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2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
Buy-in
€8,000
Prize Pool
€3,832,000
Entries
479
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
He eliminated one of the players on his table after it all went in on the turn of a
board. Veldhuis held the rather nutty 
against his foe's 
. The Dutchman easily managed to avoid the
on the river when the 
came instead and now has a stack big enough that he can go and chill on the beach for the rest of the day. But he probably won't.
The gent next to him tried to explain in very broken English what happened, but bloggers are woefully not trained in pidgin. It seems as though the gentleman in seat 1 had been playing literally every hand and Maceiras attempted to play back at him -- but mistimed a move against the seat 1 player who also found folding difficult, and he is done.
It now falls to his sister Maria to defend the Maceiras family name.
The five players saw the flop come down
. Action checked to Kravchenko and he fired 700 into the pot. One by one, each player folded and Kravchenko added a nice little pot to his stack here in the early goings.
with the pot standing at around 9,000 chips. Lex Veldhuis fired a bet of 6,875. His opponent in the hand raised to 17,875. Veldhuis made the call and tabled pocket eights -- 
. His opponent flashed two fours from his hand, having flopped a smaller set. Veldhuis is now up to 60,000 chips.
flop.It checked all around, and the saw a
turn. Julian Thew in the small blind bet 500, but only the gent in the big blind was deterred, and both Mizrachi and the gentleman on the button called.They saw a
river and now Thew checked. Mizrachi turned the aggression back on and bet 2,600; both players folded, and Mizrachi was above his starting stack.
. Roux flipping 
which had pipped his opponent's , despite some confusion from the dealer.
He's up to an early chip-leading 48,000, at the expense of the hapless young qualifier to his right, who looks as though he might cry.
board into two players, one called, while the other, Alex Kravchenko, folded.Van Til showed
and raked in the chips.