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Luca Pagano, Teddy Sheringham, Fatima Moreira de Melo and David Williams share the stories of
their worst wrong lay down

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PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura Final Table Player Profiles
Seat 1: Teddy Sheringham, 44, UK, Friend of PokerStars – 1,783,000 Teddy Sheringham is an
England soccer legend who scored over 350 goals in a 23-year career that included spells at
Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur. His achievements in the game
include winning the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League. He also played for England
51 times, scored 11 goals and was part two World Cup squads. Since turning to poker in recent
years, he has some impressive results including his biggest cash – 14th place in last year’s WSOP-E
Main Event for £40,481. That result was followed a few weeks later with 49th place at EPT London
for £ 11,600 and he came 103rd at the EPT Grand Final last season for €20,000. Teddy started Day 4
having already played six holes of golf in the EPT Vilamoura Fairways & Felts Challenge alongside
Daniel Negreanu and Marcin Horecki.
Seat 2: Toby Lewis, 20, UK, PokerStars player – 3,322,000 PokerStars player Toby Lewis, 20, was
already thriving when he won a big pot on Day 4 against Swedish PokerStars qualifier (and former
chip leader) Martin Jacobson. Lewis, who hails from Southampton but now lives in London, has
played several EPTs and cashed in Prague and the Grand Final last season. He also came 7th at the
PokerStars IPT event in Venice for €25,000 and 12th at the recent PokerStars Russian Poker Series
event in Riga for €5,250.
Seat 3: Martin Jacobson, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier – 441,000 PokerStars qualifier Martin
Jacobson had a rough Day 4, losing several flips which massively dented his stack, but the talented
pro has still managed to make the final table. He already has a string of great results to his name
including third place at EPT Budapest for €197,904, runner-up at WPT Venice last year for €238,840
and a fourth place finish in the World Series $1,500 side event this summer for $183,345. His live
tournament winnings are already close to $1 million.
Seat 4: Jason “JaspudUF” Lee, 25, Florida, USA PokerStars qualifier – 1,167,000 Jason doesn’t like
long-haul flights much, so he has only played one EPT before – Copenhagen in Season 5 (and he
didn’t cash). He has scored a couple of minor cashes in the live arena with a $2,025 finish in a $1k
event at this year’s WSOP and another $2,099 in another Vegas tournament in July of this year but
he’s mainly an online pro, playing as “JaspudUF”. He’s cashed for $428,025 in PokerStars
tournaments..and has made several other five-figure scores. His biggest online win was $42,000.
According to Lee’s twitter account, he “loves working out, kickboxing and making people laugh”.
He’s being railed in Vilamoura by his great friends Norwegian pro Annette Obrestad and American
Scott Montgomery.
Seat 5: Sergio Coutinho, 30, Oporto, Portugal – 872,000 Coutinho has played two EPTs so far – San
Remo and Vilamoura last season – but this is his first EPT cash. He was training in physical education
until 2005 and turned pro as a poker player around three years ago. This is his best live result but he
has made the final of several major online tournaments. He said: “I’ve been doing well online so I
thought eventually I had to make a final table in a live event as well.” He has come second and third
in major online events as well as coming second in the PokerStars Sunday Second Chance
tournament. Last December, he came 11th here in Vilamoura in the €1,000 PokerStars Solverde
Poker Season main event.
Seat 6: Sam Trickett, 24, Nottingham, UK – 3,318,000 British pro Sam Trickett soared into the lead at
EPT Vilamoura when he won a massive pot to knock out Italian Marco Leonzio. That made him the
first player to over the 2,000,000 chip mark. Trickett has been playing poker, both live and online, for
around six years. This is his third EPT, but first cash (he has played the last two EPT London events).
His best live result to date was runner-up to Jason DeWitt in the WSOP $5,000 NLHE event this
summer for over $500k but he has had several other big scores including fourth place in the 2008
WSOP $5k NLHE event and winning the Luton GUKPT in 2008.
Seat 7: Rob Hollink, 48, Groningen, Netherlands – 259,000 chips Father-of-three Hollink was the
first ever EPT Grand Final champion back in Season 1 in 2005. The veteran Dutch pro has played
numerous EPTs since but has never again mirrored that early success. Before reaching Vilamoura this
year, he wrote on his blog that he was likely to bust in the first few days so he would have plenty of
time to play golf. How wrong he was! His last EPT cash was San Remo in Season 4. He also became
the first ever Dutch WSOP bracelet winner when he won the $10,000 Limit Hold’Em World
championships in 2008 for almost $500,000. He is currently the final table short stack but still in with
a chance of being the first ever double EPT champion.
Seat 8: Frederik Jensen, 28, Denmark, PokerStars player – 375,000 Also known as Frederik Brink
Jensen, this young Danish pro has had a stunning 2010 so far. It’s actually the first year he has ever
cashed in a major live tournament but he started spectacularly, finishing second at the Aussie
Millions for over $1 million. In April he had his first ever EPT cash (78th at San Remo for € 13,000)
and then two weeks later came third in the €5,000 NLHE side event at the EPT Grand Final for
€102,900. His best online result was winning the PokerStars Sunday Million in August 2008 for
$205,000. He also came 25th in the SCOOP Main Event this spring.

Other Team PokerStars Pros that finished well in the Main Event included British pro JP Kelly and Gualter
Salles from Brazil, who both survived to Day 6. Salles, a former racing car driver, had a remarkable experience
recovering from just a single $1k chip early on Day 5 to a peak of $1.5 million before busting in 117th place for
$57,102.ı JP Kelly was finally ousted in 111th place, also for $57,102.
New Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, winner of the PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun event in
Connecticut in April, cashed in 476th place forı$27,519. Her fellow team members Jason Mercier and Greg
DeBora from Canada also min-cashed on Day 5, while Humberto Brenes from Costa Rica andıFriend of
PokerStars Pierre Neuville from Belgium both made the money on Day 4.
Mercier cashed an impressive six times during the whole Series but his best finish was tenth place in the PLO
World Championship for $50,867. Brenes’ 736th place finish in the Main Event, for $19,263, was his 58th WSOP
cash, making him one of the most prolific WSOP earners of all time. He is now in joint sixth place in the “All
Time WSOP Cashes” list.
Young Michiel Sijpkens from Holland was the best-placed PokerStars qualifier in the Main Event. The 21-yearold
from Rotterdam, one of the youngest entrants this year, won his seat only six weeks after his birthday in a
$33 rebuy on PokerStars. He finished 19th for a $317,161 payday. His performance was the second best
Dutch result ever in the Main Event, after Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske came tenth in the Main Event for
$373,000 in 2004.
Outside of the Main Event, Pat Pezzin, one of four new Team PokerStars Pro Canada members, nearly
matched this year’s record for most cashes during the Series with seven overall. Russian Team PokerStars
Pro Alex Kravchenko and Victor Ramdin both cashed six times.
Five Team PokerStars Pros competed in the Tournament of Champions, a $500,000 free-roll whose 27
participants were all WSOP bracelet winners and voted into the event by the public. Daniel Negreanu came
sixth, Barry Greenstein came fifth and former world champion Joe Hachem came fourth, each winning
$25,000.
It’s now become a given that the PokerStars party is the biggest and most spectacular celebration of the World
Series, if not the entire poker year. This year’s gathering was no exception. As well as winning their seats,
accommodation and spending money, PokerStars qualifiers were guests of honour at the lavish bash, mingling
with Team PokerStars Pros and other stars as aerialists, podium dancers, roller-skaters and Canadian singer
Esthero provided non-stop entertainment into the small hours at the spectacular Rain Nightclub. Rap superstar
Snoop Dogg, a keen poker player himself, was the headline act and had the room rocking into the small hours
– a fitting sequel to last year’s performance by Nelly.

Williams is one of the most successful poker players of all time, with big results in both No Limit Hold’em
and mixed games. He has performed well playing in the biggest cash games around and to date has
acquired $7,923,630 in live tournament winnings. Like so many others who have gone on to become big
winners, Williams started out playing Magic: The Gathering, the collectible card game, and this ultimately
introduced him to poker.
Success took off for him when he came runner-up to fellow Team PokerStars Pro Greg Raymer in the
2004 WSOP* main event. He may not have taken top spot, but he still walked away with a massive
$3,500,000. This kick-started a fine run of tournament success, including a 7 Card Stud WSOP* bracelet
in 2006. More recently, he took down the WPT Championship for a cool $1,530,537. Williams is also a
big name online, with a PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title in an 8-Game
tournament for a cash of $107,800 in 2009.

Amazingly, Williams still finds time to play Magic: The Gathering with other poker pros. But as a new
Team PokerStars Pro, he’s looking forward to conjuring up even bigger tournament winnings.
Vanessa Selbst graduated from Yale with a degree in Political Science and is currently studying at Yale
Law School. She’s been a lifelong fan of games, including anything from cards to Pacman, and her love
of poker grew from there. In the space of just a few years, Selbst has built an incredible set of results at
major live tournaments, boasting $1,672,855 in live tournament earnings to date.
She made her first WSOP* final table in 2006, when she finished 7th in a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em
event, winning $101,285. Two years later, she won a WSOP* bracelet playing a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha
event, cashing $227,993 and beating a daunting field of 759. Selbst earned her biggest win earlier this
year, taking top spot in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event.
She took down the tournament for a huge cash of $750,000, confirming her status as a highly talented
poker player.

All this, and Selbst is still at Law School. An amazing start to a poker career that, with the backing of
PokerStars, looks set to deliver many more winning verdicts.
Williams and Selbst play online at PokerStars.com using the screen names ‘dwilliams’ and ‘V. Selbst’
respectively. For more details, visit: www.pokerstars.net

Running from August 14-18, 2010, The Empire State Hold’em Championship will be sponsored by
PokerStars.net and will feature a $2,500 buy-in main event open to all players of 18 years of age and
older. This is an exciting new collaboration for PokerStars.net in New York State and should prove a
popular draw for many players.

Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona was opened in 1993 and boasts a spacious 32 table poker
room, plus 60 additional tournament tables. It also offers Vegas style gaming, some of the country’s top
award-winning championship golf courses, numerous restaurants and world class entertainment.
All this makes for the ideal venue for the player party, hosted by the resort and PokerStars.net, on the
eve of the main event, on August 13 at 8pm at Lava Night Club.
Jason DiBenedetto, Director of Poker Operations at Turning Stone Resort and Casino, states: “We are
very excited about our new partnership with PokerStars.net and look forward to welcoming players to
Turning Stone Resort for this premier poker event. There will be preliminary events beginning on August
9 leading up to the main event and several events running after the main event through August 22.” For
more details, visit: www.turningstone.com .
As usual, players can win their seats into the Empire State Championship on PokerStars.net. The
package, worth $4,000, includes main event buy-in, six nights’ accommodation and travel expenses.
Qualifying events can be found in the PokerStars.net lobby under tourney >> regional.
However, there will be more going on than just the main event. Team PokerStars.net Pro Vanessa
Rousso will be hosting a ‘Bigslick Boot Camp’ on August 13 at 1pm. Players can win their entry into the
boot camp online at www.pokerstars.net or by buying-in directly via the Boot camp website:
http://www.bigslickbootcamp.com .

“I am very excited about this PokerStars.net sponsored event!” says Rousso. “It’s the perfect setting to
run one of the Bigslick Boot Camps and I’m really excited to be coaching this session the day before the
Main Event.”

For more details on the Empire State Hold’em Championship, go to the website:

http://www.pokerstars.net/poker/promotions/empire-state-championship/

The PokerStars ARJEL application was submitted on May 19, 2010 and met all ARJEL licence
specification requirements. From now on, PokerStars.fr will enable French players initially to play free
money tournaments and sit and gos. PokerStars.fr will begin running cash games once the regulations
of the French government for online poker have been published. This looks likely to happen tomorrow,
Wednesday June 30.

The launch of PokerStars.fr signals a milestone addition to the PokerStars family, following on from
PokerStars being granted a licence to operate PokerStars.it in Italy in October 2008.
“Players on PokerStars.fr will have fantastic new opportunities, not only to play online but to win seats to
famous international poker events like the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour and the World Series
of Poker in Las Vegas,” said Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier. “These tournaments
require players to have the right mix of skill, training and concentration, and PokerStars.fr will be the
perfect place for players to work on that.”
The success of players such as Team PokerStars Pros Grospellier, along with Arnaud Mattern and
Thomas Bichon, has fuelled the phenomenal growth in popularity poker has experienced across France,
along with major tournaments such as those on the PokerStars European Poker Tour, an event of which
is played in Deauville, while the Grand Final takes place in Monte Carlo. In addition, French rugby
international Sebastian Chabal and tennis pro Gaels Monfils are ambassadors for PokerStars and play
online on PokerStars as well as at live PokerStars events.

“PokerStars.fr aims to be one of the leading online poker operators from the day the French market
opens, offering players the best tournaments, promotions and opportunities to win seats at PokerStars
world renowned international tournaments,” said PokerStars French Country Manager Alexandre
Balkany.

For more information, go to: www.pokerstars.fr