Level: 29
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 10,000
2010 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn
Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn
Buy-in
€4,000
Prize Pool
€1,596,000
Entries
420
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
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The players were scheduled to have a fifteen minute break, but Konstantin Bilyauer asked if could just be a five minute one. No objections from Stani and we're back in five.
After picking up a 900,000 pot with 
on a 
board, Kevin Stani continues to bink or bet his way to victory.
Konstantin Bilyauer then opened to 200,000 and Stani called. They checked the 
board down to the river where Stani suddenly fired 325,000. Bilyauer quickly called but mucked upon seeing Stani's 
.
Konstantin Bilyauer has rallied again, and is back up to 2.6 million.
He raised to 200,000 from the button and Kevin Stani called before checking the 
flop. Bilyauer checked behind and they saw a 
turn. Stani now bet out 250,000, and when Bilyauer announced all in, Stani asked how much more it was to call - 1.6 million - but eventually folded.
A few hands later and it was Stani's turn to make it 200,000 from the button, but Bilyauer made it 505,000 from the big blind and Stani gave it up.
Konstantin Bilyauer has been doing a lot of folding. Folding to raises from Kevin Stani. Open folding his small blind. Check-folding. All kinds of folding. But this hand, he tried a new one - the bet-fold.
Bilyauer raised to 200,000, and Stani called. The flop fell 
, and Stani checked. Bilyauer bet 275,000, and shaking once again, Stani raised to 600,000. Bilyauer snap-folded, and Stani picked up even more chips. He's got 10.75 million to Bilyauer's 1.85 million.
Kevin Stani opened to 200,000 from the button and Konstantin Bilyauer called. The flop was 
, Bilyauer firing out 350,000 which Stani called, his hands shaking a little.
The turn saw both players check to see a 
river where Bilyauer now curiously bet just 150,000. Stani quickly called and turned over 
while the Russian simply mucked.
Stani is almost on the 10 million mark with Bilyauer down to around 2.5 million, an epic comeback needed.
First hand of heads up saw Kevin Stani open to 160,000 and Konstantin Bilyauer make the call. Both players checked the 
flop before Bilyauer led for 275,000 on the 
turn. Stani called to see the 
river and Bilyauer led again for 325,000 this time.
After about 30 seconds of thinking, Stani raised to a cool 1,000,000 and Bilyauer looked unhappy, eventually folding.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
8,600,000 | |
|
||
|
4,200,000 | |
Kevin Stani made it 200,000 from the small blind, and in the big blind Arnaud Mattern took a moment before reraising to what looked like just shy of 600,000. We couldn't get the exact amount of the reraise because before anyone had time to count it, Stani had gone all in and Mattern had snap-called for his tournament life.
Stani: 
Mattern:
Flop: 
- no problems for Mattern there.
Turn: ...
, which was a big problem for Mattern, as it made Stani a set of threes, although it did give Mattern some outs to a flush.
River: 
And with that heartbreaking defeat for the Team PokerStars Pro, Mattern's hopes of being the first person in history to win two EPT titles vanished into thin air. A moment later and Mattern himself had vanished from the card room too. But that, as they say, is poker.
We are now heads up.
On a 
flop, Konstantin Bilyauer bet 210,000, and Kevin Stani flatted. They both checked the turn, and after the 
river, Bilyauer checked again. Stani tried to steal the pot with a bet of 275,000, but it didn't work. Bilyauer called and Stani insta-mucked. Bilyauer showed 
for queen-high to take the pot.