2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
78
Prize
€404,793
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Entries
322
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Jesus Saves Himself a Showdown

Jesus Sanchez, who apparently qualified in his local card room for €50, is having a marvellous time.

Having knocked out Barny Boatman earlier to put him on a very decent stack, he just now got himself involved in a massive hand with British online qualifier Matthew Nieberg.

We caught up with the action on the river, the board reading {9-Spades} {6-Spades} {Q-Spades} {8-Hearts} {10-Hearts} and around 60,000 in the pot already. Nieberg in the small blind position thought about it for a while before checking; after some time thinking about it, Sanchez bet 44,000 from the button.

"That's why I should bet," sighed Nieberg, "That's looking like a terrible river check from me now."

He dwelled up for what seemed like a million years. "Show me if I fold?" he asked eventually. "Nope," was the very decisive answer from Sanchez. Nieberg sighed and disappeared into the tank again. He counted out the call - no feeling sorry for him, as a call would still leave him on over 200,000! - but continued to tank. Eventually he called the clock on himself. The dealer thought he was joking, but he wasn't.

"I don't see why you'd call twice," he muttered, offering a tantalizing glimpse of how that pre-river action went down. Eventually he folded.

"If you had a straight I was beat," he said as the pot went Sanchez' way, "I had a set." Sanchez declined to reveal what he'd had, but was spotted giggling with a member of the Spanish media a little later. Curious.

Sanchez - 160,000
Nieberg - even without that pot, looking to be our current chip leader on over 250,000

Tags: Jesus SanchezMatthew Nieberg