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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October 07 2012, Josh Cahlik
Both starting fields of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Sanremo combined on Sunday to battle on the felt for six levels. Of the 797 who entered the “5,300 buy-in main event, only 430 returned for Day 2. At the end of the day, Inge Forsmo emerged as the leader of the remaining 162 players, with a stack of 606,100.
Forsmo gained a big chunk of his stack on a hand where the board read 
. Forsmo bet 62,000 from middle position and Nikoay Tyurin flat called. Oleg Larichev moved all in for less and the 
hit the river. Forsmo announced that he was all in and Tyurin called off his tournament life with 
. Forsmo held 
for a set of sixes and was able to score a double knockout. For the rest of the night, his chip stack trended upward.
There are many players on Forsmo’s heels. Other players who will carry big stacks into Day 3 are Charly Maracchione (505,800), Jason Tompkins (500,000), Lorenzo Sabato (387,900), Matt Salsberg (338,700), and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (336,300).
Others may not be the biggest stacks in the room, but they are certainly notable faces and will be returning to compete on Day 3. Some of those returning for the third day of play are David Vamplew (294,800), Shaun Deeb (188,800), Ludovic Lacay (183,100), Isaac Haxton (148,800), Todd Terry (97,500), and Rupert Elder (31,500)
Team PokerStars Pro also had several players make it through to the third day of play. Ana Marquez (162,000), Jude Ainsworth (138,700), Luca Moschitta (104,400), Liv Boeree (81,400), Chris Moneymaker (70,600), Mickey Petersen (66,500), Jose Barbero (65,100), Andre Akkari (46,300), and 2011 World Series of Poker champion Pius Heinz (43,600) are among the players who are moving on to Day 3.
Also returning for Day 2 with a starting stack of 82,400 was Team PokerStars pro Angel Guillen. Unfortunately for Guillen, the cards were not on his side and provided him with a roller coaster of a day. Guillen saw his tournament come to an end when he shipped his stack of 15,000 all in before the flop with 
.
Guillen’s all-in bet was called by fellow Team PokerStars pro Theo Jorgensen who held an inferior 
. This final hand was the icing on the cake of a bad day for Guillen, however, because the flop fell 
to give Jorgensen a straight and the best hand. Guillen failed to improve on the subsequent streets and was sent to the rail. It was a temporary victory for Jorgensen, because he also meet his end before play reached the conclusion for the day.
Melanie Weisner, Johnny Lodden, Leo Fernandez, JC Alvarado, Eugene Katchalov, Tim Adams, Andy Frankenberger, and Mike McDonald were among those who returned for Day 2 only to find themselves without any chips before the day ended.
Day 3 will begin play at 1400 CET (0800 ET) on Monday. Be sure to stay tuned to the updates on PokerNews as the field pops the money bubble and beyond!
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