Break O'Clock
15 minutes of milling about.
The next time we break (unless we miraculously make our final table during the next level) it will be for an hour during which time everyone will be encouraged to eat dinner.
15 minutes of milling about.
The next time we break (unless we miraculously make our final table during the next level) it will be for an hour during which time everyone will be encouraged to eat dinner.
No one's rushing a decision now, and they can't be blamed for taking their time. The prize money goes up every two places, and reaching the final table is an accomplishment in itself - every player left in wants to still have a stack of chips in front of him this time tomorrow, be broadcast on the feature table, and have a shot at the title and the €700,000 first prize.
Both tables ended the last level with a bit of a whimper, [Removed:40] and Bruno Launais taking the blinds and antes on each table (Launais doing it with a raise to 75k under the gun).
Matthias Lotze opened for 55,000 under the gun and to his immediate left Bruno Launais called to see a flop. Lotze bet out 66,000, and after a bit of a pause Launais raised to 152,000. Back to Lotze, though, who now made it 220,000 to go. Launais looked frustrated as he folded, and dropped to 1.6 million. Lotze meanwhile is near the million mark.
Michael Eiler is not the only gent at the TV table taking chunks out of Daniel Negreanu's formerly chip-leading stack.
It folded around to Balazs Botond in the cutoff who raised to 52,000. Daniel Negreanu flat called on the button and they saw a flop.
Botond bet out 60,000 and undeterred, Negreanu called. But the 100,000 bet from Botond in the turn proved too much for the Canadian, and he gave it up.
Negreanu - 2.1 million
Botond - fighting back with 850,000
Pokerstars Online Qualifier Michael Eiler does not get star struck - that is for sure! The German qualifier who includes a Pokerstars Sunday Million win in his CV clashed with Tom Dwan on day 2 and came out on top in a few skirmishes and today his star target is Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu. I am not sure if it was a game plan of Eiler to put extreme pressure on Negreanu pre flop but it is happening and more importantly for Eiler it is working. This is the second time Eiler has four-bet all-in for over 1.8 million in reaction to a three-bet from Negreanu.
Eiler opens up from late position to 57,000 and Negreanu three-bets 100,000 more and Eiler just moved all-in. Negreanu was perplexed and eventually folded after declaring, "I am going to let you have this one." Eiler just smiled.
Keep your eye on Eiler.
It has been a fine run but Tonio Röder will not be making our final table at this years EPT in Vienna after busting out in 15th place. The short stacked Röder shoved when the action folded around to him on the Button and Andreas Wiese also shoved all-in from the Small Blind. Jose Severino folded in the Big Blind after showing Wiese a which was not something Wiese wanted to see as he was holding . Röder held .
Board:
Röder out in 15th place.
Wiese: ~ 561,000
You know how one piranha won't get far with a whole cow, but a lot of them together eat one in lots of little bites? That's started to happen to chip leader Konstantinos Nanos (although it will take a long time to dent his stack of three million).
Jose Severino received a call of his preflop cutoff raise from Nanos, who then checked the flop. Severino immediately counted out 80k, bet it and sat under the stare of the chip leader for about half a minute (although it seems like these two might just see an infinitely reflected series of themselves in each other's shiny black sunglasses). Eventually Nanos passed.
The next hand Nanos limped in when it folded to him on the small blind, but passed quickly when Bruno Launais put in a raise.
Team Pokerstars Pro Toni Judet has been eliminated in 16th place. This is how his final hand played out.
Bruno Launais opened to 54,000 under the gun and everyone folded around to Judet who made the call from the Big Blind. The flop was and Judet checked over to the raiser Launais who made a bet of 62,000 and Judet made the call. The turn was the and Judet again checked but this time very quickly. Launais, who was having a very rigorous massage at this point, fired his double barrel. "How much is that?" asked Judet and the Dealer announced it was 108,000. Judet took his time and diligently counted out the 108,000 and for a while it looked like he was going to make the call but at the last moment added a further 112,000 and instead made the raise. Launais looked at the Dealer and verbally declared he was all-in and Judet called. As we waited for the cameras to arrive at the table Judet asked Launais what he held and you could see the dejected look of the Team Pokerstar Pros forlonged face.
Judet:
Launais:
River:
Launais moves up to 1.9 million
A good quarter of an hour has been showdown-free (wouldn't it be fun to have real-time hole card cameras, apart from the obvious problems?) and the deck has not been hitting more than one player at once. In fact it's not even apparent that even one player has a genuine hand - more like an eye for an open spot and a shortish stack.
After Cainelli, Morten Erlandsen's been the most keen on threebet shoving preflop.
Forecast: Erlandsen, Danish, 370,000, rising very slowly, good.
Cainelli, Italian, 430,000, squeeze of Pantazedis and caller, rising quickly, fair.
Up on the feature table, Luca Cainelli shoved two hands in a row. Both times he picked up the blinds and antes - significant pots in relation to his stack - and remains hovering near the bottom of the chip counts for the moment on around 380,000.