Welsh Wizard Roberto Romanello was a short stack for much of the middle part of Day1b but managed to run it up to finish the day on 73,700. He seems to have run into some misfortune today though and is again left nursing a short stack once again.
Here he raised to 2,500 and was called in the big blind by the creative and dangerous circuit regular German Dominik Nitsche. They saw a flop of and both players checked.
The turn card was the and Nitsche, who had the stack to put the pressure on, did justthat with a bet of 4,500. Romanello checked his cards and his stack before making the fold.
Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren talks to us on the first break of EPT10 Sanremo Day 2. She talks about her start thus far, numbers, and beans on toast.
Even Mikkelsen moved all in for 17,000 and found one caller in Andreas Goeller from Germany. Mikkelsen looked in good shape when he flipped over against the of Goeller but by the river he was shaking his head in disbelief.
was the final result. Quads for Goeller and the exit door for Mikkelsen.
On the next hand Gaelle Baumann opened for 2,500 and got two callers including Goeller in the cutoff and Krzysztof Dulowski in the big blind.
They saw a flop of and it was checked to Baumann who continued for 4,200. Goeller called and Dulowski folded. The turn card was the and when Baumann checked Goeller bet 5,200 and sat back crossing his arms and glared at her.
Baumann made the fold and some more chips were added to Goeller’s growing stack.
As mentioned before, Ronan Monfort could have done with a double up similar to Christian Favale and he just did that. From under the gun he moved all-in for 20 big blinds with pocket tens and the small blind called with eights.
Shortly after Christian Favale doubled up again, his victim was the same as before. We joined the action on the turn where Favale bet 4,000 and called the raise to 8,400 from Martic Andrija. On the river Favale moved all in for 17,800 into a pot of 25,000 and Martic leveled himself into a call with queen high. Favale showed the for another double up.
We saw Tam Truong lingering on the rail, and he was kind enough to inform us of the details surrounding his demise. According to him, he got his last 15 big blinds all in preflop holding against an opponent who held [10x10x. Truong explained this particular opponent had shoved on him earlier, so he was hoping to be racing in the worst case scenario. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and he failed to find a third seven.
Paul Berende opened the action from the button and the small blind moved all in for 30,900. Berende tank called with the and Dori Yacoub from Lebanon turned over the . "I just shoved any ace because you opened the button," Yacoub added. The board gave him trips and Berende almost lost one third of his stack.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy, who finished runner-up to Vanessa Selbst in last years $25,000 High Roller at the PCA for $792,180, has just been eliminated from the tournament. Troyanovskiy has never seen the river, and has never witnessed that his stack was just nearly covered by his opponent.
In a button versus big blind situation Troyanovskiy and Mitch Johnson got all of their chips in before the flop. Johnson, who was on the button, held and was up against Troyanovskiy's .
The flop came . By the time the dealer had the on the table Troyanovskiy had already left the tournament area. He never saw the .
The dealer started counting the chips and came to the conclusion that Johnson had slightly more chips than Troyanovskiy. The Russian player is out, the Brit is now one of the bigger stacks in the room.
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and both players checked.
and Nitsche, who had the stack to put the pressure on, did justthat with a bet of 4,500. Romanello checked his cards and his stack before making the fold.
against the 
of Goeller but by the river he was shaking his head in disbelief.
was the final result. Quads for Goeller and the exit door for Mikkelsen.
and it was checked to Baumann who continued for 4,200. Goeller called and Dulowski folded. The turn card was the 
and when Baumann checked Goeller bet 5,200 and sat back crossing his arms and glared at her.
river Favale moved all in for 17,800 into a pot of 25,000 and Martic leveled himself into a call with queen high. Favale showed the 
for another double up.
. "I just shoved any ace because you opened the button," Yacoub added. The 
. By the time the dealer had the 
on the table Troyanovskiy had already left the tournament area. He never saw the 
.
