Team Pokerstars Pro Vanessa Rousso, is having a right old natter over at table 23. Unfortunately, her oral skills are not turning out a chip profit. She has been all-in once and won without a showdown but then lost the following hand.
Suat Uyanik opened with a raise to 750 and Rousso called in the seat to his left. The flop was and Uyanik bet 725. Rousso raised to 1,500 (when Uyanik later asked her why she raised Rousso said she was protecting her hand against AK/AQ) and Uyanik called. The turn was the and it seems like the raise on the flop had slowed him down because he now checked. Rousso bet 2,500 - leaving 7,000 behind - and Uyanik called.
Things are not going terribly well for the blinged-up Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Most recently we found him reraising Joe Ebanks preflop - but Ebanks four-bet to around 4,000 over ElkY's 2,125 reraise and ElkY dejectedly folded.
Jeffrey Hakim opened the hand with a min-raise under the gun. Undeterred by this often suspicious move, Hichem Ben Halima reraised to 2,200 in the cutoff and Romain Sidhoum called on the button. Hakim asked Ben Halima how much he had left (answer: 13,000) before flat-calling, and the three of them saw a flop.
Flop:
It checked around to Sidhoum who bet 2,600 - but back to Hakim, who now check-raised to 6,700. Ben Halima quickly gave it up and after a little while Sidhoum did too, leaving Hakim to pick up the pot and thereby bump his stack up to 53,000.
Yes, Alec Torelli couldn't iron out the Kinks in his game today. He was finally all-in preflop with but couldn't catch the board against Samlane Phomveha's after the board came
We got to the table late and the flop and turn had already been dealt.
Board:
Team Pokerstars Pro Vanessa Rousso had bet 1,200, and her opponent, had raised to 2,525. Rousso was counting her stack and she had 15,350 give or take an odd chip. She made the minimum three-bet making it 5,050 to play and her opponent moved all-in.
"I guess you have the king then," she said.
"If you fold I will show you," came the reply.
She did indeed fold and he kept to his word and showed the .
In a hand lasting a couple minutes into the break, popular young Lithuanian Kristijonas Andrulis picked up a very hefty pot and is now at a commanding 85,000.
The board read when we arrived and there was already around 20,000 in the pot. Jean Marc Thomas had checked, and Andrulis had bet 6,000. Thomas tanked, and eventually called - and a moment later he mucked when Andrulis turned over .
Andrulis has a fine record in EPT side events - he took down two side events at EPT Tallinn, including the high roller event, and then won another side event and came second in the high roller at Vilamoura too. His best finish in an EPT Main Event so far was 23rd place at Copenhagen last year, but it's got to be just a matter of time before the affable Litho makes a big splash in one of these.
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and Uyanik bet 725. Rousso raised to 1,500 (when Uyanik later asked her why she raised Rousso said she was protecting her hand against AK/AQ) and Uyanik called. The turn was the 
and it seems like the raise on the flop had slowed him down because he now checked. Rousso bet 2,500 - leaving 7,000 behind - and Uyanik called.
and both players checked.
but couldn't catch the board against Samlane Phomveha's 
after the board came 
when we arrived and there was already around 20,000 in the pot. Jean Marc Thomas had checked, and Andrulis had bet 6,000. Thomas tanked, and eventually called - and a moment later he mucked when Andrulis turned over 
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