  Although the majority of radial velocity detected planets have been found
orbiting solar-type stars, a fraction of them have been discovered around giant
stars. These planetary systems have revealed different orbital properties when
compared to solar-type stars companions. In particular, radial velocity surveys
have shown that there is a lack of giant planets in close-in orbits around
giant stars, in contrast to the known population of hot-Jupiters orbiting
solar-type stars. The reason of this distinctive feature in the semimajor-axis
distribution has been theorized to be the result of the stellar evolution
and/or due to the effect of a different formation/evolution scenario for
planets around intermediate-mass stars. However, in the past few years, a
handful of transiting short-period planets (P$\lesssim$ 10 days) have been
found around giant stars, thanks to the high precision photometric data
obtained initially by the Kepler mission, and later by its two-wheels extension
K2. These new discoveries, have allowed us for the first time to study the
orbital properties and physical parameters of these intriguing and elusive
sub-stellar companions. In this paper we report on an independent discovery of
a transiting planet in field 10 of the K2 mission, also reported recently by
Grunblatt et al. (2017). The main orbital parameters of EPIC\,228754001\,$b$,
obtained with all the available data for the system, are the following: $P$ =
9.1708 $\pm$ 0.0025 $d$, $e$ = 0.290 $\pm$ 0.049, Mp = 0.495 $\pm$ 0.007 Mjup
\,and Rp = 1.089 $\pm$ 0.006 Rjup. This is the fifth known planet orbiting any
giant star with $a < 0.1$, and the most eccentric one among them, making
EPIC\,228754001\,$b$ a very interesting object.
