2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
€1,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€6,014,000
Entries
1,240
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0

In Too Diep

Alexey Rybin raised to 115,000 to open the pot, and he found a call from Giuseppe Diep in the small blind. Heads up, the two men watched a flop of {Q-Hearts} {7-Hearts} {A-Spades} roll out on board. Diep took the betting lead now, firing out 170,000 at the pot. Rybin didn't waste too much time making the call.

Fourth street came the {8-Diamonds}, and Diep slowly surrendered the lead with a check. Rybin stacked out 230,000 chips and slid them forward, Diep double-checked his cards, sent them into the muck, and the dealer shipped the pot over to Rybin.

Diep - 880,000

Tags: Alexey RybinGiuseppe Diep

Mohsen Tayfeh Eliminated in 16th Place (€35,000)

Mohsen Tayfeh - 15th place
Mohsen Tayfeh - 15th place
Mohsen Tayfeh raised to 115,000 in early position and it folded around to Mike Piper on the button.

"How much are you playing please?" he enquired of Tayfeh in a manner that suggested he meant business. 1.3 million at the start of the hand, was the answer. Piper reraised to 265,000.

Back to Tayfeh, who announced all in, and back to Piper, who announced call.

Tayfeh: {9-Clubs} {9-Spades}
Piper: {J-Clubs} {J-Hearts}

"Good luck," said Piper. "Jack ten eight flop."

"I'd rather take a nine," smiled Tayfeh, standing up.

Board: {7-Hearts} {K-Clubs} {7-Spades} {8-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}

With that we lose Mr. Tayfeh. Piper, already chip leader before the hand, is now huge chip leader on a little over 5 million.

Tags: Michael PiperMohsen Tayfeh

Cserei Wins An Almost 2 Million Pot

There's a four way flop between Jakob Carlsson, Alexey Rybin, Ramon Demon Cserei and Erik Tamm which gets checked to the turn of the {8-Clubs} {6-Clubs} {9-Clubs} {8-Spades} board.

Tamm leads out from the small blind for 250,000, Cserei and Rybin both made the call while Carlsson folds.

The river was the {2-Spades} and Tamm thought for a moment before betting 550,000. Cserei called and Rybin folded.

Tamm showed {9-?} {6-?} for a counterfeited two pair but Cserei turned over {K-Clubs} {3-Clubs} for a flopped flush to scoop an almost 2 million pot.

New Feature Table Seats (And Counts)

Seat 1 - Claudio Piceci - 1,690,000
Seat 2 - Erik Tamm - 3,540,000
Seat 3 - Ramon Demon Cserei - 2,470,000
Seat 4 - Alexey Rybin - 2,230,000
Seat 5 - Atanas Gueorguiev - 705,000
Seat 6 - Jacob Carlsson - 2,435,000
Seat 7 - Per Linde - 2,320,000
Seat 8 - Allan Bække - 2,450,000

New Non-Feature Table Seats (And Counts)

Seat 1 - Liv Boeree - 3,650,000
Seat 2 - Toni Pettersson - 2,620,000
Seat 3 - Michael Piper - 3,795,000
Seat 4 - Claudio Rinaldi - 1,740,000
Seat 5 - Dermot Blain - 1,630,000
Seat 6 - Dmitry Stelmak - 2,330,000
Seat 7 - Mohsen Tayfeh - 1,360,000
Seat 8 - Giuseppe Diep - 1,275,000

Short Pause

Don't go far, but there's a quick pause in the action while we take a table out of play and re-combine the field into the final two tables.

Tamm Sets Out His Stall

Erik Tamm was just moved across to one of the outer tables and into the big blind. He immediately started by 3-betting Claudio Piceci's open of 110,000 to 290,000.

Piceci called but then folded to a 275,000 bet on the {A-Clubs} {5-Diamonds} {2-Spades} flop.

Thang Duc Nguyen Eliminated in 18th Place (€30,000)

Thang Duc Nguyen - 18th Place
Thang Duc Nguyen - 18th Place
On the very next hand, Ramon Cserei opened the pot to 125,000, and Thang Duc Nguyen moved all in for 525,000 from the small blind. Cserei considered the decision carefully before making what was probably a must-call to put Nguyen at risk.

Showdown
Cserei: {A-Diamonds} {6-Spades}
Nguyen: {K-Hearts} {Q-Spades}

The {A-Spades} dropped right in the door, and the board of {9-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {A-Spades} {6-Spades} {8-Spades} is all she wrote for Nguyen.

With his elimination, only Allan Bække is in contention to win a second EPT title here this week.

Tags: Ramon CsereiThang Duc Nguyen