€4,900 Main Event Day 2 | 2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo

04-16-2014 11:04 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Mario Vojvoda	Busted
Tatiana Barausova	Busted
Charles Carrel	Busted
Grzegorz Grochulski	Busted
Quentin Lecomte	Busted
Henrik Hecklen	Busted
Jordan Hamilton	Busted
Max Greenwood	Busted
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	Busted

Michael Tureniec is seated on a really tough table. Mickey Petersen, Dario Sammartino, Pius Heinz and Andrew Chen are seated at the same table, Sergey Rybachenko has already departed. Despite the tough competition, Tureniec is doing really well so far today.

Pius Heinz opened with a raise to 2,000 from early position and Dustin Graves from the US three-bet to 4,900 from middle. While the big blind was sitting out the hand, Michael Tureniec cold-four-bet from the small blind to 10,400. Heinz folded rather quickly, Graves made the call.

The flop brought the two and Tureniec continued for 5,800. Graves made the call and the American called the 11,200 bet on the -turn as well. The river was the and Tureniec checked. Graves quickly checked behind and it was time to table the cards.

Tureniec showed his and Graves silently mucked after one more look at his cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Tureniec	95,000	55,900

Tags: Dustin Graves Michael Tureniec

04-16-2014 10:52 UTC

Canadian Connection

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Shyam Srinivasan has an interesting table constellation as birth day boy Sorel Mizzi and Griffin Benger sit to his immediate left. Srinivasan raised preflop and then called on the flop before leading the turn for 6,100. His opponent called and the river was checked through. The opponent showed the and Srinivasan checked the board carefully before turning over the to win the pot.

The Canadian banter started between the three of them. "You won the hand, didn't you?", said Benger. "Yeah. I called the flop and bet the turn," returned his countryman.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shyam Srinivasan	100,000

Tags: Griffin Benger Shyam Srinivasan Sorel Mizzi

04-16-2014 10:51 UTC

Ramdin Rescues an Orphan

[user252447]

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Kimmo Kurko opened the action for 1,600 from the cutoff and was called on the button by Vyacheslav Stoyanov, small blind Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin and big blind Luigi Scamarcio.

All four players checked it down to the river on a board showing . Ramdin was first to act and bet 3,000. No one wanted to look him and the orphan pot was push to the American.

Tags: Kimmo Kurko Luigi Scamarcio Victor Ramdin Vyacheslav Stoyanov

04-16-2014 10:45 UTC

"Everyone Loves a Chop Pot"

Chad Holloway

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, who won this event back in Season 6, began the day as a short stack, and it didn't take long for her to get it in over at the feature table. She was in the big blind and squaring off against the UK's Oliver Price in the small.

Price:
Boeree:

It was a bad spot for Boeree, and the flop didn't give her much hope. The turn meant that she could chop with either an eight or six on the river, and much to her delight, the spiked. Boeree is still sitting on a short stack, but she is still alive and kicking.

Tags: Oliver Price Liv Boeree

04-16-2014 10:45 UTC

Jude Ainsworth On The Rail

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Jude Ainsowrth has just been eliminated after open shoving 10 big blinds from UTG+1 with the and Andrea Benelli in the big blind called with the . An eight on the flop meant no come back story for the Irishman and he exited the tournament area.

Jude Ainsworth @jthaddeus13

Busto doubled a shorty aq < kk. Left me with 10bbs, then shoved qj and got looked up by j8April 16, 2014

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Player	Chips	Progress
Andrea Benelli	115,000	18,300
Jude Ainsworth	Busted

Tags: Andrea Benelli Jude Ainsworth

04-16-2014 10:43 UTC

The Feature Table on EPTLive

Chad Holloway

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Day 2 marks the first EPT10 Sanremo broadcast on EPTLive, which you can watch by clicking here. One table was selected at the start of play, and that happened to be Table 24 which includes Day 1b chip leader [Removed:17], World Poker Tour Alpha8 commentator Olivier Busquet, and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree.

Here is a look at the table that was chosen at the start of the day:

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Count
24	1	Csaba Varadi	Hungary	39,600
24	2	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	179,000
24	3	Oliver Price	UK	76,200
24	4	Liv Boeree	UK	12,500
24	5	Jorma Nuutinen	Finland	13,500
24	6	Olivier Busquet	USA	72,700
24	7	Mats Sjoblom	Sweden	68,000
24	8	Mitch Johnson	UK	100,700
24	9	Elesion Tusha	Italy	81,100

04-16-2014 10:43 UTC

Next Early Eliminations

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Carl Carlsson	Busted
Georgy Filippovich	Busted
Walter Buss	Busted
Chenxiang Miao	Busted
Sergii Zubariev	Busted
Andrea Carini	Busted
Fabiano Kovalski	Busted
Yulius Sepman	Busted
Benjamin Yu	Busted

04-16-2014 10:36 UTC

Four-Bet Pot Between Danchev and Zack

Webjoker

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

When we walked by table 29, there were already quite some chips in the middle and the flop was already out on the table. Jason Wheeler and Rob Sterken filled us in what had happened before the flop.

Danchev had opened from the cutoff to 1,700 and next door neighbor Daniel Zack had made it 4,300. After both blinds folded, action was back on the 2013 PCA winner and he made it 8,700. Zack made the call.

on the flop and Danchev continued with a 7,600 bet. Zack made the call to grow the pot to 34,600.

The fell on the turn and Danchev checked. Zack announced all in for 21,800 and the decision was up to Danchev. The player from Bulgaria thought about it for some time and ultimately reluctantly called while rolling his eyes a bit.

Time for a showdown and Danchev tabled top pair and top kicker with . Zack showed for the turned two pair.

The river was a blank and the massive pot went to Zack, while Danchev licked his wounds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Zack	78,200	43,100
Dimitar Danchev	43,000	-40,800

Tags: Dimitar Danchev Jason Wheeler Daniel Zack

04-16-2014 10:35 UTC

"That's Why He's a World Champion"

Chad Holloway

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

It's not often we get to see a world-class call, but we just did by a literal world-class player. We're talking about 2011 World Series of Poker champ Pius Heinz.

The hand began when he opened for 2,000 from the hijack only to have Sergey Rybachenko three-bet to 5,600 from the button. The blinds folded, Heinz made the call, and it was heads-up action to the flop.

Heinz checked, Rybachenko bet 4,500, and Heinz woke up with a check-raise to 11,000. Rybachenko made the call and then fired out 12,500 when his German opponent checked the turn. Heinz called it, and then promptly checked the river. Rybachenko stacked his remaining 30,000 chips and slowly slid them forward.

"How much?" Heinz asked. The champ then contemplated the decision for around 90 seconds. A call would cost about two-thirds of his remaining chips, and he decided to go with it.

"Nice call," Rybachenko said and showed the for a bluff. Heinz then tabled the for just ace high. His read was right, and he was rewarded with a monster pot.

"That's why he's a world champ," Team Online's Mickey Petersen commented after the hand.

Meanwhile, Artem Litvinov and Tommaso Bonini have also been eliminated from the tournament.