Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,862,400
Entries
384
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
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Another river bet and another big call for a large proportion of his stack - this time Marcin Horecki with the decision on a 
board. Konsta Vesterinen had bet out 6,600 and the table fell (ever so briefly) silent while the Polish Team Pokerstars Pro thought about it. Eventually he called, but mucked when Vesterinen showed 
.
A millisecond later Antonio Esfandiari to Matt Widdoes/Marcin Horecki: "So how much to not shave for one year. Not trim, shave, any part of your body..." I think this might be a day-long game of Lodden Says, as Widdoes continued to talk while Horecki made a private note on a piece of paper, folded it and left it on the table, with a smile - clearly not overly disturbed by his loss on the previous hand. These two have been chatting each other up mini-prop-bet style all day long, and will probably only stop when they're made to exit the tournament room. Perhaps not even then, and they'll be back on Day Two trading the same oft-wagered hundred dollar bills back and forth.
Team PokerStars Pro Juan Maceiras has been crippled by Toby Lewis after the latter pushed all-in on the turn of a 
board. Maceiras made a quick call with 
against Lewis' 
but the river was the 
, Maceiras made a set but Lewis rivered the nut straight to double up to around 75,000.
Afterwards James Dempsey said in typical cutting fashion, "When I grow up, I wanna run like Toby Lewis...I don't wanna play like him though, I'd be skint."
EPT media doyenne Mad Harper shared a fun little story about Dan Heimiller, the man who made two WSOP final tables this summer and bubbled a third. She told it so well we thought we'd present it to you as it was presented to us:
"Dan Heimiller update.. i met him in the car park about an hour ago. he was wandering back to the casino.. not in a huge hurry. Are you out, I said. No, he said.. but I have so many chips I thought I would just go back to the hotel to bet on my baseball game. At the time he had about 70k. feel free to use this super-cool story."
Thank you, Mad.
Ludovic Lacay is down to under 20k it looks like now, after paying off a Henrique Pinho river value bet. 8,500 was the amount, which Pinho bet out on the river of a 
...
...
board. Lacay thought for a long while before counting out the call, looking at it and his stack and then finally making it, but mucking when he saw the 
in his opponent's hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
137,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
||
|
131,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
||
|
105,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
|
||
|
100,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
80,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
70,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
69,000
-15,500
|
-15,500 |
|
||
|
66,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
57,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
52,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
44,000
12,800
|
12,800 |
|
|
||
|
42,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
|
||
|
37,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
||
|
32,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
29,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
||
|
27,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
24,000
2,500
|
2,500 |
|
21,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
21,000
-27,000
|
-27,000 |
|
|
||
|
18,200
-2,300
|
-2,300 |
|
14,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
10,500
-4,250
|
-4,250 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
Nursing a short stack for most of the last level - in fact not really having appeared to progress upwards chipwise today - Barny Boatman has been eliminated, his final race being one of two hands: 
or 
, which were being swept into the muck as his neighbour became the beneficiary of the rest of his chips. Walking slowly away, he simply remarked, "I'm gone," to a friend at a nearby table before making his way out into, probably, the lovely early evening sunshine.
One problem with this system is that we mainly manage to catch smokers. Non-smokers: please also come outside during the breaks. Thank you.
Allan Bække may not have the largest stack in the room but he's still wielding it aggressively - especially against those even shorter than he is... Just now he raised to 1,500 under the gun, and found Alexander Kovzhenko upping it to 4,200 in mid position. It passed back round to Bække who asked his opponent how much more he had, before throwing in around 20k total which covered him. Facing this four-bet, Kovshenko thought for a while then gave up on the hand.
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50