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EPT San Remo Final Table report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2009-04-25 03:33
1,178 players started the European Poker Tour’s San Remo Main Event and when it was all said and done and the dust settled in the wake of 5 days of rabid poker action it was the Netherlands’ Constant Rijkenberg who stood triumphant.
Croatian Dragan Galic, who dominated the fist 4 days of the event in a manner bordering on ridiculous, was eliminated too, and so were the other final table contestants.
The first victim of the final table was Danilo D’Ettoris, eliminated by none other than the eventual winner: Rijkenberg. The two of them went to war on a coin-flip with D’Ettoris holding A,Qo and Rijkenberg a pair of 4s. The board bricked out on D’Ettoris though, and he was done in 8th place. He did pick up a prize of €114,000 though so all was not sour for him.
Galic made a good move next which resulted in the elimination of Alex Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald had been left crippled by William Reynolds, when the latter’s J,J made short work of his Ah,Kh. Galic took the last of his chips when his J,10 outran Fitzgerald’s K,9 on a board of 3,2,10, Q,A. Ovidiu Balaj headed to the rail next, When William Reynold’s 6,6 cracked his pocket 9s on a board of 6,2,3,A,4.
In stark contrast with his dominating Day 1-2-3-4 performance, Dragan Galic was definitely not firing on all cylinders at the final table. His final table doom would come at the hands of Constant Rijkenberg, as the Croatian’s 9,9 was in deep trouble against the Dutchman’s A,Q when the flop gave the latter a Broadway straight.
William Reynolds was eliminated in 4th place by the same Constant Rijkenberg who apparently was just beginning to roll. It only took three hands after Reynold’s elimination for the next player to head to the rail as well.
Gustav Sundell fell at the hands of Kalle Niemi when his A,6 of hearts failed to improve against Niemi’s A,Jo.
The heads-up match found both protagonists kind of exhausted and eager to call it the day. It only took Rijkenberg 5 hands to eliminate Niemi, as his pocket rockets left the latter’s Ad,10d in tatters in the final hand of the event. Rijknberg picked up a €1,508,000 prize for his efforts.
