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EPT San Remo – Liv Boeree wins!
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Fri, 2010-04-23 18:45
The EPT’s 2010 San Remo stop is finally over. After 6 days of action and after having survived a record starting field of 1,240, Liv Bouree was crowned champion, thus becoming the third woman to take down an
EPT Main Event title.
On her way to the title, Bouree bested Jacob Carlsson heads-up. She earned €1.25 million for her efforts, not to mention a silver trophy and the glory that comes with such achievements.
There were a couple of players at the final table who had no time to waste. As soon as the action kicked off, short –stacked Atanas Gueorguiev made his do or die move. The Bulgarian picked up a pair of 9s and shoved all-in on them, just to be called by Toni Pettersson, who had A,Qo in his pocket.
The flop brought along a Q and neither the turn nor the river bailed Gueorguiev out, who picked up €150k for his 8th place finish.
Claudio Piceci was the next victim. The Italian got it all in on an A,6,Q,K,3 board against Carlsson. He’d obviously aimed to hit a flush as he had a 4-card flush on the turn, but it failed to materialize, and thus Carlsson’s lowly top pair ended up taking down the pot for the Swede.
It wouldn’t take long for the Italians’ diminished hopes for keeping the title at home to vanish completely. The other Italian left in the
poker tournament, Giuseppe Diep was the next one to hit the rail. His 8c,9c proved to be no match for Michael Piper’s pocket 10s.
Alexey Rybin followed the two Italians to the rail, ushered out by Carlsson.
Ultimate Bet’s Liv Bouree got going with 4 players remaining in contention, and she did so at the expense of Michael Piper. Piper’s Qh, 10h never stood a chance against Bouree’s A,Ko and thus 3-handed play was set.
Bouree was responsible for Pettersson’s elimination too. Her 8,8 held against a K,Qo and she accumulated enough chips to be able to take on Carlsson heads-up.
The heads-up battle see-sawed for a while, before Bouree turned the tables. Eventually, the battle was decided by a coin-flip. Carlsson’s A,6 went up against Bouree’s pocket 5s in the final hand of the poker tournament. The lowly small pair held up to give the win to Bouree and to send Carlosson home with €750k.
