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San Remo EPT Event - Season 4

EPT Main Event - No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

April 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Casino Sanremo
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	4,700 EURO + 300 EURO
Prize Pool	3,195,860 EURO
Entries	701
Report Available

Jason Mercier

Place	Name	Prize
1	Jason Mercier (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)	869,000 EURO
2	Anthony Lellouche (Paris, France)	505,000 EURO
3	Dario Minieri (Rome, Italy)	287,600 EURO
4	Eric Koskas (Marseille, France)	223,600 EURO
5	Gregory Genovese (Italy)	188,500 EURO
6	William Thorson (Varberg, Sweden)	140,600 EURO
7	Dag Palovic AKA "Lucky D." (Bratislava, Slovakia)	111,800 EURO
8	Marcus Bower (S Williamsport, PA, USA)	76,700 EURO
9	Unknown	46,300 EURO
10	Mark Flowers (Greenville, NC, USA)	46,300 EURO
11	Isaac Baron (USA)	28,750 EURO
12	Jonas Klausen (Denmark)	28,750 EURO
13	Felipe Ramos AKA "Mojave" (Sao Paulo, Brazil)	22,400 EURO
14	Henrik Brockman (USA)	22,400 EURO
15	Bart Wetsteijn (Middelburg, Netherlands)	17,600 EURO
16	Jan Heitmann (Finnentrop, Germany)	17,600 EURO
17	James Sowers AKA "Mike" (Charlotte, NC, USA)	16,000 EURO
18	Peter Roche (Ireland)	16,000 EURO
19	Marcello Terraciano (Italy)	16,000 EURO
20	Stefan Raffay AKA "SirRaffay" (Broendby Strand, Denmark)	16,000 EURO
21	Markus Golser (Saltzberg, Austria)	16,000 EURO
22	Andreas Larsson (Sweden)	16,000 EURO
23	Christian Bonde (Norway)	16,000 EURO
24	Todd Brunson (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	16,000 EURO
25	Terje Augdal (Norway)	12,800 EURO
26	Julian Parmann (USA)	12,800 EURO
27	Ville Nyman (Finland)	12,800 EURO
28	Ezio Guagliata (Italy)	12,800 EURO
29	Mads Andersen (Copenhagen, Denmark)	12,800 EURO
30	Marco Della Monica (Italy)	12,800 EURO
31	Paul Alterman (London, UK)	12,800 EURO
32	Anthony Spinella AKA "holdplz" (Port Jefferson, NY, USA)	12,800 EURO
33	Alessandro De Michele (Italy)	11,200 EURO
34	Jesse Optekar (USA)	11,200 EURO
35	Nicolo Calia (Italy)	11,200 EURO
36	Sandro Soncini (Italy)	11,200 EURO
37	Dennis Doran (Denmark)	11,200 EURO
38	Marius Bobinas (Lithuania)	11,200 EURO
39	Asger Boye	11,200 EURO
40	Cristian Rajala (Romania)	11,200 EURO
41	Andrea Cortona (Florence, Italy)	9,600 EURO
42	Alessio Isaia (Cuneo, Italy)	9,600 EURO
43	Raymond Rahme (Johannesburg, South Africa)	9,600 EURO
44	Giampiero Coccio (Italy)	9,600 EURO
45	Henrik Kask (Sweden)	9,600 EURO
46	Rolf Slotboom (Amsterdam, Netherlands)	9,600 EURO
47	Rob Hollink (Groningen, Netherlands)	9,600 EURO
48	Hans Eskilsson (Norway)	9,600 EURO
49	Hakan Sahl (Lidkoping, Sweden)	8,000 EURO
50	Hakan Sahl (Lidkoping, Sweden)	8,000 EURO
51	Jochen Heirman AKA "MasterJNeel" (Gent, Belgium)	8,000 EURO
52	Niels Rikhof (La Junta, CO, USA)	8,000 EURO
53	Liz Lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	8,000 EURO
54	Jesse White (USA)	8,000 EURO
55	Massimiliano Trifoglio AKA "maxtri" (Finale l., Italy)	8,000 EURO
56	Brandon Schaefer AKA "Koga" (Seattle, WA, USA)	8,000 EURO
57	Luca Mortarino (Italy)	7,020 EURO
58	Sandro Bellusci AKA "sanbel" (Napoli, Italy)	7,020 EURO
59	Steven Van Zadelhoff (Netherlands)	7,020 EURO
60	Dennis Baratta (Italy)	7,020 EURO
61	Justin Tresedell (Ewing, KY, USA)	7,020 EURO
62	Maurizio Marchese (Italy)	7,020 EURO
63	Soren Eriksen	7,020 EURO
64	Yung Hwang	7,020 EURO
65	Roberto Masullo (Italy)	5,750 EURO
66	Matt Kay (Canada)	5,750 EURO
67	Anders Vind (Denmark)	5,750 EURO
68	Mikael Gibbemark (Sweden)	5,750 EURO
69	Henrik Warn (Sweden)	5,750 EURO
70	Theo Jorgensen (Copenhagen, Denmark)	5,750 EURO
71	Filippo Galtieri (Italy)	5,750 EURO
72	Loic Perret (France)	5,750 EURO

Tournament Report

Jason Mercier of the USA won the biggest poker tournament ever held in Italy today, the €3.1m sell-out PokerStars.com EPT San Remo.
The 21-year-old math teacher from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, overcame a field of 701 players to secure a first prize of €869,000 ($1.35m).
In the fastest final table in EPT history, Mercier busted Frenchmen Antony Lellouche (2nd) and Erik Koskas (4th), plus local Italian champion Dario Minieri (3rd) in just two and a half hours.
Mercier qualified for the €5,000 event via an online satellite on PokerStars, the world's largest online cardroom. He said: 'I felt pretty confident of winning after making a tough call against Eric. That was when I really started to believe I could win.'
The play against Koskas, where Mercier successfully called the Frenchman's all-in bluff with a pair of fives, was the talk of the San Remo casino. Eric Koskas said afterwards: 'It wasn't just an amazing call. It was the best poker play I have ever seen.'
With Mercier now holding 80 per cent of the chips, it took him just two hands to eliminate Lellouche in 2nd place. It was Lellouche's fourth EPT cash - the popular Frenchman already cashed at two EPT Grand Finals and came sixth at EPT London last September. Minieri, who started the day as chip leader, benefitted from vociferous support from a strongly partisan Italian crowd. The 23-year-old from Roman fell to Mercier when his pair of queens was beaten by a flush on the river.
Among the star names in San Remo were Tony G, Patrick Antonius, Todd Brunson and Roland de Wolfe, as well as TeamPokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Luca Pagano, Katja Thater, Noah Boeken, Vanessa Rousso, Lee Nelson, Raymond Rahme and Isabelle Mercier, plus 164 players who won their seats online with PokerStars. Mercier was playing in only his second live event. He wins not only the San Remo title but a seat in next week's €10,000 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo which starts next week (April 12-17). Online qualifier satellites are running on PokerStars until midnight Eastern Time tomorrow (April 6).