2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
78
Prize
€404,793
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Entries
322
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Taking It With Good Grace

Giuseppe Sarlo in the hijack and Richard Grace on the button saw a {5-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} {J-Clubs} flop, which Sarlo checked. Grace bet a roughly pot-sized 2,200, to which Sarlo responded by raising to 5,500. Call.

Both players checked the {K-Spades} turn and Sarlo checked the {9-Hearts} river too. "How much do you have?" asked Grace - around 17,000 - and then moved all in to cover. Sarlo thought about it very briefly before closing his eyes and plonking his whole stack in the middle - and then cried, "YESSSS!!!" with an exuberance only an Italian can really pull off when his {K-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} turned out to have steamed miles ahead of Grace's {Q-Clubs} {J-Clubs} on he turn and river.

Sarlo is up to over 50,000; Grace is back down to his 30,000 starting stack.

Tags: Giuseppe SarloRichard Grace