The EPT Copenhagen Main Event champion Michael Tureniec is up to 425,000 after he was responsible for eliminating Timothy Finne of the USA.
Finne open-shoved from under the gun for what turned out to be 45,600 chips. Everyone folded to Vladimir Geshkenbein in the small blind and was seriously contemplating calling, asking Finne "do you want to flip," but he received no answer. Geshkenbein then folded but Tureniec snap-called in the big blind.
Tureniec:
Finne:
Board:
With that Finne was eliminated and the bubble is now just six players away
Vladimir Geshkenbein has been catapulted towards the very top of the chip counts after doubling up through Michael Tureniec.
Everyone folded to to Geshkenbein in the cutoff seat and he made it 9,000 to play. Tureniec, on the button, responded with a raise of his own, this one to 24,000. Usually this would be enough to end the hand but Geshkenbein had other ideas and made it 62,000 to play!
Tureneic then checked his card and announced "I'm all-in" and was instantly called by the hyper-aggressive Russian.
Geshkenbein:
Tureniec:
The flop came down keeping Geshkenbein in the lead. The turn was the which locked up the hand for Geshkenbein rendering the on the river meaningless.
Tureniec sat motionless whilst Geshkenbein celebrated his huge pot, "There you go. Back to Sweden," said a rather unsporting Geshkenbein, "Back to Sweden."
"Is this your first time playing live?" quizzed a dejected Tureniec.
Geshkenbein now has 590,000 whilst Tureneic plummets to 110,000
Constantin Georgescu pushed preflop and got a call from Daniel Hager, who was suddenly very unhappy about the whole situation when the cards were turned over.
Georgescu:
Hager:
Board:
Georgescu doubled to a much more comfortable 140,000. Hager meanwhile found himself down to just 24,000 - an unenviable position to be in just a couple places off the money. He shoved from the small blind the next hand and got respect, picking up the blinds and antes - but he still looks to be one of the very shortest stacks in the room as the bubble looms.
Giacomo Maisto raised from the cutoff, only to face a reraise to 21,000 from Cynthia Foresti in the small blind. Maisto tanked up for several minutes before making the call.
They saw a flop and Foresti calmly bet out 25,000. Another spell in the tank for Maisto (he's a bit of a tanker in general, is Signor Maisto), before he decided to give Foresti respect and folded. She showed him pocket kings, and they had a short and apparently jovial conversation, the contents of which will remain a mystery as it was largely conducted in Italian.
Tomer Berda opened to 10,000 in early position and Sebastian Ruthenberg, having been crippled moved all-in for his final 28,800 before Morten Mortensen reraised to 100,000, the action went back to Berda who would be all-in if he called.
He thought for a couple of minutes before pointing to Ruthenberg's stack, "That's about 29?"
"That's not important," said Ruthenberg with a smile, "there's 100 over here!
Berda tanked for another minute.
Ruthenberg, "I would like you to call I think, I'm not sure...wait 9 more minutes and we might make the money!"
Berda replied, "I have a hand..."
"We all have hands, as you can see," laughed Ruthenberg.
Berda took off his glasses and furrowed his brow, "I call time," said Ruthenberg. Thomas Kremser came over to the table and told Berda he had one minute to make a decision, finally though the latter folded.
Ruthenberg:
Mortensen:
"What did you have?"
"Tens."
"So call!" said Ruthenberg deadpan.
The board came , no luck for the German and he was knocked out, leaving Michael Tureniec as our only remaining former champion
Sander Benjamins will be the last player to go home from PokerStars.net EPT SNowfest as he has been eliminated in 74th place. I hear you screaming that 73rd is the bubble but alas it no longer is. The Alpine Palace's owner's son, still with me, announced that whoever bursts the bubble will receive a voucher for a "surprise." What that is, is anybody's guess.
Anyway, back to the hand. Benjamins raised to 10,000 under the gun and Martins Adeniya was next to act and he bumped it up to 26,600. The action folded back around to Benjamins and he moved all in and he was snap-called by Adeniya.
Benjamins:
Adeniya:
The flop came down putting Adeniya into the lead and leaving Benjamins drawing very thinly. The on the turn meant he was now drawing to the case queen and it did not materialise as the fell on the river.
Strong deja vu for Russell Carson, having eliminated one player with jacks against ace-king, he's just suffered the other side of the flip against Domantas Klimciauskas, whose held against the Canadian's on a board for a sizeable pot. Carson drops to about 200,000.
We are on the bubble, meaning that several short-stacked players are going to have an uncomfortable 15 minutes in the hallway.
On the plus side, though, Florian Wolf of the Alpine Palace has announced that he will be furnishing the hapless bubbler with a consolation prize comprising a private helicopter tour of the astoundingly beautiful Austrian mountains surrounding us, piloted by none other than Thomas Wolf, proprietor of the Alpine Palace. What a couple of gentlemen.
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, no luck for the German and he was knocked out, leaving Michael Tureniec as our only remaining former champion
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