2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
€942,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,984,900
Entries
1,230
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000
Players Left 1 / 1,230
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No Help For Helppi

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

John Helppi raised to 500 from early position and found a three-bet to 1,500 from an opponent on the button. Action came back to Helppi four-bet the action to 4,500 and his opponent called.

The flop brought down {6-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{8-Hearts} and Helppi moved out a continuation bet of 4,000. His opponent called to see the {3-Spades} hit the turn. Helppi slowed down with a check which led his opponent to fire 5,000. Helppi released a heavy sigh and tossing his hand away. This hit drops Helppi's stack down to about 12,000.

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Juha Helppi
12,000
18,000
18,000

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Liv’s Salad Soul Read

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Just back from the players break and 20 minutes obviously wasn’t quite enough for PokerStars pro Liv Boeree. She was still tucking in to the last of her big bowl of healthy salad and deep in a hand with Hui-Chen Kuo, a PokerStars qualifier from China. Boeree was in the small blind and checked the final board of {3-Diamonds}{a-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}. Kuo hesitated and bet 2,800. Boeree sytared her down. Did Kuo have the ace? She decided no and made the call. Kuo had {j-Clubs}{8-Clubs} no good against the {10-Diamonds}{10-Spades} of Boeree.

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

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Ilari and the Qualifiers

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Finnish PokerStars player Ilari Sahamies doesn’t look like a man to be messed with. He raised from early position to 425 and got 3 callers, all PokerStars qualifiers, Grzegorz Wyraz, Bastian Winde Harbo in the small blind and Siddharth Jain in the big blind. A flop of {a-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} was alomost as scary as the Finn and when it was checked to him a bet of 1,150 convinced the qualifiers to fold. Next hand Sahamies was under the gun and bet 425. Everyone got out of the way.

Top Pair For Baumann

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Our Live Reporting team arrived in time to see Gaelle Baumann and Andrey Andreev take a flop together. The dealer rapped the table and spread {J-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{A-Hearts} onto the felt. Baumann came out swinging for 700 and Andreev stuck around.

The turn brought down the {10-Diamonds} and Baumann fired once again, this time for 1,300. Andreev snapped the bet off and the {4-Hearts} hit the river. Both players checked and Andreev mucked his cards after Baumann showed {A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} for top pair. Baumann raked in the pot and boosted her stack to 36,500.

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Gaelle Baumann
36,500
6,500
6,500
Winamax

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Action Andrew and Delightful Daniel

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante
Andrew Moreno and Daniel Negreanu
Andrew Moreno and Daniel Negreanu

Andrew Moreno, the better half of PokerNews' very own Kristy Arnett, is seated to the direct right of Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu at a table that also includes Sofia Lovgren. Moreno has been involved a bit early, both in the action at the table and with the chatter between he and Negreanu. Topics of conversation have been poker, Choice Center, Instagram, LeBron James, cell phones, and much more.

On the first of many hands, Kresz Peter opened to 350 in the seat to the right of Moreno, before Moreno three-bet to 900. Peter called, and the flop came down {J-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{5-Hearts}. After Peter checked, Moreno bet 1,000. Peter folded.

Several hands later, Moreno was in the big blind, Peter in the small blind, and David Breitfuss had the button. Action folded to Breitfuss, and he opened with a raise to 300. Peter called, then Moreno three-bet to 1,050. Breitfuss folded, but Peter came along to see the flop, which produced the {9-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{4-Hearts}. Peter then check-called a bet of 850 from Moreno.

The turn was the {5-Hearts}, and both players checked to see the {K-Hearts} land on the river. Both checked again. Peter showed the {A-Spades}{2-Spades}, but Moreno's {A-Diamonds}{J-Spades} had the better kicker, and he won the pot.

On the very next hand, Peter raised to 300 on the button, Moreno called from the small blind, and Negreanu called from the big blind. All three players in action then checked the {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}{7-Spades} flop before the {J-Spades} was added to the board on the turn. Moreno led with a bet of 425, Negreanu folded, but Peter called. After the {A-Hearts} completed the board on the river, Moreno check-folded to Peter's bet of 525.

The next hand, Moreno had the button, and Negreanu proclaimed to the table that he was "going to three-bet more often than not on this hand." Action then folded to Peter in the cutoff seat, and he opened to 300. Negreanu got excited, as things were lining up for him to stay true to his word, but then Moreno got in the way with a three-bet of his own and made it 825 to go. Negreanu looked at his hand, then told the table he definitely would have three-bet if Moreno hadn't, pointing to his right. A player at the table suggested Negreanu could have four-bet after he folded, but Negreanu explained that he doesn't four-bet, or five-bet, or six-bet, and that "all those kids that used to do that are broke." The table got a good laugh.

Back to the hand, though. Peter made the call to see the {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs}{4-Clubs} flop. Both checked, and the turn was the {7-Hearts}. Both checked again, then the river was the {3-Clubs}. Peter led for 1,100, and Moreno made the call.

Peter had rivered a flush with the {A-Clubs}{10-Clubs}, and Moreno mucked his hand.

"Oh man! You would've smashed me there! I had king-eight!" exclaimed Negreanu.

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Andrew Moreno
38,700
8,700
8,700
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Daniel Negreanu
18,500
8,500
8,500
Poker Hall of Famer
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