2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo

€4,900 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo

Final Results
Winner
Vicky Coren Mitchell
Winning Hand
qj
Prize
€476,100
Event Info
Buy-in
€4,600
Prize Pool
€2,480,872
Entries
556
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000

Action Dion

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Every time we pass his table it seems Yann Dion is in a hand. This time he had got to the river against Adel Kabbani on a board showing {6-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{3-Hearts}. Kabbani bet out 3,000 into a pot of 6,400.

Dion studied the board for 30 seconds and made a raise to 5,300. Kabbani made the call and Dion flipped over his {8-Diamonds}{3-Spades} for a rivered full house. The pot was pushed his way and Kabbani uttered the immortal phrase, “Nice hand.”

Despite, or maybe because of the number of hands he has been involved in, Dion hasn’t greatly altered from his starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
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Yann Dion
33,000
3,000
3,000

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Johnson Takes An Early Hit

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Mitchell Johnson has just been reduced to half starting stack after three-betting preflop and then calling a four-bet to 2,900 along with two other players. The {6-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} flop was checked around, on the {4-Hearts} turn his Italian table neighbor check-raised him and only the Brit proceeded to the river. Once the {A-Clubs} fell, the Italian bet 10,100 and Johnson tank called to get shown the {K-Hearts}{A-Diamonds}.

Player Chips Progress
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Mitchell Johnson
15,000
-15,000
-15,000

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New Tournament, New Book

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Timo Pfutzenreuter, who finished fifth in Vienna for €203,900 just two weeks ago, is reading again. Well he's not actually reading, but he does have a book in front of him. Last time around he was seen with the book 'The Wolf of Wall Street'. This time it's Slam by Nick Hornby.

Just now he went to battle with EPT Deauville third place finisher Oliver Price.

Price opened pre flop and Pfutzenreuter made the call. On a {3-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{4-Spades} flop Price made a continuation bet. Pfutzenreuter raised and Price made the call. The turn brought the {9-Spades} to the table and Price check-called another bet. The river was the {K-Hearts} and Price checked again. Pfutzenreuter bet out 4,800 and action switched back to Price. The British player announced all in and it was up to Pfutzenreuter to decide. Pfutzenreuter folded and continued with a much smaller stack.

Player Chips Progress
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Oliver Price
37,000
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Timo Pfutzenreuter
23,000
-7,000
-7,000

Tags: Oliver PriceTimo Pfutzenreuter

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Busquet Busts Trebbi

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Well that escalated quickly! It's only Level 1 and we lost our first player in Ginaluca Trebbi.

After a raise to 300 and three callers, Olivier Busquet made it 1,600 in the big blind. Still three players call to see the {J-}{6-}{3-} flop with two clubs. Busquet continued for 2,500 and only Trebbi made the call to see the {9-Clubs} turn. Another 6,000 from Busqet was called before the {J-} on the river delivered quads for the high stakes pro. He moved all in for 20,000 and Trebbi tank-called to discover the bad news.

The dealer rushed his cards away rather quickly but players at the table said he held {8-Clubs}{6-Clubs} for the flush.

Player Chips Progress
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Olivier Busquet
65,000
65,000
65,000
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Gianluca Trebbi
Busted

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Three Amigos

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

On Table 13 Paul Berende in the one seat, Govert Metaal in the two seat and Rasmus Nielsen in the three seat are as thick as thieves this first level. Berende has been trying to persuade Metaal that Nielsen is a maniac and Metaal has been insisting that he himself will only play premium hands.

When Nielsen gets a fold on the flop from another player Metaal asks him to show ace queen or aces on the queen high flop, Nielsen does indeed show {a-}{a-}. A few hands later it was Metaal who got a fold by betting on the river and showing {j-}{7-} for a bluff.

“Just a small bluff on the first level.” Metaal insisted.

Gaetano Preite Wins €2,000 IPT High Roller

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Italian pro Gaetano Preite beat EPT Kyiv runner-up Alex Dovzhenko heads up to take down the €2,000 Italian Poker Tour High Roller on Monday night for a €77,800 first prize. There were 181 entries in the event creating €351,140 prize pool divvied up between 27 players in all. Here's a look at the final table results:

Gaetone Preite

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1stGaetone PreiteItaly€77,800
2ndAlex DovzhenkoRussia€52,500
3rdOlivier BusquetUSA€36,140
4thAleksandr GofmanRussia€29,450
5thMatthieu LamagnereFrance€23,500
6thJuri MereuItaly€18,100
7thArtur KorenGermany€13,200
8thOlvedo HeinzeNetherlands€9,500
9thTom HallUK€7,900

Koren Runs Into Aces

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Artur Koren registered about 10 minutes ago and sat down on his new table only to drop about 5,000 in chips rather quickly. He opened the action with a raise to 300, Vitaliy Lunkin called and the player in seat 9 reraised to 1,125 - call from both opponents. On the {K-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{7-Hearts} flop the three-bettor made it 1,300 and only Koren called, both then checked the {5-Hearts} turn. Koren proceeded to check-call 2,600 on the {10-Spades} river and mucked when shown {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
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Artur Koren
25,000
-5,000
-5,000

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King(s) Versus Queen(s)

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante
Dan Murariu
Dan Murariu

Just now we saw Dan Murariu check-call a 1,200 bet on {7-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{4-Hearts}. We missed the flop and pre flop action but the pot wasn't all that big, so both players took it easy.

The river was the {5-Diamonds} which made for a four-card straight and three-card flush on the board. Dan Murariu checked his big blind and Sveva Libralesso quickly checked behind from the button.

Murariu showed {K-Clubs}{K-Hearts} and Libralesso mucked her {Q-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}.

Player Chips Progress
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Dan Murariu
33,000
3,000
3,000
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Sveva Libralesso
27,000
27,000
27,000

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