We caught the action very late in the hand and the board was . There was a pile of chips in the middle and Bryn Kenny had just checked to Team Pokerstars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier who shoved for his remaining 60,000. Kenny made the call and Grospellier turned over for the flush and Kenny mucked his hand.
Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder has just doubled up and here is how it happened.
Arie Ori Miller sat in a stack around ~200,000 opened from early position to 17,500 and Jedynak Radoslaw with a stack around ~118,000 three bet from the cut off making it 45,000 to play. The button moved out of the way and De Meulder shoved all-in for 93,340. Miller asked for a count before finally folding. Radoslaw decided it was his moment and made the call.
Just as I was about to write a post saying how the action had settled down and a touch of normality had been restored, there was a three way all-in!
Jedynak Radoslaw moved all from under the gun for 142,000, Leo Margets was next to act and called the all-in, though Radoslaw had her covered. The action folded around to Arie Ori Miller on the button, who first asked Margets how many chips she had before making the call.
Margets:
Radoslaw:
Miller:
The flop came down prompting a groan from both Margets and Miller as their opponent had flopped a set of jacks, but Miller soon realised he was in the lead as he had flopped top set and nobody held a heart in the hand.
Turn:
River:
With that Margets and Radoslaw left the table as Miller stacked his 340,000 chips.
Andrey Danilyuk raised under the gun and Carlos Lopez Neira flat-called on the button. Danilyuk quickly got out of the way when Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier shoved from the big blind, but it had been rather a sneaky call from Neira as he called all in in a second.
ElkY:
Neira:
But wait! Here comes the ElkY run-good...
Board:
ElkY spiked his nine on the turn to eliminate the unfortunate Neira and is now up to 410,000 - not bad, given that he started the day with just 63,000. We could yet see our first ever two-time EPT winner - not only ElkY, but also his fellow countryman Jan Boubli who won this event way back in Season 2, are both still very much in the running.
Giuseppe Pantaleo is down to 350,000 after doubling up Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez.
Pantaleo opened for 17,000 in the hijack and faced a reraise from Fernandez in the cutoff. Pantaleo went all in to cover Fernandez who after a while in the tank called all in, and they weer on their backs.
Pantaleo:
Fernandez:
Board: 7h3had3sqd]
Fernandez' double up was to 330,000, and the Argentinian is back in the game.