Rules are rules. Even if they may appear very cruel under specific circumstances.
In the first hand we saw a raise from under the gun to 1,000 and three players called. On the flop the initial raiser, Pierluigi Giglio, continued for 2,600 and only the small blind, Claudio Piceci, called. Giglio fired again after the turn for 7,125 and Piceci check-called. The river completed the board and Giglio now made an over bet for 26,025 to get a very quick check-call from his opponent. Giglio showed the and was good. Piceci had 10,000 left.
One hand later there was an open raise to 1,025, the cutoff and Piceci on the button called, and three players saw the flop. Piceci got his stack in with and got looked up by Patrick Naxache with . The turn changed nothing, but the river left Naxache with just 325 chips. The table was broke right after that hand, the Frenchman shrugged and was told by the floorman to put his chips in the rack before going to his new table.
Niels van Leeuwen raised to 1,050 and Michael Tabarelli made it 2,500 to go. Kevin MacPhee called that and then van Leeuwen moved all in for slightly more than 23,000. Tabarelli asked for a count and then called before MacPhee folded.
"Do you have Kings?" asked the Italian.
"Nah. Only ace queen," replied his opponent.
"Oh well, that is good," Tabarelli followed up and then turned over the . Van Leeuwen had the and was unable to improve as the board ran out .
Talkative Michael Telker has been building a stack since we last caught up with him. Chris Oliver’s stack has been going the other way. Telker was under-the-gun and bet 1,200 saying “Alright let’s see a flop.” No one wanted to see a flop with him and even big blind Oliver folded.
On the next hand Liwei Sun opened for 1,100 and Telker was the only caller in the big blind. There was little action until the river when Telker bet 4,200 and Sun made the call only to find Telker had flopped a straight with . Telker turned to Oliver and said, “You’re not supposed to say bink when I actually bink on the flop!”
Paul Berende has been having a good day so far. Not too long ago he made an over bet on the river and got paid.
Berende told us that Nicolino Di Carlo had raised it up to 1,025 from the hijack position. Berende in the cutoff, having a deep stack like his neighbor, flatted with deuces. All other players folded and they were heads up to the flop.
with two diamonds. Di Carlo made a 1,400 continuation bet and Berende just flatted. The hit the turn and Di Carlo now bet 2,200. Berende again just called and saw a river; . Di Carlo checked and Berende bet 11,000.
Di Carlo made the call holding a small flush, but mucked as Berende showed his full house.
Antonio Bernaudo had raised a bet from [Removed:17] to 6,700. Yan went in the tank for a bit before re-raising Bernaudo and they got it all in preflop. Bernaudo was distraught to see that his was in big trouble against the of Yan.
The cards fell and Bernaudo was out with the calls of, “Nice hand.” to Yan ringing in his ears.
He was once Spain’s best hope to become a first Spanish EPT winner and in many ways Raul Mestre still is. He may not play the tour as often as he would like, but then, as Mestre puts it, that’s no bad thing. For the only thing better than playing poker is talking about it, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Yann Dion and Jeffrey Hakim were looking at a flop of . Dion made a bet of 5,000 and Hakim made a chunky raise. Dion moved the rest of his chips across the line and was snapped off by Hakim.
Dion had been plugging away all day but now his was up against the of Hakim.
“You have me covered right?” Dion asked. He did but it was close as they both had around 34,000.
The turn and river spelled the end for Dion’s EPT Sanremo run.
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flop the initial raiser, Pierluigi Giglio, continued for 2,600 and only the small blind, Claudio Piceci, called. Giglio fired again after the 
turn for 7,125 and Piceci check-called. The 
river completed the board and Giglio now made an over bet for 26,025 to get a very quick check-call from his opponent. Giglio showed the 
and was good. Piceci had 10,000 left.
flop. Piceci got his stack in with 
and got looked up by Patrick Naxache with 
. The 
turn changed nothing, but the 
river left Naxache with just 325 chips. The table was broke right after that hand, the Frenchman shrugged and was told by the floorman to put his chips in the rack before going to his new table.
. Van Leeuwen had the 
.
with two diamonds. Di Carlo made a 1,400 continuation bet and Berende just flatted. The 
and Bernaudo was out with the calls of, “Nice hand.” to Yan ringing in his ears.![[Removed:17]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
was up against the 
spelled the end for Dion’s EPT Sanremo run.
