We saw that at the 250€ Sunday Extravaganza Carnival Series of PokerStars Poker – Sisal Poker, the victory went to William ‘iMancio90’ Mancini.
Here is the story of the high stakes tournament on the PokerStars Network, with the hands and videos of the final table eliminations.
The situation
The 250€ Sunday Extravaganza PKO counted 569 entries for a prize pool of 128.025€, divided between progressive bounties and 103 paid positions. Among those eliminated in the money, we find many well-known regulars.
Limiting ourselves to the top 50, here are Raffaele ‘Raffa_N5’ Francese (36th), Andrea ‘Andreacigna’ Pini (34th), Antonio ‘ANSU-FATI96’ Zola (22nd), and Fabrizio ‘Asky16’ Petroni (15th).
The final table began on blinds 25k-50k with ‘020319909911’ as the chipleader with more than three million. The table shows positions and stacks at the starting hand of the final table.
| Position | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | William ‘iMancio90’ Mancini | 1.574.547 |
| 2 | Frangucaval | 662.306 |
| 3 | Mimmo10099 | 1.833.948 |
| 4 | Stefano ‘easycallxxx’ Terziani | 1.108.868 |
| 5 | IR3adUrM1nd | 2.310.258 |
| 6 | 020319909911 | 3.018.666 |
| 7 | Al3ksejIvanovic | 1.869.172 |
| 8 | M3ssiD10s | 921.462 |
| 9 | HeresHoggDeen3y | 796.773 |
‘HeresHoggDeen3y’ ninth
The first elimination comes in a hand with post-flop action. With a 14bb stack, ‘HeresHoggDeen3y’ opens x2 K K from the cutoff, ‘Mimmo10099’ calls from the big blind with 6 4 .
Flop 5 10 3 , check, 100k, call.
Turn 6 check, with a pot-sized-bet ‘HeresHoggDeen3y’ checks behind.
River 2 , ‘Mimmo10099’ bets 500k with a straight, putting his opponent all-in, who calls with his pair of kings and finds himself player out. Here is the hand replay:
‘Frangucaval’ eighth
At the same level of play, on blinds 25k-50k, with 20x ‘Frangucaval’ opens 110k A K from mp, from the small blind ‘020319909911’ puts him all-in with 9 9 , call and it’s a coinflip.
On Q 3 3 5 5 the coin toss falls on the side of the pair.
‘Al3ksejIvanovic’ seventh
Left with 235k on blinds 30k-60k, ‘Al3ksejIvanovic‘ pushes A 10 from the small blind after the x2 opening by ‘Mimmo1099’ from utg+1 and the x2 3-bet by ‘020319909911’ from the button. The original raiser re-pushes with Q Q while the 3-bettor folds A 6 .
The board Q 10 3 9 9 brings the Sunday Extravaganza final table to six left.
‘IR3adUrM1nd’ sixth
At the same level of play, on the open-push by ‘easycallxxx’ small to big, ‘IR3adUrM1nd’ calls 10x from the big blind with A 4 . Stefano Terziani turns over K * 7 and on K Q 5 6 2 makes him player out.
‘M3ssiD10s’ fifth
After the level-up to blinds 40k-80k, ‘M3ssiD10s’ pushes 1.45M from the big blind with 10 10 on the x2 opening by ‘iMancio90’ from utg, who snaps with A A .
The board 5 6 3 8 8 is a verdict for the underdog.
‘easycallxxx’ fourth
At the same level of play ‘easycallxxx’ calls 11x from the big blind with J J on the open-push small to big by ‘Mimmo10099’, who shows up at showdown with Q 5 .
The board A 3 5 4 5 overturns the preflop balance and the Sunday Extravaganza reaches the podium zone.
‘Mimmo10099’ third
At three left, the action slows down. The next elimination comes on blinds 60k-120k. From the small blind ‘Mimmo10099’ open-pushes 11x Q K , on the big blind ‘020319909911’ calls with 10 A and on 5 5 K J A moves to heads-up with almost nine million in chips against the 5.3M of ‘iMancio90’.
The last showdown
Within a few hands, the stack situation is reversed. When ‘020319909911’ opens x2 K 10 from the button, he has 5.4 million in chips against the 8.7 million of ‘iMancio90’, who in the hand in question 3-bets to 900k A A for the opponent’s flat call.
Flop Q 8 7 , ‘iMancio90’ bets half pot, call.
Turn J , ‘iMancio90’ checks, ‘020319909911’ has a pot-sized bet and pushes, ‘iMancio90’ calls and on the 6 river wins the tournament! Here is the hand replay:
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