Liv Boeree Wins EPT San Remo

In 2008 Liv Boeree announced her presence on the European poker scene with a win at the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship. Yesterday in San Remo she went one step further by becoming only the second female winner on the European Poker Tour. Boeree fought back from a 4:1 chip deficit three handed to take first prize and the €1,250,000.

The final table in San Remo was as follows at the start of the day:

Seat 1: Claudio Piceci – 4,460,000
Seat 2: Alexey Rybin – 1,890,000
Seat 3: Atanas Gueorguiev – 2,520,000
Seat 4: Jakob Carlsson – 13,525,000
Seat 5: Giuseppe Diep – 1,830,000
Seat 6: Liv Boeree – 3,440,000
Seat 7: Toni Pettersson – 5,035,000
Seat 8: Michael Piper – 4,600,000

Atanas Gueorguiev was first to leave after he lost a race with his 99 against Toni Pettersson’s AQ to leave himself with only 200,000 in chips. He was out shortly after his J6 losing to Alexey Rybin’s KJ. Caludio Piceci was next to go after bluffing at a big pot with Carlsson holding top pair. Carlsson made the call and Piceci was out in seventh place. Giuseppe Diep followed swiftly as his pre flop all in with 9c8c lost to Carlsson’s pocket 10s. Rybin left in fifth place after flopping top pair top kicker on a 10 8 2 board only for Carlsson to turn over pocket jacks.

Michael Piper was out in fourth place his Qh10h losing to the AK of Carlsson after all the chips went in pre-flop. As we went three handed Jakob Carlsson held 25 million chips to Pettersson’s 6 million and Boeree’s 5.5 million. Three handed was a real battle and Boeree started to accumulate chips. The big hand saw Pettersson flop top pair on a Kd4s3s board with KQ in the hole. All the chips went in after some serious tanking from Pettersson. Boeree was only too happy to turn over her pocket 3s and the bottom set.

Heads up lasted a couple of hours with a dinner break in the middle. Boeree was able to dominate the confrontation and capitalised on her chip lead. All the chips finally went in pre-flop with Boeree’s 55 against Carlsson’s A6. With no Ace or six Boeree was free to pick up the winner’s cheque.

The Final Standings:

1 – Liv Boeree — €1,250,000
2 – Jakob Carlsson — €750,000
3 – Toni Pettersson — €420,000
4 – Michael Piper — €345,000
5 – Alexey Rybin — €270,000
6 – Giuseppe Diep — €210,000
7 – Claudio Piceci — €150,000
8 – Atanas Gueorguiev — €90,000