€10,300 High Roller Day 1 | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Malta

03-27-2015 02:35 UTC+2

€10,000 High Roller: Rui Ferreira Leads, Max Silver Again a Big Stack

Webjoker

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

The last big event of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Malta got underway this afternoon — the €10,300 High Roller.

Here's a thing you should know about high rollers and these tournaments; most of the players aren't very keen on getting up early. And with "early," we mean before noon. So when most high-roller events start at 1 p.m., most of the times there's just a handful of players actually playing from the first deal. More and more players sign up and filter in throughout the course of the course of the day, with the most buying in around 3 p.m. or so.

When there were already over 50 players sitting as the '"shuffle up and deal" announcement was given, we knew this one was going to be a big one. And so it was, with a total of 288 entries made on Day 1. That number was a combination of 228 unique players and 60 reentries. Plus, registration will remain open until 15 minutes before the start of Day 2, and the field is highly expected to get a few more entries.

The definitive prize pool will be announced as soon as registration closes, but it already stands at over €2.8 million — just €1.5 million less than the prize pool of the €5,300 Main Event.

All the big names were in the field on Day 1, or should we say almost all of them? Dzmitry Urbanovich has already won three events in Malta during this festival, finished runner-up in a fourth, and made the final table of a fifth for a total of five cashes. But, he was nowhere to be seen today in the €10,300 High Roller. Why? Well, Urbanovich was busy going deep in another event and told PokerNews he would be signing up for Day 2.

Notables such as Ole Schemion and Bryn Kenney entered twice and busted twice, while others made it through the day on a single bullet like Max Silver, Adrian Mateos, and Ludovic Geilich. It was Silver who finished second in chips with 277,100 in chips — a familiar spot he's been in before here in Malta, after having worked his way to the chip lead on Day 1b of the Main Event. Unfortunately, he failed to cash in that one despite his early rise. Bagging the most chips after ten levels was Rui Ferreira with 280,000.

There was more than one remarkable hand on the day, like the one where Vanessa Selbst bet 3,400 on a flop after getting confirmation from the dealer that Ilkin Amirov had checked. Then, all of a sudden, Amirov had 4,600 in front of him. Despite this, Selbst won that hand, which she described as one of the weirdest hands she had ever played.

Or what do you think of Patrick Leonard's bust out? After a raise, three-bet, and cold four-bet, Leonard found ace-king in the big blind, but the dealer mucked his cards by accident. Leonard got his hand back by telling his exact cards to the dealer, who then fished them out of the muck. Leonard shoved, got called by Ludovic Geilich with jacks, and busted when the flop came jack-high.

A total of 10 levels were played on the first day, eliminating 136 players. Friday will be Day 2, and play starts at 12 p.m. local time with the 142 remaining players, together with the possible last-minute entries. Another 10 levels are on the schedule for Day 2, or play will stop when the field is down to the final table of eight. Play starts with an average of 95,000 in Level 11 (1,000/2,000/300).

PokerNews will again be present to give you all the updates you can ask for from the PokerStars.com EPT Malta €10,300 High Roller., and you can also follow along with Main Event coverage by clicking here.

Tags: Adrian Mateos Bryn Kenney Dzmitry Urbanovich Ilkin Amirov Ludovic Geilich Max Silver Ole Schemion Patrick Leonard Vanessa Selbst

03-27-2015 01:00 UTC+2

Leonard's Hand Mucked, Gets it Back, Busts

Webjoker

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

We weren't witness ourselves, but our photographer told us about the start of an interesting hand. Jesse Sylvia opened under the gun for 6,000 and Ivan Soshnikov three-bet the button to 8,700. Small blind Ludovic Geilich made a cold four-bet to 17,800. Big blind Patrick Leonard's cards were then mucked by the dealer by accident.

Floor Kate Badurek came over, took Leonard aside and asked him what his cards were. He told her the exact cards, and she retrieved them out of the muck exactly where Leonard had said they would be.

With his cards back in his possession, Leonard now shoved all in for 98,000 to make the interesting hand even more bizarre. Soshnikov folded his button and Geilich went into the tank.

This is where we picked up the action and witnessed the two chatting a bit. We heard Leonard at one point say "You gotta gamble." Geilich wasn't convinced just yet and needed some more time. A player at the table called the clock and once more floor Badurek got involved. She started the one-minute countdown and at half way through, Geilich made the call.

Ludovic Geilich:
Patrick Leonard:

The flop came about as good as they could for Geilich with . After the on the turn Geilich didn't have to worry anymore, the on the river was there just to make things official.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ludovic Geilich	230,000	105,000
Patrick Leonard	Busted

Tags: Ivan Soshnikov Ludovic Geilich Patrick Leonard

03-26-2015 23:57 UTC+2

Selbst: "This is one of the weirdest hands I've ever played"

Webjoker

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Vanessa Selbst (seen here in the €25,000 High Roller)

Ilkin Amirov opened under the gun and Vanessa Selbst made the call on the button. Mustapha Kanit called from the big blind.

The flop came and Kanit checked. Selbst asked if Amirov had checked as well, and got a confirmative answer from the dealer. She then bet 3,400, and when the dealer looked, all of the sudden Amirov had 4,600 in front of him. Kanit folded already, but now there was some confusion as to what had happened.

It turned out that Amirov hadn't checked yet, and wanted to bet. Floor Kate Badurek was called over and consulted with tournament director Toby Stone to make a ruling.

Before they got back, rail bird Carlos Chadha was already making his own ruling. He said that Amirov's bet didn't stand as Selbst's bet was first. Chadha then said that it sucked for Amirov as he wouldn't have the option to bluf cheap anymore. He followed that up with a comment about being able to check raise. Mustapha Kanit joined in and said Amirov could just check call, "and hit the turn like a boss."

Selbst was laughing at first, but on a more serious note she asked them to stop discussing lines Amirov could take.

Toby Stone got over, double checked with the dealer what had happened, and ruled that Amirov's bet didn't stand, but Selbst's bet did. The dealer mistake made Amirov check, though that clearly wasn't his intention.

Amirov agreed with the ruling, saying he now had more information anyway. He called the 3,400 bet, but check folded to Selbst's 8,500 bet on the turn.

"This is one of the weirdest hands I've ever played" Selbst said while raking in the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ilkin Amirov	204,000	-26,000
Vanessa Selbst	80,000	10,000

Tags: Ilkin Amirov Mustapha Kanit Vanessa Selbst

03-26-2015 21:36 UTC+2

PokerNews Podcast Episode #274: RAWA Reaction feat. Giuliano Bendinelli and Anatoly Filatov

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Level 6 : 300/600, 75 ante

Rich and Donnie break down Wednesday's RAWA hearing on Capitol Hill, and Remko talks to Global Poker Masters champion and MVP Giuliano Bendinelli, along with Russia's Anatoly Filatov.

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Tags: Anatoly Filatov Giuliano Bendinelli PokerNews Podcast

03-26-2015 20:54 UTC+2

CONVersation: Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer is Poker's Newest Ambassador

MarcC

Level 6 : 300/600, 75 ante

The GPI European Poker Awards were a roaring success last night, and one of the standout winners was Team PokerStars Pro Gorge Danzer.

The very popular German has been a positive force on the European Poker Tour for a number of years now, and despite being nominated for Breakout Player of the Year, it was actually the Best Poker Ambassador award that he walked away with – an award without any nominees- decided wholly by fan votes.

Danzer is currently playing in the EPT Malta High Roller event (down to 35K from a 50K starting stack) and was kind enough to spare PokerNews some time for a chat during a break.

PokerNews: You were nominated for the Breakout Player of the Year Award but have been around a long time. Did you find that strange, or do you feel 2014 was your breakout year, especially in tournaments?

Danzer: For me it really felt like a breakout year. I don’t know exactly how they come up with the nominees – what the rules were; if you weren’t allowed to be nominated if you’ve won a tournament before; if you’ve been around for a couple of years you couldn’t be included, but after they nominated me, I thought, yeah, maybe they just take it as it is. I was doing okay and then had an exceptional, breakout, year. After I was nominated I thought I had a good chance of winning it.

Amazingly you won the Best Poker Ambassador award. Were you shocked?

I didn’t expect that at all because there are a lot of poker players who have a huge following on Twitter, Facebook and are big stars around the scene. I was sure they were going to get a lot of votes because of the fans that they have. I have a smaller fan base in Germany but then I was really surprised when that was enough to win that category. It was great!

As an ambassador, how do you feel you’ve helped progress the game in Germany?

I think we, Jan Heitmann and myself, since 2005 were the first ones to bring it to the mainstream. We started a poker blog called “Poker Amigos” where we talked about what we were doing around the world; playing tournaments and making a lot of appearances on German TV shows.

Since 2007 I’ve been part of Team Pro, or Shooting Stars as it was back then. I’ve also been around the media for a long time and I think that it’s not just the way I explain the game to other people, it’s how I play the game – to always be at the table in a way I wish everyone would be at the table. It’s really hard as we get a lot of bad beats in poker but it’s just the way I approach it, and I wish most people would do it like that.

The German Team Pro Team has been massively shrunk in the past few years. How do you keep earning your contract?

Now a lot has shifted to social media, which I’m not an expert in, so I’m just trying to do what I can there. There are new channels now, for example, Twitch that I have created a channel on where I stream a couple of times a week. I explain some strategy and how I play the game, all for free. Giving out content too and not just keeping all the secrets for you and trying to beat players but trying to give something back to the community. I like talking to people and most of them know I’m going to answer them.

During the WSOP last summer, were you keeping in touch with your fans?

Yes, I was mostly doing German video blogs. They are on the PokerStars Blog and the usual outlets. I also did a Google Hangout and the Remko Report which we’re going to do again this year from Las Vegas. We’re going to make a live chat and stuff like that.

Take us back to when you first played poker, fell in love with game and realized you were good at it?

I first discovered poker at chess tournaments. We used to play other cards games like Magic and a German game called Schafkopf and Skat, when one day some guy said we should try this Texas hold'em they play in the US. We played no-limit Texas hold'em in the evening and I lost a little but I bought a couple of books, like The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky, and I tried to get better so the next time I beat them.

Then one day I started playing a little bit online and I liked it. It grew very slowly and then just when the poker boom came it was exactly at the point that I had learned a little strategy. Then I thought, let's try some live tournaments so came on to the live circuit and since then, I’m here!

You’ve achieved so much in the past year to 18 months. How so you keep yourself motivated and what goals, if any, do you have for the next year or so?

I’ve always wanted to win a SCOOP or WCOOP leaderboard and I was so close but didn’t win it. Each year I play a complete SCOOP and a complete WCOOP in an attempt to win the leaderboard. Now that I’m the WSOP Player of the Year of course I’m going to try and defend it as no one has ever done that before. I’ve always wanted to win an EPT too, so there’s enough stuff left after winning the bracelets to keep me motivated for the next couple of years, at least.

Tags: George Danzer

03-26-2015 20:30 UTC+2

Boeree Busto

Webjoker

Level 6 : 300/600, 75 ante

Andras Nemeth opened the cutoff and Liv Boeree made the call on the button. The big blind came along as well and the three of them saw a flop of .

The big blind checked to Nemeth and he bet 3,000. Boeree raised it up to 7,500 and the big blind folded. Nemeth three-bet to 21,000, and called the 40,000 total shove that followed.

Andras Nemeth:
Liv Boeree:

It was still essentially a coinflip, with a small edge for Boeree. This time though, the top two wouldn't hold. The on the turn filled up Nemeth's straight and Boeree needed to go looking for a jack or an eight. The on the river wasn't what Boeree was looking for and the English Team Pro hit the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andras Nemeth	125,000	60,000
Liv Boeree	Busted

Tags: Andras Nemeth Liv Boeree

03-26-2015 20:13 UTC+2

The Boss!

Webjoker

Level 6 : 300/600, 75 ante

Simon Boss opened the button to 1,200 and Joao Vieira three-bet from the button. Boss just shoved all in for about 70,000.

Joao Vieira made the call, according to Shayam Srinivasan who told us the pre flop action after the hand was done.

Simon Boss:
Joao Vieira:

The board ran out and Vieira was already heading for the exit.

"The boss!" Marc-Andre Ladouceur said, "That was f***ing boss!" Srinivasan added.

"Small ball was yesterday" Boss laughed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Simon Boss	130,000	77,000
Joao Vieira	Busted

Tags: Marc-Andre Ladouceur Simon Boss Joao Vieira Shayam Srinivasan

03-26-2015 18:43 UTC+2

The Artem Litvinov Show: Performing Now

Happy_Freaked

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

"So we have Team East, Team West, a referee and then you can be the fan," Artem Litvinov said to Kitty Kuo after a hand during which almost every player at the table had their own role.

Litvinov motioned that Kuo could be the supporter, or perhaps cheerleader, of the teams that he had defined, but she didn't agree.

"I not like, I am tiger," Kuo said, and both Litvinov and Connor Drinan chuckled.

Kuo went on to ask players at the table if they wanted a piece of apple, as she had brought a pre-packaged bag with apple slices, but everyone declined.

"Who knows, I eat the apple and then I," Litvinov said, as he acted out fainting and falling of his chair.

Everyone at the table laughed, and here is how it all started.

Five minutes earlier...

Litvinov was seated in early position and raised to 950. Pratyush Buddiga, Tobias Peters and the player in Seat 8 made the call.

"One team, yes?" Litvinov asked both Drinan and Tsoukernik, who were seated to his immediate left.

"Team East," Litvinov pointed at Drinan and Tsoukernik, "And team West," he said while looking at his opponents in this four-way pot.

The flop brought and the player in the small blind checked to Litvinov, who said that everyone in the hand should check.

"We all check," Litvinov smiled at the dealer, and he got what he wished for as Buddiga and Peters laughed as they checked behind.

Before the dealer put the turn out Litvinov said, "Ace please," but the popped up.

"Okay, we check again," Litvinov directed himself to the dealer again.

Both the player in the blinds, Litvinov and Buddiga checked, but Peters reached for chips.

"No, no, no, no," Litvinov fired out in rapid succession as he was trying to keep Peters from betting.

"Look," the one-man show continued, "If you bet, I call and your team folds. Then it's one against one. If you check, then your team has three and I'm still just one."

After Litvinov finished his convincing argument for not betting Peters laughed and said, "Oh man, it's impossible to concentrate at this table."

"Am I allowed to bet?" Peters asked the dealer, as Litvinov had previously informed the dealer that everyone would check.

"Don't ask the dealer," Litvinov responded, "Just play."

"I would've bet four minutes ago," Peters responded with a smile, "But you tried to talk me out of it."

Eventually Peters bet 2,450 and after the player in the blinds folded the action was on Litvinov. The Russian looked at this cards, showed them to Drinan on his left, and said that he would fold.

"Fold, right?" Litvinov asked Drinan.

"Yeah, we fold," the €25k High Roller runner up said, as he played along in Litvinov's team game.

Buddiga could not stop laughing, and neither could Sergi Reixach who was sitting right in between the two teams Litvinov had created.

Because Litvinov had shown his cards to Drinan the hand had to be tabled, but Litvinov argued, jokingly, that the cards were only for his team to see. When Buddiga had folded, Peters showed his cards to his 'team member' and Litvinov wanted to see the cards right away.

Peters tabled , and Litvinov said in his most serious voice, "Oh, you bluff now? What you doing."

The dealer started dealing out the next hand and that's when Reixach, the man in the middle, got involved. Litvinov tried to come up with a way to include him, and he liked Reixach's own suggestion of being the referee, as he was sitting right in between Team West and Team East.

On the next hand Reixach committed chips to the pot, and Litvinov immediately called him out for it.

"You are the referee, you can't play!"

"I am the referee now, so I decide what the rules are," Reixach said.

The hand ended up going to the turn, with a board showing , and Reixach bet 700 in a four-way pot.

"No, no, no, no. This is not possible," Litvinov continued, as he didn't like that the referee was getting involved.

"The referee has decided, it's 700 to play now," Reixach gave as quick retort.

Once again everyone laughed, and the referee ended up taking down this pot that had no further significance besides it being very fun to listen to all the table talk.

"Oh man, High Rollers are so much more fun than Main Events," Buddiga said, and while we agree it's mostly about who gets to play with Mister Litvinov because he's putting on a world class performance right now.

Tickets to this show are €10,000+€300 and you can enter until 11:45 a.m. tomorrow, unfortunately there is no guarantee you will get a seat at this table though, so for now just stay tuned to our coverage as we will try to bring you more episodes from The Litvinov Show.

Player	Chips	Progress
Connor Drinan	79,000	-1,000
Artem Litvinov	62,000	8,000
Kitty Kuo	60,000	10,000
Pratyush Buddiga	59,000	-1,000
Sergi Reixach	55,000	5,000
Leon Tsoukernik	52,000	2,000
Tobias Peters	48,000	-2,000

Tags: Artem Litvinov Connor Drinan Pratyush Buddiga Sergi Reixach Tobias Peters

03-26-2015 16:46 UTC+2

Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em High Rollers: Taking a Little Shot

Chad Holloway

Level 3 : 150/300, 25 ante

World Poker Tour champ. Online poker player. Noted poker author. Jonathan Little wears many hats, but European Poker Tour champ is not one of them. He hopes to change that today in the EPT Malta €10,000 High Roller.

"I ended up skipping the WPT California Swing as they call it because I wanted to come here and be somewhat fresh," Little told PokerNews before the start of play. "I knew if I went there for three weeks and then came straight here I would not do too well. It was pretty much one of the two. It's the first time I ever skipped that WPT stop though, and I hated to do it, but the EPT schedule guarantees a lot of volume, whereas in WPTs you have to go for three weeks and play five tournaments. It's just not as great a schedule."

Little, who won the WPT Season VII Foxwoods World Poker Finals for $1,120,310, has become a circuit regular on the EPT, and he's notched some solid results recently. Back in February, he took 23rd in the EPT Deauville High Roller for $29,447, and he had three cashes at the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure a month before that, including third in Event #9 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 8-Handed for $52,624.

Little played and busted the EPT Malta Main Event, but skipped the €25,000 before that, though he admits the only reason being that he didn't have enough "Stars money."

"I'm pretty used to playing high rollers," said Little. "You'll find that in general that whatever the biggest tournament is, be it €25K or €50K, that it is very different than the €10K. I feel the €10K is generally more affordable to guys who are not professionals, whereas the others attract very few amateurs."

Speaking of amateurs, Little is known to cater to them via numerous book titles, including the critically acclaimed Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker. Most of his books focus on tournaments with much more affordable buy-ins, so has Little ever thought of complimenting it with a text devoted to high rollers?

"If I win I might write something about it," Little said with a laugh. "I feel the audience for that is much smaller. I have done training videos and products on high roller type tournaments that are very tough fields, but I have never produced a book on them."

While a high roller book isn't on the horizon – barring a win in this event – Little does have a new book slated to come out this summer, one that features contributions from a slew of pros including Team PokerStars Pros Chris Moneymaker and Liv Boeree, 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton.

"It's called Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em," Little offered. "A lot of other great poker players involved, Liv Boeree is involved, she was the Female Player of the Year out here in Europe. That was fun to see her awarded with that last night. There are a lot of great poker players and authors involved. They all speak about whatever they’re most passionate about."

PokerNews Managing Editor Chad Holloway also contributed a chapter to Little's new book. He recently talked about the experience in his weekly strategy column Hold'em with Holloway.

Little's new book will release on June 13, and while he's excited about it, today it's all about focus, especially after coming off a big night where he "drank too much" and "partied all night."

"Usually I try to be somewhat sane. Last night I was partying a little bit harder than normal, but it's fine, it was a very rare occasion," said Little. "Today I woke up and feel great. Wake up, have some food, and go play some poker, though I do not suggest going out and partying the day before a big tournament."

Little's partying came during the European Poker Awards, which saw last year's EPT Vienna Main Event earn an award for "Best Tournament with a Buy-in Over €2,000." Before that, he attended the accompanying European Poker Conference, which offered numerous panels with industry experts from throughout Europe.

"It's good for me as a player to recognize where a lot of the casino industry people are coming from, realizing they're trying to make money at the end of the day while at the same time trying to build poker into something you can sustain in the long run," Little said when asked what he took away from the conference.

Little seemed in good spirits and successfully recovered from last night's festivities. We'll have to wait and see if he can find success here on Day 1, but rest assured we will keep a close eye on him.

Tags: Jonathan Little PokerNews Live Blog Feature

03-26-2015 14:18 UTC+2

The Great Name Debate: Ignat Liviu or Liviu Ignat

Chad Holloway

Level 1 : 100/200, 25 ante

There are some truly great online players out there better known by their screen names than their given names. Take "Isildur1" for example. For years he was online poker's most notorious player, but no one knew who he was. Eventually PokerStars rolled back the curtain and revealed him to be none other than Sweden's Viktor Blom.

Another moniker famous in the virtual realm is that of "0Human0," a Romanian player who cut his chops playing no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha on PokerStars. Like "Isildur1," the man behind the screen name remained a mystery for a good long while, but eventually it was revealed to be former engineering student Ignat Liviu. So it remained until today.

You see, in Romania it's traditional for one to give their family name first. So when you first meet the man behind "0Human0 " — who doesn't speak much English — he'll more than likely introduced himself as Ignat Liviu. As it happens, Ignat is among the 56 players returning to action in the EPT Malta Main Event today (follow updates from that event by clicking here), and he's actually been seated at the feature table. That means he'll get some airtime, and so the TV crew needed to be 100% on his name, which was listed as "Liviu Ignat" on his PokerStars ID.

A similar situation happened with Ionel Anton, who was reported the other way around for many years before making the final table of the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, where he eventually finished fourth for $675,000. He too was from Romania, so that was the first clue.

Still, when it came to Ignat, HendonMob and past reports had him as "Ignat Liviu," and he never corrected those who wrote it that way – we even did it in an interview with him back in 2012. Well, just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right. It's been confirmed that Ignat is indeed his family name, meaning when it comes to spelling it out, it should be Liviu Ignat.

Now that his name has been sorted out, let us tell you a little more about "0Human0." Rather, we'll let Ignat tell you.

"I started playing poker about four years ago," Ignat previously told PokerNews. "At the end of 2007, I deposited $250 at Full Tilt and lost it. Then I deposited $250 at PokerStars and began playing $0.10/$0.25 no-limit hold’em and moved up in stakes using standard bankroll management.

"In January 2008, I was playing $0.50/$1.00, then in the summer $2/$4, and by the end of the year $5/$10. In 2009, I started playing $10/$20 NLH and then $25/$50, and in 2010 and 2011 I played any stake at NLH I could. I even started $25/$50 pot-limit Omaha too."

According to highstakesdb.com, Ignat’s biggest outright win came in $100/$200 PLO on February 23, 2012. In the hand, action was five-handed when “MaiseE” ($50,291.26) opened for $400 under the gun, Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies ($99,135) three-bet to $1,700 from the cutoff and Ville Wahlbeck ($19,120) four-bet $6,000 from the button. Ignat ($37,925) made the call from the small blind, both “MaiseE” and Sahamies came along for the ride, and it was four-way action to the flop.

Ignat was first to act and checked, opening the door for “MaiseE” to fire out $13,300. Sahamies got out of the way, Wahlbeck called off his remaining $13,120 and Ignat woke up with a check-raise all in for $31,925. “MaiseE” made the call and the board completed and on the turn and river respectively. Ignat rolled over for Broadway, and it was good enough to pull in the $101,245 pot.

In addition to playing online, Ignat has padded his résumé with $220,545, with his biggest cash being $80,335 for a 14th-place finish in the EPT Prague Main Event back in December 2011.

Liviu “0Human0” Ignat’s Notable Live Tournament Results

Date	Event	Place	Prize
December 5, 2011	EPT Prague €5,000 Main Event	14th	$80,335
January 31, 2012	EPT Deauville €5,000 Main Event	12th	$65,757
May 6, 2013	EPT Grand Final Main Event	78th	$32,334
October 21, 2011	EPT San Remo €4,600 Main Event	67th	$20,681

"I really like playing the EPT's. I try to play most of them, it’s like a nice holiday, and something else different from the daily routine," said Liviu, who began today 37th in chips with 312,000. Ignat has shown he knows how to go deep in EPT Main Events, but he's still looking for his first final table. Will it happen here in Malta? We'll definitely be keeping an eye on Ignat Liviu, errrrr we mean Liviu Ignat, in the Main Event.

Tags: "0Human0"Ignat Liviu PokerNews Live Blog Feature