Main Event Results & Coverage

EPT 9 Sanremo - October 05-11, 2012 - Main Event Coverage

On this page you will find Player Lists, Gallery Photos, Payout, Side Events and Final Table from the event.

For more information, please see the EPT 9 Sanremo event page.

Full reports from EPT 9 Sanremo Main Event are on the PokerStars blog and EPT facebook page.

Player Lists

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Payout

Payout

Place Name Prize (€) Status
1 Ludovic Lacay 744,910  
2 Jason Lavallee 538,089 PokerStars qualifier
3 Artem Litvinov 283,000  
4 Angelo Recchia 225,000  
5 Jason Tompkins 171,000  
6 Micah Raskin 132,000  
7 Adrian Piasecki 96,000 PokerStars qualifier
8 Ismael Bojang 65,450  
9 Amerigo Santoro 50,000 Live satellite winner
10 Charly Maracchione 50,000 PokerStars qualifier
11 Carmelo Vasta 40,000  
12 Iulian Ruxandescu 40,000  
13 Jonas Mackoff 32,000  
14 Michael Benvenuti 32,000 PokerStars player
15 Imed Mahmoud 27,000  
16 Matt Salsberg 27,000  
17 Alberto Musini 23,000 Live satellite winner
18 Thomas Gabriel 23,000 PokerStars qualifier
19 Negjdel Avdylaj 23,000  
20 Giuseppe Cefalu 23,000 PokerStars player
21 Yevgeniy Timoshenko 23,000 PokerStars qualifier
22 Andrea Furlanetto 23,000  
23 Inge Forsmo 23,000 PokerStars qualifier
24 Michele Di Lauro 23,000  
25 Luca Moschitta 19,000 PokerStars Team Online
26 Isaac Haxton 19,000 PokerStars player
27 Isaac Haxton 19,000  
28 Artem Metalidi 19,000 PokerStars qualifier
29 Francesco Lorenzini 19,000  
30 Sofia Lovgren 19,000  
31 Dimitar Danchev 19,000 PokerStars qualifier
32 Adrian Veghinas 19,000 Live satellite winner
33 Atanas Kavrakov 16,000  
34 Sebastian Sturmer 16,000 PokerStars player
35 Peter Dragar 16,000  
36 Justin Bonomo 16,000 PokerStars player
37 Ezio Ottaviani 16,000 Live satellite winner
38 Ozzy Sheikh 16,000  
39 Matteo Colantoni 16,000 PokerStars player
40 Tiziano Mosca 16,000  
41 Marco Fantini 14,000  
42 Erik Olofsson 14,000 PokerStars qualifier
43 Alexander Zayonts 14,000  
44 Eric Nhouyvanisvong 14,000 Live satellite winner
45 Mauro Mancin 14,000  
46 Kent Roed 14,000 PokerStars player
47 Simon Mattsson 14,000 PokerStars player
48 Shaun Deeb 14,000 PokerStars qualifier
49 Ioannis Kontonatsios 14,000 PokerStars qualifier
50 Iurii Dzetsyna 14,000 PokerStars qualifier
51 Morten Mortensen 14,000 Live satellite winner
52 Erion Islamay 14,000  
53 Sebastian Von Toperczer 14,000 PokerStars qualifier
54 Alex Roumeliotis 14,000  
55 Gabriele Nuzzo 14,000  
56 Alexander Kell 14,000 PokerStars qualifier
57 Lorenzo Sabato 12,000 PokerStars qualifier
58 Michele Bianchi 12,000  
59 Mike Watson 12,000 PokerStars player
60 Fernando Cimaglia 12,000 Live satellite winner
61 Tolik Shkoyan 12,000  
62 David Vamplew 12,000 PokerStars qualifier
63 Guillaume Rivet 12,000 PokerStars player
64 Frederico Cipollini 12,000  
65 Roberto Romanello 12,000  
66 Ferdinando Lo Cascio 12,000  
67 Eirik Lund Presterud 12,000 PokerStars player
68 Roland Bachmann 12,000 Live satellite winner
69 Maksim Semisoshenko 12,000 PokerStars qualifier
70 Sam Razavi 12,000  
71 Tom Alner 12,000  
72 Benjamin Vinson 10,000  
73 Ezio Ottaviani 10,000 Live satellite winner
74 Walid Bou-Habib 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
75 Mikolaj Zawadzki 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
76 Guichard Paul 10,000  
77 Simone Petrini 10,000  
78 Antoine Junillon 10,000  
79 Dermont Blain 10,000 PokerStars player
80 Paul van 't Veer 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
81 Alessandro Longobardi 10,000  
82 Leonardo Parmiggiani 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
83 Stephen Chidwick 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
84 Marco Di Persio 10,000 Live satellite winner
85 Oleksii Kravchuk 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
86 Fabian Quoss 10,000  
87 Alexander Ni 10,000  
88 Ignat Liviu 10,000  
89 Alessandro Pennisi 10,000  
90 Nadir Yusupov 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
91 Marc-Andre Ladouceur 10,000 PokerStars qualifier
92 Massimo Di Cicco 10,000 Live satellite winner
93 Rudi Van Mol 10,000  
94 Samuel Panzica 10,000  
95 Richard Loth 10,000  
96 Silvio Crisari 10,000  
97 Michael Ferrell 8,000 Live satellite winner
98 Torsten Brinkmann 8,000 PokerStars player
99 Rocco Busiello 8,000  
100 Mihai Manole 8,000  
101 Sebastian Gohr 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
102 Paul Berende 8,000 PokerStars player
103 Thomas Georg 8,000  
104 Ana Marquez 8,000 Team PokerStars Pro
105 Alexey Zakharov 8,000  
106 Artur Koren 8,000 PokerStars player
107 Sergey Baburin 8,000  
108 Viliyan Petleshkov 8,000 PokerStars player
109 Mathias Weiss 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
110 Melvin Hendriks 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
111 Lee Cockroft 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
112 Kamal Choraria 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
113 Michele Gaudiano 8,000  
114 Chris Brammer 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
115 Manig Loeser 8,000 PokerStars player
116 Chris Moneymaker 8,000 Team PokerStars Pro
117 Mikael Andersson 8,000 Live satellite winner
118 Nicolas Lemaitre 8,000  
119 Mikko Turtiainen 8,000 PokerStars qualifier
120 Liv Boeree 8,000 Team PokerStars Pro

Final Table

Final Table

Seat 1: Ludovic Lacay, 27, Toulouse, France - 5,366,000
Lacay has been playing EPTs since Season 4 and has already cashed in nine Main Events, including eighth at EPT5 Warsaw for € 32,843 and 21st at the EPT6 Grand Final for €52,000.

Like many other players, the 27-year-old got into online poker after enjoying success in the video game world where he played for one of the best French “Counter Strike” teams. Known as an aggressive poker player, Lacay first came to prominence in 2007 when he was runner-up in the WPT Spanish Championship for €295,200. But his best live cash to date was 16th place in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for $500,557, a result that also put him in the spotlight outside Europe. Although he has yet to win a major title, he is considered one of the best players in France (11th in the All Time Money List) and has already accrued $2 million in live tournament winnings.

Seat 2: Jason Tompkins, 27, Kildare, Ireland - 3,605,000
Jason Tompkins has been among the chip leaders in Sanremo since day one, and has now become the first Irish player to reach an EPT main event final table since Mick Graydon in Deauville last season. Ireland is still searching for its first EPT champion and Tompkins has been followed throughout this event by numerous supporters on Irish poker forums and via Twitter. Known online as blaaaaaah666, Tompkins actually prefers live poker and has cashes dating from 2007. He has made numerous final tables, including one of the UKIPT, and his biggest score was sixth place finish in the World Series this summer, worth $86,000.

Seat 3: Adrian Piasecki, 23, Katowice, Poland, PokerStars qualifier  - 2,045,000
Piasecki may well be new to playing live poker, having only played “a few” €1,000 events but he says he’s warming up to playing live. Given that he’s guaranteed himself at least €65,450 here in Sanremo, that should come as little surprise. He certainly seems a man of understatement, admitting that poker was his only way of making money but drawing the line at calling himself a professional player. Piasecki currently lives with his parents but said that situation is likely to change following this deep run. “The money I win here tomorrow, it will help me to stand on my own feet,” said Piasecki, who comes into the tomorrow’s final table fifth in chips.

Seat 4: Micah Raskin, 44, New York, USA – 1,550,000
Micah Raskin is a 44-year-old businessman from New York, USA, who has become a regular fixture on the international poker circuit. He has amassed more than $1.1m in live tournament winnings in a relatively brief career at the tables, and is now at his first EPT final table. He grew up in Queens, New York, where he learnt poker from his father, Tommy, playing in the basement of the family home with his twin brothers. The twins - Logan and Roger - are here in Sanremo and have been supporting Raskin from the rail throughout the tournament.

Seat 5: Jason Lavallee, 26, Montreal, Quebec - PokerStars qualifier - 5,545,000
Jason Lavallee is a 26-year old professional poker player from Montreal, Quebec. Though he generally plays a mixture of both tournaments and cash games, Lavallee has heightened his focus on tournament play as of late. Lavallee had his first major tournament cash back in 2007, but he earned his greatest tournament cash by finishing in 2nd place in the $15,000 World Poker Tour Championship event at Festa al Lago for $795,150. Since then Lavallee has been able to bring his total tournament winnings up to an impressive $1,055,312. Winning today will give Lavallee the biggest tournament score of his life and he is in a good position to do so as he is the biggest stack at the table.

Seat 6: Ismael Bojang, 23, Hamburg, Germany - 2,845,000
Bojang, 23, has been playing poker for five years now. A former Economics student at Göttingen University, Bojang is mainly a live cash and tournament player and plays very little online. This he puts down to the entertainment value. It’s more fun to play live, he says, with fewer distractions. Living in Hamburg, he regularly travels to France and Austria to play Omaha cash games.

Despite this he still plays the occasional PokerStars tournament on a Sunday but it’s live poker that has brought him the most success, including four cashes at this year’s WSOP. To date his live tournament earnings amount to nearly $400,000.

Seat 7: Angelo Recchia, 29, Brindisi, Italy - 1,755,000
Recchia hails from San Vito dei Normanni, Brindisi and first started playing poker six years ago in online heads up SNGs and MTTs. His first live experience was in 2010 competing in the PokerStars.it All Stars Of Poke; he finished sixth for €12,000. Recchia graduated in linguistics, then did military service and worked as a barman all around Italy before becoming a poker pro. His best live result to date was winning a €1,000 IPT Sanremo side event in January for €32,000. He also has several other smaller cashes to his name from the PCA, WSOP and Eureka Poker Tour. Online, he came fifth in the PokerStars.it Sunday Special for almost €10,500 and third in the PokerStars.it Sunday High Roller for around €6,500.

Seat 8: Artem "roi kin23" Litvinov, 38, St Petersburg, Russia - 800,000
Russian player Artem Litvinov is an EPT regular with five Main Event cashes to his name already, including 16th at EPT8 Deauville for €26,000. Litvinov works in marketing but plays a lot of high stakes poker, both live and online. He first started playing poker about seven years ago, His best result to date was in April when he outlasted players such as Phil Ivey, Alex Bilokur and Martin Finger to finish fifth in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final High Roller for €216,000. His live tournament winnings already total nearly $500,000 - but would have been €122,960 more if he hadn’t bubbled the Super High Roller at EPT Barcelona. Online, he also has a string of tidy results including third in a $2k SCOOP NL event for $206,784 and third in a WCOOP event for $144,808.

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