2010 EPT Prague

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2010 EPT Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
€640,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,730,550
Entries
563
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Palovic's PokerStars Logo Brings Him Luck

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Dag Palovic
Dag Palovic

The man who has recently had the PokerStars logo dyed into the back of his head, Dag Palovic, has just doubled up through an overly aggressive Gianni Giaroni. In the hand previous to the double up, John Eames raised to 1,300 from early position, the gentleman in the hijack flat calls him but Giaroni in the small blind makes a huge raise to 40,000, which only results in both of his opponents folding.

The very next hand, the action folds around to Palovic in the cutoff made it 1,500 to play and this time Giaroni min-raises to 3,000. When the blinds muck their hands, Palovic makes the call.

Flop: {4-Hearts}{q-Clubs}{9-Hearts} – Palovic checks but Giaroni makes it 15,000 to play, which is more than Palovic has left in his stack. After around two minutes, during which time I see Palovic's {Q-Spades} several times, he makes the call and we discover that he has the {10-Spades} to go with the card he has been purposely revealing to me stood behind him.

Giaroni turns over {a-Diamonds}{j-Spades} and Palovic looks nervous. However, his nerves are calmed when the turn and river come out the {3-Clubs} and {5-Clubs} respectively and he doubles up to 31,000, whilst Giaroni slips to around 28,500.

Tags: Dag PalovicGianni GiaroniJohn Eames