That was a rather short day at the office for Vanessa Selbst. She raised from under the gun and then four-bet jammed into the three-bet of Steve O'Dwyer. The EPT9 Grand Final champion snapped her off with pocket aces and Selbst stood no chance with on a dry board.
First Ismail Erkenov chopped an all in preflop pot with the against the of David Vamplew.
The next hand he moved all in again for 86,000 and Griffin Benger made the call one seat over. Ole Schemion in the big blind folded the and it was time for another showdown:
Erkenov:
Benger:
The board delivered one of the two remaining fives in the deck for the Russian and he can take his seat again.
The 2014 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event played down to a final table today, as did the €10,300 High Roller. The last €10K buy-in High Roller of the season attracted two late reentries, which brought the field up to 105 entries (88 unique/17 reentries) and created a prize pool of €1,029,000. The top 15 would make the money, with the eventual winner taking home €265,000.
After nine one-hour levels of play on Day 2, the field was whittled down to the final table of eight. The man best positioned to make a run at the top prize is Philip Sternheimer, who is the chip leader with 938,000. That said, he faces some stiff competition that includes Griffin Benger (892,000) and Ole Schemion (831,000).
As previously mentioned, just two players opted to reenter before the start of play – Olivier Busquet and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst. The latter was eager to amass some EPT10 Player of the Year points, but it proved a quick and fruitless endeavor.
Sekularac was eliminated in Level 17 (4,000/8,000/1,000) when he was all in and at risk for 96,000 with the and Sternheimer made a reluctant call with the . The flop kept the Serbian in the lead, but then the appeared on the turn. No jack on the river and Sekularac was out in 16th place with nothing to show for it.
The third and final day will kick off at 12 p.m. local time on Sunday and the remaining eight players will play down to a winner. The the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to capture the action in both the High Roller and the Main Event.
Join us then, but while you wait be sure to check out this video where your favorite pros explain what they do to prepare for the day: