2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

€50,000 Super High Roller
Day: 1
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Event Info

2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♣5♥
Prize
€771,300
Event Info
Buy-in
€48,500
Entries
51
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
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Ladouceur Shoves

[user252447]
[user252447]
Level 5 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Erik Seidel opened for 6,000 and was called by Marc-Andre Ladouceur. Jean-Noel Thorel, on the button, three bet to 18,000. Seidel called and back on Ladouceur, he moved all in. Thorel was out of his seat, “How much?” he asked. It was 87,000 total. Thorel seemed to be considering it. Maybe it was the fact that Seidel was still to act that made him make the fold, but Seidel too folded and Ladouceur survived, cards unseen.

Trip Aces for Stern

donpeters
donpeters
Level 5 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Faced with a bet of 23,000 on the {A-Spades}{A-Hearts}{K-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds} board from EPT Season 8 Prague champion Martin Finger, Dani Stern made the call to see the {8-Spades} land on the river. Finger opted for a check, and Stern checked behind. Finger showed the {5-Spades}{5-Clubs}, but lost to Stern's {A-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} for trip aces. Stern won the pot and climbed back over 400,000 in chips. Finger dropped below 200,000.

Player Chips Progress
Dani Stern us
Dani Stern 		423,000 -7,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
192,000 -42,000

Tags: Dani SternMartin Finger

Level: 5

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 300

Full Chip Counts at the Break

Chad Holloway
Chad Holloway
Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Player Chips Progress
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
Poker Hall of Famer
PokerStars
500,000 40,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy 		465,700 -4,300
David Benefield us
David Benefield 		455,000 215,000
Dani Stern us
Dani Stern 		430,000 -10,000
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
397,300 117,300
Fabian Quoss de
Fabian Quoss 		378,000 153,000
Steven Silverman us
Steven Silverman 		360,000 20,000
Jean-Noel Thorel fr
Jean-Noel Thorel 		340,000 90,000
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
EPT 1X Winner
320,000 -20,000
Joni Joukimainen
Joni Joukimainen
310,100 35,100
Frederik Jensen dk
Frederik Jensen
EPT 1X Winner
300,000 45,000
Max Lehmanski de
Max Lehmanski 		283,300 -26,700
Andrew Lichtenberger us
Andrew Lichtenberger 		280,500 -12,500
Erik Seidel us
Erik Seidel
Poker Hall of Famer
280,000 10,000
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin 		278,800 -16,200
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith 		269,200 -800
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi 		264,300 44,300
Richard Yong my
Richard Yong 		260,100 -114,900
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson 		260,000
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov 		248,000
Tobias Reinkemeier de
Tobias Reinkemeier 		245,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
PokerStars
240,000 -10,000
Ole Schemion de
Ole Schemion 		240,000 -75,000
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier fr
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
EPT 1X Winner
PokerStars
235,000 130,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
234,000 44,000

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Thorel Grabs Some Chips before the Break

[user252447]
[user252447]
Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Erik Seidel was under the gun and seemed to be contemplating a bet. A moment passeed and the dealer reminded him that the action is on him. Giving a sheepish smile, Seidel released his cards.

When it got to Jean-Noel Thorel he opened the pot to 6,000 and Daniel Alaei, sitting to his left, called. The Blinds folded and the flop fell {a-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}. Thorel continued for 16,000 and was called by Alaei. Thorel bet out again, for 30,000 on a turn card {6-Diamonds}. That was enough for Alaei and he releases his hand.

Sternheimer the First to Fall

Chad Holloway
Chad Holloway
Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Philip Sternheimer
Philip Sternheimer

We missed the exact amounts, but we do know a preflop raising war saw Philip Sternheimer shove all in from the button and Max Lehmanski made the call from the big blind.

Lehmanski: {a-Diamonds}{q-Spades}
Sternheimer: {8-Hearts}{7-Clubs}

Sternheimer knew he'd been caught even before the cards were tabled, but even so he was drawing to two live cards. Unfortunately for him, the {q-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} flop gave Lehmanski two pair. Sternheimer needed running cards to stay alive, and he found one when the {5-Diamonds} turn gave him a gutshot straight draw to a non-diamond six. The dealer burned one last time and put out the {2-Diamonds}.

Lehmanski made a flush to win the pot while Sternheimer rapped the table and quickly exited the tournament floor. Whether or not he opts to re-enter remains to be seem.

Player Chips Progress
Max Lehmanski de
Max Lehmanski 		310,000 136,800
Philip Sternheimer gb
Philip Sternheimer 		Busted

Tags: Max LehmanskiPhilip Sternheimer

Careful Now

[user252447]
[user252447]
Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The action seems to have slowed down a little bit on table one with fewer hands going post flop and a few opens meeting no resistance. Steve O’Dwyer in particular seems to be able to steal the blinds and antes in position now that his stack is in a more healthy state. Dan Smith won a little pot when he opened to 6,000 in the cut-off and got called in the blinds. A continuation bet of 9,000 when it was checked to him on a {8-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{4-Spades} board was good enough. Vitaly Lunkin has been fairly quiet so far, but a button three bet to 15,000 was persuasive enough to win him the pot.

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