October 09 2012, Chad Holloway
The PokerStars Season 9 European Poker Tour Sanremo continued on Tuesday with Day 4 action from the Casino Sanremo. The remaining 66 players from a 797-player field returned to battle down to the final 24. It took a little over five levels of play, but eventually the field was whittled and Jason Tompkins emerged as the chip leader with a stack of 2,423,000.
Tompkins got most of his chips in Level 22 when he opened from the cut-off and called when Amerigo Santoro three-bet to 74,000 from the small blind. The flop came down 
and Tompkins called a continuation-bet, which brought the 
turn.
When faced with a 120,000 bet, Tompkins raised to 285,000 and then snap-called all in when Santoro shoved. Tompkins opened pocket eights for a set but was behind the wheel of Santoro, who held 
. The river came to Tompkin’s rescue when a 
fell to pair the board and give him the 2.5 million pot.
Other notables who managed to make it through to Day 5 included Thomas Gabriel, Artem Litvinov, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Michael Benvenuti, Matt Salsberg, Micah Raskin, Jason Lavallee, Ludovic Lacay and the Day 3 and 4 chip leader, Inge Forsmo.
Not everyone was so lucky on Day 4, as Roberto Romanello (65th – “12,000), David Vamplew (62nd – “12,000), Mike Watson (59th – “12,000), Alex Roumeliotis (54th – “14,000), Day 1a chip leader Erion Islamay (52nd – “14,000) and Morten Mortensen (51st – “14,000).
In a hand at the tail end of Level 20, SCOOP superstar Shaun Deeb moved all in from middle position for 162,000 and received a call from Artem Metalidi in the small blind.
. With that, Deeb was eliminated from the tournament in 48th place for “14,000.Not long after, Angelo Recchia opened for 32,000 from the hijack and was met with a three-bet to 75,000 from Justin Bonomo on the button. Both players in the blinds cleared out, Recchia four-bet to 140,000, and Bonomo made the call. When the 
appeared on the flop, Recchia led out for a mediocre 65,000, and after thinking for a bit, Bonomo moved all in for 220,000. Recchia made a quick call and the cards were turned up.
Recchia held an over pair while Bonomo was drawing to a double-gutted straight draw. Unfortunately for Bonomo, neither the 
turn nor 
river completed it and his Main Event run came to an end in 36th place for “16,000. From there, Atanas Kavrakov (33rd – “16,000), Sofia Lovgren (30th – “19,000), and Isaac Haxton (26th – “19,000) all hit the rail before play came to end an for the night.
Day 5 action is set to kick off at 1400 CEST (0800 EDT) on Wednesday as the final 24 players will battle down to the final table of eight. You can follow the action in the PokerNews Live Blog.
EPT Sanremo “10,000 High Roller
Day 1 of the “10,000 High Roller wrapped up on Wednesday. Seventy-four players entered, and after 10 reloads, a total field size of 84 entries was created. The prize pool stands at “823,200, and the top prize of “288,000 will go to the winner.
At the end of the night, 45 competitors remained. Brandon Barnes finished on top of the leaderboard with 211,700 in chips.
Day 1 was full of notable players, but not all of them could make it through to Day 2. Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier was one of those players to exit on the day, busting not once, but twice.
On his first elimination, Mercier lost with pocket nines to Bryn Kenney’s pocket jacks after the money went in on the turn of a ten-high board. Then on his second elimination, Mercier’s 
couldn’t beat the 
of Torsten Brinkmann, and he was eliminated.
Steve O’Dwyer was another player who busted twice on the day, while Sam Trickett, Mike “Timex” McDonald, Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Paul Berende all fired just one bullet and lost.
Of those remaining, Pier Paola Ruscalla (199,300), Justin Bonomo (190,600), Kent Roed (188,800) and Luca Pagano (188,600) all bagged up enough chips to be near the top of the leaderboard. Other notables remaining are Igor Kurganov, Kyle Julius and Govert Metaal.
Play will resume tomorrow at 1500 CET (0900 EST), so be sure to return right back here to PokerNews for all the live coverage.
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September 18 2012, Chad Holloway
On Sunday night, the World Poker Tour Season X continued on Fox Sports Network with Part I of the $100,000 Super High Roller, which took place alongside the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio back in May.
On Day 1 of the event, 26 players, including Phil Galfond, David “Doc” Sands, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, Masa Kagawa, Robert Zeps, Brian Hastings and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, forked over the $100,000 buy-in. Eventually six players were eliminated and took advantage of the reentry – Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Galen Hall, Tom Marchese, Andrew Robl and Cary Katz.
As the day wore on, Sam Trickett joined the action, and Negreanu busted his second buy-in after his 
ran into the 
of Galfond. “Everything went wrong in this 100K for me…not rebuying anymore,” Negreanu tweeted shortly after taking his leave. Others who joined him on the rail throughout the day were Grospellier, Michael Parziale, Robert Zeps and Clemenceau Calixto.
Day 1 ended with 19 players and Justin Bonomo’s stack of 1.433 million leading the way. Registration was open up until the start of Day 2, and that inspired poker pro Sorel Mizzi to give it a shot. Likewise, Calixto opted to give it another go and reentered the tournament, which created a $3.3 million prize pool.
Mizzi’s late registration didn’t go as planned because he busted within an hour of entering, and Dan Shak, Mercier, Katz, Calixto, Sands, Smith and Galfond soon followed him out the door. When Hastings exited in 10th place, the final nine players combined to one table and looked to play down to the official final table of six – though only five were slated to get paid.
, eliminating Smith.Here’s how things stacked up at the start of the final table:
WPT Season X $100,000 Super High Roller Open Final Table
| 1 | Bill Klein | 620,000 (12 BBs) |
| 2 | John Juanda | 1,875,000 (37 BBs) |
| 3 | Tom Marchese | 2,235,000 (44 BBs) |
| 4 | Daniel Perper | 3,415,000 (68 BBs) |
| 5 | Justin Bonomo | 2,105,000 (42 BBs) |
| 6 | Andrew Robl | 3,355,000 (67 BBs) |
Where is JJ?: There was one man mysteriously absent at the start of the final table, and that was six-time WPT finalist John Juanda, who finished runner-up to Gus Hansen in the first-ever WPT event at the Bellagio. “First place is over $1.3 million and the guy’s not even here, it’s just incredible to me, but you do blind the guy off and ante him off, so however long that takes for him to go broke,” Mike Sexton said before choosing Bonomo as his pick to win it.
Playing for Charity: In the very first hand of the broadcast, Tom Marchese opened for 100,000 with 
only to have Daniel Perper three-bet to 240,000. Bill Klein proceeded to moved all in for 615,000 from the big blind with 
.
Interestingly, Klei, the amateur, had pledged to donate 100% of his winnings to charity; what’s more, he had promised to contribute another $100,000 to charity even if he busted in sixth place on the money bubble. As it was, Marchese folded the best hand and Perper called with the worst to put Klein at risk. Klein, who you may recognize from some episodes of High Stakes Poker, was a 68 percent favorite, but that dropped to 60 percent on the 
flop. The 
turn bumped it up to 75 percent, and the 
river gave him a double to 1.41 million on Hand #1.
“I’ve been very blessed in my life. I had cancer in 2003, I’ve been a cancer survivor. Every day is a great day. We’ve been financially blessed. You gotta give back, you gotta get in there and pitch in. You can’t somebody else do it,” Klein said in a side interview.
, and was none too happy when tournament officials informed him that it was a dead hand.The Fashion Report: Mike Sexton believes finalists should look good at the feature table; as such, in our Part I recaps I like to offer a short and sweet fashion report on each player:
Bill Klein: A baby blue polo with a black baseball cap. Definitely not anything special, but somewhat fitting since you got the feeling this amateur would be left black and blue by the professionals at the table. Grade: C+
John Juanda: A brown-and-white squared short-sleeve button-up. Nothing too fancy, but the colors looked good on Juanda. Grade: B
Tom Marchese: A grey t-shirt with what appeared to be black flames rising up. C’mon Tom. Grade: D
Daniel Perper: Slicked back hair with a silky black button-up. It was the sort of shirt you might see at a nightclub, but it looked good. Grade: B+
Justin Bonomo: A similar getup to Perper, Bonomo sported a long-sleeve black button-up, though the sleeves were up and cuffed. It looked pretty sleek. Grade: A-
Andrew Robl: You might think he planned his outfit with Bonomo and Perper, because he was wearing – you guessed it – a black button-up. “He looks a little like a poor man’s Matt Damon, doesn’t he,” said Vince Van Patten. Grade: B+
The Bubble Boy: In Hand #13 of the final table, with the blinds at 25,000/50,000 and a 5,000 ante, Justin Bonomo min-raised from the cutoff with 
only to have John Juanda three-bet to 300,000 from the big blind with 
. Bonomo thought for a few moments before making the call, and then watched Juanda move all in on the 
flop. Bonomo had flopped top pair with top kicker, and he called off his remaining 1.9 million.
Bonomo, who only had an 18 percent chance of survival, looked dejected and stared at the table as the 
turned. That dropped his chances to win down to just 8 percent, but the useless 
peeled off on the river and his day was done. Bonomo composed himself enough to shake hands with the remaining players, but you could tell he was extremely disappointed to be leaving empty handed on the $263,160 money bubble.
“It sucks, there’s not really much other way to put it,” Bonomo told Jessica Welman in his post-elimination interview. “The World Series is coming up, so hopefully I’ll do well there. I can’t complain too much, life is good.”
Tune in Next Week: Part II of the WPT World Championship Super High Roller is set to air on Sunday, Sept. 23, on FSN, so be sure to check your local listings. If by chance you miss it, check back next week for the latest recap of all the action here on PokerNews.
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