Robin Ylitalo has become our first casualty of the final table after making a move from the big blind.
Fabrice Soulier opened to 57,000 from the button putting the action on Balazs Botond in the small blind. He peeled back his cards before making it 135,000 to play. Next to act was Sweden's Ylitalo in the big blind and he announced he was all in for a shade over 1,100,000. Soulier folded but Botond made the call.
Botond:
Ylitalo:
Ylitalo caught with his fingers in the cookie jar but to be fair it is a move that would possibly have worked had not Botond been sat their with the ladies. The dealer put out the flop followed by the turn and finally the river and with that Ylitalo becomes our eighth place finisher.
It's been a tough early start for Fabrice Soulier, everyone else has been three-betting him a lot and winning several pots off the Frenchman. The latest was Jannick Wrang, who made a raise to 142,000 against Soulier on the turn of a board which the latter called, but when Wrang bet 322,000 on the river, Soulier elected to give it up to the Dane.
Olivier Busquet opens to 50,000 from under the gun and he finds two callers in the shape of Jannick Wrang in the cutoff and Fabrice Soulier, though the latter shaped as if he was going to try and make a squeeze play.
The trio share a flop reading and Busquet makes a continuation bet of 80,000, Wrang calls, and Soulier covers his mouth with his scarf before once again shaping to raise but then just calls. The turn is the and now Busquet checks. Wrang decides to fire a bet of 205,000 that Soulier folds to but Busquet calls. The river is the and when Busquet checks Wrang checks behind.
We saw a flop on the first hand but Olivier Busquet took the pot down with a standard continuation bet. The second two were taken down preflop after a raise from the cutoff then the hijack by Mario Nagel.
Widely regarded as one of the best heads-up sit-n-go players in the world, Olivier Busquet has made a highly successful move to live poker and has already earned over $2.5 million. He first started playing poker in home games while working for a Wall Street trading firm. He said: “When I first took up poker, it was with the idea that there was essentially a lot of skill set overlap between what a Wall Street trader and a poker professional were doing. Another friend of mine told me about online poker and I got right into it. Eventually, I had built up to a few thousand dollars and jumped into $5-$10. In the span of a month, I had earned about $100,000 and moved into the $25-$50 games.”
On one site, Busquet became the first ever player to win seven-figures playing heads-up SNGs and in 2009 he started playing live. He cashed several times at that summer’s World Series but it was his victory at WPT Borgata in September that put him on the map when he beat a 1,108-strong field for $925,514. A few months later, Busquet snagged the second biggest cash of his career - €597,000 after finishing second to Tobias Reinkemeier at the EPT6 Grand Final High Roller in Monaco. Since then he has cashed at the PCA, EPT Deauville and NAPT Mohegan Sun as well as finishing fourth in the EPT London High Roller event last October for ￡171,200 and 34th at EPT Madrid two weeks ago.
De Visscher started playing poker on holiday in April 2006 and has been playing regularly ever since. He bubbled the first EPT he ever played – EPT Barcelona in Season 7 - but got his big break at EPT Snowfest just a few months later, finishing third for €147,000. Since then he’s accrued a further €50,000 in EPT cashes including three this season: 33rd at EPT Barcelona for €16,000, 18th at EPT Loutraki for €8,700 and 30th at EPT Deauville for €20,000. Visscher first started playing poker in €5 home games with friends but after a year started playing online. He's now a full time player and has focused on tournaments for the three years. He’s no slouch online either, taking down a PokerStars.com SCOOP $1k NL event last year for $92,417. He lives with his girlfriend in Wilsele near Leuven.
Campione must bring back pretty good memories for German PokerStars player Mario Nagel because it’s here that he snagged his first ever live cash when he finished 27th at the Italian Poker Tour Campione event last June for $5,126. Just a few months later and he had another cash in Italy – third in one of the EPT San Remo nightly €300 turbo tourneys for €4,500. Online he’s done even better and won a $265 SCOOP event last year for $81,536. Nagel, who is an Industrial Administrator and is also studying economics, first started playing poker after he saw Chris Moneymaker winning the WSOP on TV in 2004. Initially he stuck to playing online tourneys on PokerStars but after his SCOOP victory, he started playing live events as well. EPT Barcelona was his first EPT and this is his first EPT main event cash. Nagel is being supported in Campione by his good friends Ole Schemoin, Tobias Hagedorn and EPT Prague champion Martin Finger.
Puccilli has been playing poker for eight years with excellent results, especially on the Italian Poker Tour, where he is one of the most popular players at the tables. His IPT performances include winning IPT Sanremo in June 2009 for €120,000, finishing fifth at IPT San Remo in December 2009 for €27,000, 22nd at IPT San Marino in 2010, 29th at IPT Venice 2010 and third place in a €1,100 IPT Campione side event for CHF 21,900. Puccilli was the real star of the first IPT season in 2009/2010 and was voted both IPT Player of the Year and PokerStars Qualifier of the Year during the IPT awards in San Remo. The last year hasn’t been as successful but he has still managed to be the only Italian player on the first EPT Campione final table - out of 242 who started the event! He’s planning to use his winnings to take care of his family, increase his bankroll and maybe buy a good car. When he isn’t playing poker, he says he works “full time as a happy dad”.
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board which the latter called, but when Wrang bet 322,000 on the river, Soulier elected to give it up to the Dane.
and Busquet makes a continuation bet of 80,000, Wrang calls, and Soulier covers his mouth with his scarf before once again shaping to raise but then just calls. The turn is the 
and now Busquet checks. Wrang decides to fire a bet of 205,000 that Soulier folds to but Busquet calls. The river is the 
and when Busquet checks Wrang checks behind.
and Wrang mucks.
