Main Event Dia 1a | The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

2012-04-25 16:44 UTC+2

Quads For Chouity

Nível 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

It was two years ago that the EPT was last here for its Grand Final and it is an event that Nicolas Chouity will remember well. The man from Lebanon withstood the pressure from 848 entries to win the first prize of €1,700,000 and here is is acting as if he never left.

We joined the action on a flop of {8-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} , Chouity had checked, Andries Swart had checked and a player in the cutoff had bet 2,400. The action fell back to Chouity and he made the call, before Swart check-raised to 7,000. The initial bettor folded but Chouity decided to draw a line in the sand and moved enough blue 5k chips into the middle to put Swart all-in. Swart made the call and it was a set versus the flush draw.

Chouity
Swart

The turn was the {A-Spades} and then the river {8-Spades} delivered quads for Chouity. Swart was sent packing and Chouity now has 80,000 chips.

Tags: Nicolas Chouity Andries Swart

2012-04-25 16:44 UTC+2

Will "The Thrill" Failla is Eliminated

Nível 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Will "The Thrill" Failla has been eliminated it the worse way possible. The table told us that Failla had flopped a set of tens in a three-bet pot and moments later was heading for the rail. The board paired on the turn, giving Failla a full house, while his opponent was holding pocket kings. A king on the river gave his opponent a higher full house and Failla was eliminated after calling off all of his chips when the last card was drawn.

"I can't take anymore of these beats," said the man with over $3.5 million in live tournament earnings to his name.

Tags: Will Failla

2012-04-25 16:45 UTC+2

EPT POY Leader: Ondrej Vinklarek

Nível 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

Earlier we reported on Roberto Romanello's exit and commented on how disappointed he would be with is exit, as he tried to gather points for the EPT Player of the Year race (the Welshman was lying in second place before his early exit). The man that Romanello is chasing is Ondrej Vinklarek and he is still alive and well. We just witnessed him doubling up with {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts} versus the {A-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} of Andrzej Siemieniak and he now has 72,000 chips.

Tags: Ondrej Vinklarek Andrzej Siemieniak

2012-04-25 16:45 UTC+2

Chip Counts

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
David Sands	100,000
Dragan Kostic	100,000
Nicolas Chouity	80,000

Martin Kabrhel	80,000 5,000	5,000
David Sonelin	78,000
Scott Seiver	71,000 2,000	2,000
David Peters	70,000
Talal Shakerchi	68,000
Marvin Rettenmaier	65,000
Kenny Hallaert	65,000
Dermot Blain	60,000 28,500	28,500
Andrew Chen	55,000 -10,000	-10,000
Freddy Deeb	55,000
Andrey Gulyy	55,000
Scott Baumstein	55,000
Guillaume Darcourt	55,000
Bryan Piccioli	53,000
Dieter Albrecht	53,000
Martin Staszko	52,000
Mike McDonald	50,000 20,000	20,000

Andrew Badecker	50,000
Pierre Neuville	49,000
Paul Berende	48,000
Kevin Vandersmissen	47,000 17,000	17,000
Jason Wheeler	45,000

Leia tudo

2012-04-25 16:46 UTC+2

Break Time

Nível 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

The players have reached their second break of the day. Pokernews will be back in twenty minutes time.

Nível: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

2012-04-25 17:34 UTC+2

A Few Missing Chip Counts, and a Few Bust Outs

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Walid Bou-Habib	41,000 -10,000	-10,000
Pratyush Buddiga	36,000 6,000	6,000
Jason Somerville	32,200 2,200	2,200
Taylor Paur	11,600 -17,400	-17,400
Kevin Bromfield	Eliminado
Marko Neumann	Eliminado
Georgios Karakousis	Eliminado
Ankush Mandavia	Eliminado
Christopher Lovett	Eliminado
Benjamin Gann	Eliminado
Alan Claes Hvedehave Nielsen	Eliminado
Paulino Subtil	Eliminado
Igor Kurganov	Eliminado

2012-04-25 17:48 UTC+2

Three Barrels For Chen

The action folded around to Andrew Chen, in the small blind, and he raised to 800. Ankush Mandavia was seated in the big blind and he made the call.

Flop: {9-Hearts} {7-Spades} {4-Diamonds}

Chen bet 900 and Mandavia called.

Turn: {K-Diamonds}

Chen bet 2,200 and Mandavia called.

River: {7-Diamonds}

Chen fired his third barrel of 5,250 and Mandavia called once more. Chen turned over {K-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} and it was good as Mandavia mucked his hand unseen.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Andrew Chen	70,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: Andrew Chen Ankush Mandavia

2012-04-25 17:51 UTC+2

Ivey On The River

Andrew Chen raised to 600 on the button and Phil Ivey called in the big blind. The pair were soon staring at a flop of {8-Spades} {4-Hearts} {2-Spades} where Ivey check-called a 800 Chen bet. The turn of {6-Hearts} was checked through, and then Ivey bet 2,000 when he saw the river {2-Clubs} . Chen mucked his hand and Ivey won the pot.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Andrew Chen	68,600 -1,400	-1,400
Phil Ivey	26,000

Tags: Phil Ivey Andrew Chen

2012-04-25 17:54 UTC+2

Short Ones

George Danzer lost more than two-thirds of his stack in the first level. He's re-building, slowly. We caught the Team PokerStars Pro opening to 700 from the hijack and continuing for 800 on a flop. A player on the button called but folded on the flop.
Dermot Blain doubled up Roger Suter after putting him to the test for his tournament life. The two were heads up to the turn where the board read . Blain had 20,000 out in front of him to cover the 17,800 Suter had behind. The Swiss tanked for a two minutes and called with and was up against Blain's . The river came and Blaina handed over the necessary chips
Talal Shakerchi has been moved tables and has dropped a few chips. He may be 100k down after going from chip leader to out in the Super High-Roller but he seems to be reveling in his environment away from his stress full day job as a hedge fund manager.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Talal Shakerchi	42,000 -26,000	-26,000
Dermot Blain	25,800 -34,200	-34,200
George Danzer	14,000 -14,000	-14,000