Nguyen is left with just about ten big blinds with which to wage some short-stack war.
2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo
Main Event
Day: 5
Nguyen is left with just about ten big blinds with which to wage some short-stack war.
Liv Boeree - 2,800,000
Toni Pettersson - 2,200,000
Dermot Blain - 2,000,000
Dmitry Stelmak - 2,750,000
Mohsen Tayfeh - 1,500,000
Giuseppe Diep - 1,250,000
Michael Piper - 3,600,000
Claudio Rinaldi - 1,500,000
Erik Tamm - 3,600,000
Atanas Gueorguiev - 550,000
Per Linde - 2,400,000
Claudio Piceci - 1,800,000
The next hand, he raised under the gun to 175,000. Again, everyone passed and he nudged his stack up to a little over 700,000.
The hand after that, with Karabulut in the big blind, Michael Piper opened for 110,000 from the button. Karabulut pushed, and Piper insta-called.
Karabulut:
Piper:
"Good luck," said Piper, and then to the dealer, "ace ten jack." We suspect he did not mean this.
Flop:
Piper: "Ace on the turn."
Turn:
Piper: "You got a sweat."
River:
Karabulut: out.
Diep squirmed for a while, holding his big headphones tight over his ears to block out the gentle murmur of the tournament area, and eventually gave it up.
Berende:
Cserei:
Board:
Berende has doubled through and almost tripled up as a result.
Level: 26
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
Back in 15.