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2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo
There had been a fair amount of action by the look of it based on the amount of chips in the middle of the table.
The cards read ![]()
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and with about 300,000 in the middle Raul Mestre thought for a while before announcing “two hundred thousand.” and sliding the chips out.
A jolt shot through his opponent, Brazilian PokerStars player, Douglas Souza agonizing audibly. In the end he decided he just couldn’t fold and jumped out of his chair when Mestre turned over ![]()
for the rivered full house.
Eventually Souza turned over ![]()
for the turned, but ultimately worse full house. Several polayers agreed that they couldn’t fold that.
Jordan Westmorland felt moved to say, “Oh my God. This game is gross.”
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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680,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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90,000
146,000
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146,000 |
From the cutoff, Vicky Coren raised to 13,000 and Raul Mestre defended his big blind. The Spaniard check-called 15,000 on the ![]()
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flop, both then checked the
turn. On the
river, Mestre bet for 35,000 and Coren raised to 75,000. The Spaniard did not snap call, in fact he took about two minutes before tossing in the chips for the call.
Coren turned over the ![]()
for the nut flush and that was enough to rake in the chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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|
740,000
135,000
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135,000 |
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500,000
110,000
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110,000 |
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Tom Alner got his stack of 126,000 all in preflop and received a call from Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren, who had recently moved tables.
Alner: ![]()
Coren: ![]()
Alner was in trouble, but he found some help on the ![]()
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. Neither the
turn nor
river changed a thing, and Coren had no other option than to take to Twitter.

Ach!! New table. Immediately a guy's all in for 126k with AQ against my AK. Then Q on the flop. A big, nasty loss. I want my old table back.Follow @VictoriaCoren
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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390,000
120,000
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120,000 |
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260,000
134,000
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134,000 |
Michael Telker opened from the button for 12,000 and got called by small blind Vicky Coren and big blind Olivier Busquet.
The flop was ![]()
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and Coren led for 15,000. Busquet folded and Telker started to laugh, questioning how she could possibly have anything of that flop. “That wine has gone straight to my head.” goaded Coren
Telker however made the fold.
Vicky Coren was facing off against Dan Murariu again after cracking his kings. The two of them had gone to a flop of ![]()
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. Coren checked from the big blind and called a bet of 14,000 from Murariu. The turn card was the
which both players checked and the river
was checked around too.
“Give me the money.” Coren said turning over ![]()
. It was good and the money was hers.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | Flavien Guenan | France | €10,170 |
| 51 | Alex Lindop | United Kingdom | €10,170 |
| 52 | Valeri Savov | Bulgaria | €10,170 |
| 53 | Alessio Sardone | Italy | €10,170 |
| 54 | Federico Petruzzelli | Italy | €10,170 |
| 55 | Thiago Crema De Macedo | Brazil | €10,170 |
| 56 | Thomas Miller | Canada | €9,180 |
| 57 | [Removed:17] | New-Zealand | €9,180 |
| 58 | Rafael Da Silva Morales | Brazil | €9,180 |
| 59 | Matas Cimbolas | United Kingdom | €9,180 |
| 60 | Mathew Frankland | United Kingdom | €9,180 |
| 61 | Johnny Lodden | Norway | €9,180 |
| 62 | John Haigh | United Kingdom | €9,180 |
| 63 | Jean-Philippe Peyratoux | France | €9,180 |
| 64 | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | €9,180 |
| 65 | Alberto Musini | Italy | €9,180 |
| 66 | Nikolay Tsanev | Bulgaria | €9,180 |
| 67 | Ivan Gabrieli | Italy | €9,180 |
| 68 | Caglar Bayindir | Turkey | €9,180 |
| 69 | Eldar Moldobek Uulu | Kyrgyzstan | €9,180 |
| 70 | Rytis Praninskas | Lithuania | €9,180 |
| 71 | Alex Longobardi | Italy | €9,180 |
| 72 | Bernardo Dias | Brazil | €8,434 |
| 73 | Victor Ramdin | United States | €8,434 |
| 74 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | €8,434 |
| 75 | Marcel Vonk | Netherlands | €8,434 |
| 76 | Mario Sanchez Cano | United Kingdom | €8,434 |
| 77 | Jan Sjavik | Norway | €8,434 |
| 78 | Dmitry Ponomarev | Russia | €8,434 |
| 79 | Jorge Ribeiro | Brazil | €8,434 |
It took two hands in a row and the stack of Mitch Johnson was reduced to zero. First Dinesh Alt raised to 12,000 and called the three-bet of Johnson one seat over to 28,000. On the ![]()
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flop, both players checked. The
turn saw Alt bet 23,000 and he was called before making it 54,000 on the
river. Johnson tank called and mucked versus the ![]()
of his opponent.
The very next hand, Alt opened again to 12,000 and Johnson moved all in for 93,000. All opponents folded and Alt took a long time before making the call with the ![]()
. Johnson was ahead preflop with the ![]()
but the ![]()
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board delivered the straight for the Swiss.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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770,000
170,000
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170,000 |
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Busted |
Filippo Marroccoli shoved all in for 303,000 before the flop and got called by Alessandro Meoni. Marrocolli tabled ![]()
and was relieved to see the ![]()
of Meoni.
The final board was ![]()
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and Marroccoli doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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612,000
312,000
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312,000 |
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180,000
10,000
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10,000 |
Jorma Nuutinen raised cutoff for 12,000 and one seat over, Bruno Stefanelli moved all in for 132,000. Andrija Martic in the big blind called and Nuutinen folded. It was a typical coin flip with the ![]()
for the Italian and the ![]()
for the Croatian. The ![]()
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flop left no doubt about the winner of the hand, the
turn and
river were not important anymore.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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630,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
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280,000
75,000
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75,000 |