The dinner break is upon us. The players get 75 minutes to fill their stomachs, as are we.
2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Artem Metalidi |
143,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
Aku Joentausta |
104,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
John Haigh |
100,000
61,000
|
61,000 |
Piotr Shautsou |
93,000
39,700
|
39,700 |
Salvatore Manna
|
88,000 | |
Yordan Georgiev
|
87,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Adrian Mateos (Adrian Diaz)
|
86,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Cristiano Guerra | 86,000 | |
Vincenzo Scarcella |
80,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
Jesper Feddersen |
80,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
The Skrill Last Longer competition has been being held at each stop on this season’s EPT, of which they’re an official sponsor. The promotion is simple – players sign up for the promotion either online (preregistration is available) or at the Skrill booth (which will be present at each stop); don a Skrill patch; and then aim to be the last man or woman standing. The last player remaining will then receive their buy-in back via their Skrill account.
Here in Sanremo, 19 players have entered the Skrill Last Longer (see list below), which is slightly more than 10% of the total starting field. However, players can still sign up through the dinner break, so there's a chance that number will go up.
While Skrill is upping the ante for Season 10 with a bigger branding initiative, this isn’t their first appearance on the EPT; as a matter of fact, they were a sponsor of Season 8 and have held previous “Last Longer” promotions.
The company’s website provides a bit more information on Skrill, which rebranded from Moneybookers back in 2010:
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Headquartered in London, Skrill is looking to make their presence known in the poker world with a commitment to customer satisfaction through innovation and service. Not only that, they’re looking to be more than just a company by becoming a trusted and respected member of the poker community.
For more information on Skrill, click here.
Dzmitry Urbanovich | Jannick Wrang | Jorma Nuutinen | |
Antonio Buonanno | Gaetano Dell'aero | Olivier Ferrero | |
Paul-Francois Tedeschi | Carl Henriksson | Niclas Svensson | |
Enrico Mosca | Hugo Felix | Jan Bendik | |
Azad Jabrayilov | Viacheslav Igin | Vincenzo Scarcella | |
Vincenzo Scarpitti | Jesper Feddersen | Yordan Dimitrov | |
Davide Suriano |
In the end is was Vanessa Selbst who did for Kitty Kuo.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Kitty Kuo | Eliminado |
Nível: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Michael Gruber beat 238 players, who competed for shares of a €69,258 prize pool, and earned €11,050 after making a four-way deal. For the Austrian, this is his first victory in a live event, and definitely the highest prize he's won in a live event.
Others who cashed include Michael Eiler (29th - €610), Valeriy Chupin (21st - €750), Viacheslav Igin (15th - €1,020), and Hassan Fares (9th - €1,384).
Event #9 IPT Second Chance
Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool |
---|---|---|
€300+€30 | 238 | €69,258 |
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1st | Michael Gruber | Austria | €11,050* |
2nd | Sergei Popov | Russian Federation | €8,000* |
3rd | Danilo Colomba | Italy | €8,000* |
4th | Mirco Ferrini | Italy | €10,000* |
5th | Enrico Castaldi | Italy | €4,460 |
6th | Mayu Roca | Colombia | €3,390 |
7th | Marco Montruccoli | Italy | €2,500 |
8 | Sergey Frizyak | Russia | €1,810 |
The "Friend of PokerStars" returned from the dinner break with only 11,000 in chips and got that stack in via three-bet shove out of the big blind. Initial raiser Jordan Westmorland called with the and the German turned over the for the coin flip. The board ran out event less and Hof left the tournament area, not without telling her boyfriend Pius Heinz though.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Natalie Hof | Eliminado | |
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Prior to the EPT10 Sanremo Main Event, the Italian Poker Tour (IPT) kicked off their €700 buy-in Main Event, which attracted 1,124 players and created a prize pool of €763,196. That was distributed to the top 167 players, with over €100k reserved for the eventual winner. In the end, and thanks to a three-handed deal, it was Italy's Alessandro De Fenza that walked away with the trophy and a €105,600 first-place prize.
Among those who cashed were Tam Truong (166th - €1,220), Max Pescatori (160th - €1,220), Sergio Aido (158th - €1,220), Marcin Horecki (150th - €1,220), Alex Kravchenko (135th - €1,345), Casey Kastle (129th - €1,345), Vitaly Lunkin (107th - €1,500), Alessandro Basile (78th - €1,660), Andrea Dato (59th - €1,980), Kitty Kuo (34th - €2,800), Ben Yu (27th - €3,815), Pratik Ghatge (22nd - €4,550), and Franco Berlingieri (10th - €8,480).
UKIPT Marbella champion Ludovic Geilich, who won the Super Tuesday last week for a career best online cash of $101,325 and was fourth at EPT London, narrowly missed the final, finishing 11th for €8,480.
When the final nine, who were guaranteed at least €13,000, returned for the final day of play on Monday, Marcello Miniucchi was the chip leader; however, he faced some stiff competition including APPT Cebu champion Jae Kyung Sim, 2012 Swedish Champion Alexander Norden, World Poker Tour Venice runner-up Alex Longobardi, and Niccolo Ceccarelli, who had already won an event at the EPT Sanremo Poker Festival when he beat a 75-strong field to take down the €200 NL Turbo (Unlimited RB/AO) for €8,620. However, as you know, it was De Fenza who walked away the victor.
Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|
1st | Alessandro De Fenza | Italy | €105,600* |
2nd | Marcello Miniucchi | Korea | €95,600* |
3rd | Jae Kyung Sim | Italy | €75,000* |
4th | Alex Longobardi | Italy | €43,200 |
5th | Alex Norden | Sweden | €32,900 |
6th | Adel Kabbani | France | €24,200 |
7th | Alessandro Borsa | Italy | €18,300 |
8th | Fabio Scepi | Italy | €13,000 |
*Denotes three-handed deal
Adrian Mateos opened the action with a raise to 1400, one seat further Mats Sjoblom called and so did the small blind as well. On the flop the small blind check-folded, Mateos made the continuation bet and Sjoblom called the 3,300 to see the turn. Once again the Spaniard grabbed some chips and made it 6,800 before calling the min raise of his opponent to 13,600. Both players checked the river and Matos was first after the button to turn over for the busted nut flush draw, Sjoblom took down the pot with the .
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Adrian Mateos (Adrian Diaz)
|
68,000
-18,000
|
-18,000 |
Janno Cazemier opened for 1,100 and found callers in Marcin Wydrowski as well as the small blind and big blind Yury Salinaev. Four players saw the flop…
. The blinds checked and Cazemier continued with a bet of 2,625. Wydrowski made the call and the small blind folded. Salinaev now check raised to 6,300.
Cazemier sized up his options. He didn’t have many as he’d started the hand with under 20,000. He decided to move all in and when Wydrowski folded Salinaev made the call.
Salinaev turned over and had an up and down straight draw against the of Cazemier.
The turn and river gave Salinaev a winning two pair. Cazemier left the tournament and Salinaev was left to comment, “True runner runner.”
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Yury Salinaev
|
38,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
Janno Cazemier | Eliminado |