€4,900 Main Event
Dia 6 Iniciado
2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo
€4,900 Main Event
Dias: 6
Seat 8: Andrija Martic, 25, Slavonski Brod Croatia – PokerStars player – 1,660,000 chips
Andrija Martic is a 25-year-old professional poker player who battles online at PokerStars under the name “cynicalfish”. Martic, who usually focuses on six-max sit-and-gos (buy-ins of $60+), might be best known for winning a Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) title last year for $96,931.62, but has also final tabled the Sunday Million and won a Sunday $109 rebuy.
Tomorrow will be the first time he’s missed the big Sunday tournaments in two years, but he’s got good reason to skip them.“When I was second of 39 (players remaining) with a big chip lead I knew it wasn’t impossible to make the final table,” said Martic. As a player who’s reached Supernova status focusing on sit-and-gos, Martic is a very real threat and is certainly in with a shout to become the first-ever Croatian EPT champion. His live results total $10,294 and include a cash in last season’s EPT Berlin Cup.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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1,660,000 |
Seat 7: Vicky Coren-Michtell, 40, London, UK – Team PokerStars Pro - 910,000 chips
When Vicky Coren-Michtell won EPT London in 2006, she was already well-known to poker fans for her appearances on the mould-breaking Late Night Poker show on Channel 4. She became the EPT’s first female EPT champion on home turf – at her local casino “The Vic” in the heart of London – for a massive £500.000 payday. However for many in the UK, she was (and still is) better known as a writer, TV presenter and journalist. The multi-talented Coren-Michtell – who married British comedian David Mitchell last summer – has a huge fan base (250,000 twitter followers) and is now aspiring to make history as the EPT’s first ever double champion. Her last big result before today was also in London when she finished sixth in the EPT8 London High Roller for £67,130; this season she was 20th in the same event. She also won the EPT8 Grand Final €5k Heads-Up tourney in 2012 for €58,900. Her live tournament winnings are now close to $1.8 million.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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910,000 |
Seat 6: Andrea Benelli, 32, Prato, Tuscany, Italy - 2,085,000 chips
Andrea Benelli was one of the first Italians to make an impact on the European Poker Tour when he made the final of EPT Deauville in Season 5. That appearance was actually the third of four consecutive Main Event cashes, kicking off in London, then Warsaw, Deauville and finally Copenhagen (for a total of almost €300,000).He then followed it up with a deep run in an EPT Dortmund €2k side event a month later. He heads into the final fourth in chips with 2,05,000. He has already cashed twice in Sanremo earlier this month, in the IPT High Roller and in the IPT Main Event, and is now guaranteed at least €53,100 in the Main Event, a sum which will take him comfortably over the $1 million mark in live tournament winnings. His results include victory in the IPT Pro League in 2010, for a €72,000 prize. His favourite player is Phil Ivey and his favourite game is cash games.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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2,085,000 |
Seat 5: Andreas Goeller, 31, South Tyrol, Italy - 2,320,000 chips
Although Goeller has a Teutonic-sounding name and speaks German, he’s actually from the South Tyrol region in the Alps. He only has one recorded live cash to his name: winning a €270 satellite at the Torneo de Poker Nova Gorica 2010 for €2,200. Goeller, a CEO in an insurance company, competed at both EPT Berlin and Madrid but this is his first cash. He's been playing poker for three-four years but only as a hobby. His girlfriend also played the main event but busted early and has been loyally railing him every since.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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2,320,000 |
Seat 4: Bruno “falchetto777” Stefanelli, 47, Scorrano, Italy – Live satellite winner - 1,335,000 chips
Stefanelli started playing poker in 1998 and was a Full Tilt Pro in 2007. The 47-year-old came to Sanremo with his friends Alessandro De Iaco and Gaetano Preite who’ve both had a fruitful time here. De Iaco, who won the Sunday Special High Roller last Sunday for €50,625, cashed in the IPT Sanremo Main Event and Preite was the IPT High Roller champion for €77,800. After Sanremo, all three will head to Monaco for the last stop of EPT Season 10. Bruno, a keen hunter and fisherman, has lifetime tournament winnings of nearly $340,000, his best live cash before now being $65,670. Here in Sanremo, he’s guaranteed at least €53,100.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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1,335,000 |
Seat 3: Emmanuel Pariset, 34, France - 1,940,000 chips
Emmanuel Pariset, a recreational player who is the manager of a business consultancy, began playing poker online in 2006 and soon after qualified for a small tournament in Edinburgh — at which point he immediately told his friends that he would become the World Champion by the age of 35. Despite the seemingly impossible ambition, and a couple of years out of poker, Pariset has applied himself to the game again recently and is assured the biggest win of his career (at least €53,100) for reaching the final table in Sanremo. It now gives him the bankroll to go to Las Vegas this summer and complete his journey to the top of the world. Typically Pariset is a cash game player — he is a regular at the Aviation Club in Paris — and he has been rewarded for his patience in this tournament. He was a short stack approaching the bubble, at which point he told the media that he was still confident of reaching the final, and has kept his promise after two days of tenacious grinding and a couple of big hands.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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1,940,000 |
Seat 2: Giacomo Fundaro, 27, Italy – 3,100,000 chips
Giacomo is a an Italian pro who’s been playing poker for nearly six years, with numerous big cashes amounting in total to more than $650,000 in lifetime tournament winnings. He was the 2012 WPT El Jadida champion for $166,704, and runner-up the following year at WPT St.Maarten, when he cashed for $100,000. He has finished in the money in five IPTs including fifth in San Marino in 2010 for $37,000. His best EPT result before now was 27th at EPT8 Sanremo for €16,000. During today, Fundaro noticed that every time he took a sip of his Coke or Fanta, he won the next showdown - so he plans to continue the “strategy” at tomorrow’s final.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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3,100,000 |
Seat 1: Jordan Westmorland, 23, Seattle, USA (living in Gold Coast, Australia) - PokerStars qualifier - 3,330,000 chips
Having been displaced from his native United States after Black Friday, Jordan "JWPRODIGY" Westmorland moved to Thailand and then to the Gold Coast in Australia to continue playing online. It's been a profitable few years for Westmorland, who complemented his online play with regular visits to events in Macau, as well as tournaments on the APPT, ANZPT and WSOP APAC. But his live tournament cashes of $165,000 are dwarfed by his online results, now totalling close to $2m, including a triumph in the PokerStars Super Tuesday last August. Despite his globetrotting, this is his first visit to the EPT — and it's been a breeze. He has been chip-leader for the past two days and takes a commanding stack to the final. Whatever happens, however, he won't be able to extend the trip to Europe as he is due back in Australia for back-to-back weddings of close friends on the next two Saturdays. He won his trip to Sanremo in a PokerStars €530 qualifier.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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3,330,000 |
Who Will Take Down The Title?
It's final table day here at the PokerStars.it European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event. Eight players are still in contention for that first prize of €476,100.
The final table will start at noon local time (in one hour). As there will be a live stream with hole cards, the coverage will begin on an hour delay. So get your refreshing finger ready as from 1 pm local time PokerNews will again supply you with all the coverage you can ask for. We'll recap the action you see on the live stream, bring you the best photos and the video team will try to talk to the players on their way to that coveted title.
Jordan Westmorland is the man to beat today as he starts the day with more chips than anyone; 3,330,000. That's 83 big blinds as we'll kick of the action with blind level 26 (20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante). Westmorland is seated in seat 1 and will start the day as the chip leader. He's out of position against the number two in chips though, local hero Giacomo Fundaro is in seat two with 3,100,000.
Emmanuel Pariset showed no other move than to just open push for the last two days. Will he show us he knows some other tricks to? Can Vicky Coren-Mitchell become the first two time EPT champion? Can an Italian win a title again after Salvatore Bonavena back in Prague Season 5? Those questions and more we'll see answered today.
| Seat | Player | Nationality | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan Westmorland | USA | 3,330,000 |
| 2 | Giacomo Fundaro | Italy | 3,100,000 |
| 3 | Emmanuel Pariset | France | 1,940,000 |
| 4 | Bruno Stefanelli | Italy | 1,335,000 |
| 5 | Andreas Goeller | Italy | 2,320,000 |
| 6 | Andrea Benelli | Italy | 2,085,000 |
| 7 | Vicky Coren-Mitchell | UK | 910,000 |
| 8 | Andrija Martic | Croatia | 1,660,000 |
| Position | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 | €476,100 |
| 2 | €298,700 |
| 3 | €213,850 |
| 4 | €166,700 |
| 5 | €130,750 |
| 6 | €102,700 |
| 7 | €76,650 |
| 8 | €53,100 |
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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3,330,000 | |
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3,100,000 | |
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2,320,000 | |
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2,085,000 | |
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1,940,000 | |
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1,660,000 | |
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1,335,000 | |
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910,000 |