2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
5♠5♦
Prize
€1,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€6,014,000
Total Entries
1,240
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 1,240
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De Korver Stack Petering Out

Oh dear. It's been a poor start for reigning EPT Grand Final champion Pieter de Korver. We don't have the details, but we arrived just in time to see him mucking his cards and turning his attention to his ipod, presumably changing the music to something more maudlin to suit his mood.

He's down to 18,000.

Tags: Pieter de Korver

Berg Has A Beef

Thierry Van Den Berg must be scratching his head. He held {J-?} {J-?} on a {10-?} {8-?} {3-?} flop firing 600 and getting one caller. On the {5-?} turn he bet 1,600 getting called again before both checked the {Q-?} river.

He lost the hand to his opponent who was holding, the perhaps inexplicable, {Q-?} {2-?}.

No, we do not get it either.

Tags: Thierry Van Den Berg

Fantastic Voyage!

Michael Greco, Marc Goodwin and Tony Cascarino have just arrived after an epic journey. They left London yesterday, got to Paris then spent four hours waiting in a hotel before going to the airport.

They there found out all flights were cancelled, headed back to Paris and got a 6 hour train to Nice where they had to sit next to the toilet as the train was full.

Finally they've just arrived, luckily having only lost 2,000 of their chips so far.

Still More

The field is huge, the rooms are crowded, and many of the well-known players are, owing to the aforementioned quirk of Italian law, not wearing the logos and patches that so often help us identify them. All of this adds up to every foray on to the tournament floor making us feel much the way we imagine goldfish feel upon seeing the little plastic castle at the bottom of their tank every time they pass by it - wow, where did that come from? That wasn't there before!

Among the faces that have just recently come into focus like some kind of card-based autostereogram are Tobias Reinkemeier, Toni Ojala, [Removed:197], Amnon Filippi and Aurelien Guiglini. We fully expect to be newly discovering more famous faces throughout the day - particularly as the PokerStars Express Bus is due to roll into San Remo at around 4.30pm.

Where's Your Patch?

A patch-less Lindgren
A patch-less Lindgren
Yesterday, we noticed that most of the players from other poker sites are unpatched and unbranded here in San Remo. Erick Lindgren was the first one that caught our eye, sitting in a light blue Coors T-shirt with no poker markings at all.

In case you've been wondering about that as well, the branding limits have to do with a legal issue here in Italy. The only branding that is allowed in the casino are the logos of companies with legally established .it websites. That excludes a number of the large poker sites, but PokerStars is good to go, and just about everything and everyone are decked out in the black and red.

You can bet the host sponsor are not among those complaining about that pesky law.

More Faces Still?

We're telling you, this field is huge. And stacked with big names.

We've just spotted Jake Cody for the first time; the winner of EPT Deauville is doing a remarkably good job obscuring himself under his hoodie.

We've also found Jeff Sarwer, sitting with Marion Nedellec. Not sure how we missed him; we've been staring at that table for about two hours now.

We've also recently discovered Ramzi Jelassi, Amnon Filippi, and Benny Spindler, and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden has decided to join in the fun as well.

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Break it Up

Two levels come and go so quickly these days. That's 120 minutes of poker in the books, and the players are being rewarded with 15 minutes to loiter about the hallways and converse around the bars.

Back before you know it.
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