An interesting hand just handed Michael Tureniec over a million of his recently-donated chips back. Starting with Tureniec on the button raising and getting called, the flop brought [5j Jd 5c]. Check to Tureniec, who bet 200k. Linde called, and following the pattern of quite a few of their previous hands, there was no bet on the turn. The river paired the and Linde bet out 325k. Tureniec counted out a raise, and upped the bet to 950k. Linde made the call, but mucked when he saw Tureniec's .
Michael Tureniec won the next three hands as well.
Hand #190
Per Linde min-raised the button but folded to Tureniec's 425,000 three-bet.
Hand #191
Tureniec raised his button and Linde folded.
Hand #192
Remember, this was the hand that the random emailer to EPT Live predicted would be the last of the tournament. What crazy Scandie-on-Scandie action could Hand #192 hold in store for us?
Michael Tureniec opened to 180,000 and Per Linde called once more. Linde check-raised Tureniec's 200,000 bet to 550,000 on a flop of and Tureniec instantly folded.
Linde opened to 160,000 and Tureniec made the call to see a raggy looking flop of . Tureniec checked, Linde bet 200,000 and this time Tureniec check-raised to 550,000 and it was Linde's turn to fold.
Tureniec raised to 180,000 but Linde made it 500,000, that was enough for Tureniec to give it up.
There's few very flops going on at the moment and almost all pots are going with the player in position
I'm not 100% sure what hen's teeth are, but they're probably found more often than a button limp from these two. Four preflop pots went back and forth, before finally Michael Tureniec called a big blind three-bet from Per Linde (500k). The flop came down and Tureniec folded to a 450k bet out from the shorter stack.
Tureniec immediately returned to winning pots after that last Linde-favouring one.
Per Linde min-raised the button but Tureniec called. They both checked the flop and Tureniec bet out 200,000 on the turn. It was enough to push Linde off the pot, and Tureniec took it down.
Michael Tureniec opened to 180,000 and Per Linde made the call in the big blind.
Flop:
Linde checked and Tureniec fired out 200,000 but Linde wasn't going anywhere and made the call.
Turn:
Linde checked again and this time Tureniec bet 500,000 but Linde called a second time as the pot swelled over the million mark.
River:
Linde checked a final time and Tureniec now made the biggest bet of the heads up battle, 1.4 million was pushed over the line. Linde looked very uncomfortable at this point and thought for a couple of minutes before calling. Tureniec showed to win a 3 million chip pot, Linde has been crippled, will this prove decisive?
Button raise from Per Linde (160k). Pressure was duly applied by Michael Tureniec, resulting in a quick fold. We can sense an all-in moment coming soon...
Tureniec called Linde's button raise and they saw a flop of . Check to Linde, who bet 200k, getting a fold and hoisting himself over the 2 million chip mark once again.
Just a few chips headed back into Per Linde's severely depleted stack, as he limped in on the button and Michael Tureniec checked his option. Tureniec bet out 100,000 on the flop, but Linde raised to 300,000 and Tureniec was suddenly no longer interested.
Linde won another couple of small pots after that, and is now at 2.255 million to Tureniec's 11.215 million.
Just as it looked like Per Linde was heading feltwards for the second time, he found on the button and duly refused to back down when the aggressive Tureniec raised him with . The board ran out and while not back to square one exactly, Tureniec has to fight on.