasn't finished and shoved for 200,500.

It took the dealer several minutes to count this amount as Demontis' stack was awkwardly stacked. Schiavulli had this time to think and then took several more minutes to make a decision. His table mates were getting frustrated and the TD picked up on this and put the clock on Schiavulli. This prompted him to open fold {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts} and he was shown {k-Clubs}{10-Clubs} by his fellow countryman.

The two players then stepped away from the table and continued to argue about the hand for another minute or two.

Tags: Piero SchiavulliStefano Demontis