EPT San Remo 2012 thread

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Jason Tompkins is the man to beat heading into the penultimate day of the PokerStars EPT San Remo Main Event. The Irishman returns with a stack of 2,432,000 chips, largely thanks to what he described on Twitter as the 'sickest hand ever'.

Tompkins got all his chips in the middle with pocket eights on an 8-5-4-3 board but needed help against Amerigo Santoro who had turned a wheel. A 3 on the river paired the board to give the Irishman a full house and with it a huge 2m plus pot.

Familiar faces still in the hunt for the €800,000 first prize include Ludovic Lacay (3rd 1,731,000), WPT Grand Prix de Paris winner Matt Salsberg (12th 783,000) and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (18th 533,000).

The final two dozen is a Brit free zone after the elimination yesterday of Roberto Romanello and David Vamplew. Other notables to hit the rail yesterday were recent WSOPE High Roller winner Mike Watson, Shaun Deeb, Justin Bonomo and Ike Haxton.

The action resumes at 2pm local time (1pm in the UK) with the blinds at 12,000/24,000 with an ante of 3,000. The average stack size is just short of 1m.

Jason Tompkins - 2,423,000
Inge Forsmo - 2,025,000
Ludovic Lacay - 1,731,000
Negjdet Avdylaj - 1,702,000
Angelo Recchia - 1,700,000
Jonas Mackoff - 1,691,000
Iulian Ruxandescu - 1,218,000
Jason Lavallee - 1,066,000
Micah Raskin - 1,042,000
Adrian Piasecki - 1,000,000
Amerigo Santoro - 1,000,000
Matt Salsberg - 783,000
Alberto Musini - 768,000
Michael Benvenuti - 760,000
Giuseppe Cefali - 715,000
Carmelo Vasta - 632,000
Ismael Bojang - 619,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 533,000
Imed Mahmoud - 510,000
Michele Di Lauro - 467,000
Artem Litvinov - 458,000
Thomas Gabriel - 342,000
Andrea Furlanetto - 293,000
Charly Maracchione - 260,000

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Seat   Player
1   Ludovic Lacay
2   Jason Tompkins
3   Adrian Piasecki
4   Micah Raskin
5   Amerigo Santoro
6   Jason Lavallee
7   Ismael Bojang
8   Angelo Recchia
9   Artem Litvinov

Jason Lavallee   5545000      
Ludovic Lacay   5366000      
Jason Tompkins 3605000      
Ismael Bojang   2845000      
Adrian Piasecki   2045000   
Angelo Recchia   1755000      
Micah Raskin   1550000      
Artem Litvinov   800000

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One week ago, the European Poker Tour Sanremo, the second stop on the Season 9 schedule, kicked off with 797 players each putting up €5,300 to battle it out for poker supremacy at the Main Event. It was a long seven days of play, but in the end Ludovic Lacay captured the title, the €744,910 first-place prize, and a brand-new Shamballa Jewels bracelet.


After Litvinov was bounced in third place, Lacay and Lavallee, the two biggest stacks at the start of the day, engaged in heads-up play with the former holding a nearly 2-to-1 chip lead.

It was at that point the two struck a deal — Lacay locked up €644,910 while Lavallee guaranteed himself €538,089, which meant they were playing for €100,000 on the side.

EPT9 Sanremo Final Table Results

Place   Player   Country   Prize
1st   Ludovic Lacay   France   €744,910*
2nd   Jason Lavallee   Canada   €538,089*
3rd   Artem Litvinov   Russia   €283,000
4th   Angelo Recchia   Italy   €225,000
5th   Jason Tompkins   Ireland   €171,000
6th   Micah Raskin   United States   €132,000
7th   Adrian Piasecki   Poland   €96,000
8th   Ismael Bojang   Germany   €65,450



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