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Ruslan Prydryk's tournament life has come to an end, pushing all-in with over the top of Aurelien Guiglini's preflop raise but the Frenchman made the call with and held on a board to increase his own stack to 325,000.
Ruslan Prydryk's tournament life has come to an end, pushing all-in with over the top of Aurelien Guiglini's preflop raise but the Frenchman made the call with and held on a board to increase his own stack to 325,000.
Online qualifier Philipp Uhrig got his mere 65,000 stack in with and stayed ahead of Mario Adinolfi's all the way up to the river of the board when Adinolfi made a straight.
The Italian is now up to 560,000.
Salman Behbehani moved all-in preflop with , getting called by Cuello Jorge Mariano's .
The board came and Behbehani's tournament life was over.
Thorsten Schafer opened preflop to 18,000 and Per Linde flat-called behind him before it was passed around Kristijonas Andrulis in the blinds, the Lithuanian making it 57,500 to go.
Schafer quickly folded but Linde took more time, before deciding, "I'm all-in."
"I call," said Andrulis turning over .
"I'll have the nuts eventually..." joked Linde showing
But the board couldn't help Linde, it came and Andrulis added the Swede's stack to his own. He's over the million mark.
Martin Genath has been eliminated by Maksim Kolosov. To be fair, almost a quarter of his stack was in the pot preflop as the 8,000 big blind, and he shrug-moved in when Kolosov had opened for 18k. On their backs!
Kolosov:
Genath:
"My favourite hand!" encouraged Kolosov. He probably wanted to stick with his A-Q, though, especially as the board came a massive .
Tristan Clemencon has been knocked out, pushing his last 85,000 in preflop with UTG. Maksim Kolosov snap-called in the big blind with and the board ran out .
We established after the event through the medium of eavesdropping that Dara O'Kearney had raised from the button and then called a reraise from Daniel Pidun in the big blind to see a flop when all the chips went in. This was the point at which we arrived tableside, so we witnessed the rest for ourselves.
O'Kearney: for an open-ended straight draw
Pidun: a now rather speculative
-A pause of some minutes while the TV crew did their thing.-
Turn:
River:
O'Kearney's straight never came in and Pidun's ace kicker with the two pair on the board was good. He doubled to around 450,000, while O'Kearney was crippled to just 25,000 or so. The table was immediately broken, and Pidun thanked the dealer in Hebrew - who told him, "No problem," also in Hebrew. Most surprising.
Michal Kusak has been knocked out by Joep van den Bijgaart, the Dutch Team PokerStars pro holding to Kusak's with the board coming . Van den Bijgaart is up to 370,000.
Another flurry of action as all the chips went in preflop between Rainer Emde's and Jonas Gutteck's in a Germany vs Germany battle.
The flop came and Gutteck improved to a pair, now just needing a king or running cards to overcome Emde's aces. The turn brought the possibility of a chop but the river was the to some serious groans.
"My first ever massive suckout at an EPT!" said an overjoyed Gutteck. He's up to 300,000 while Emde drops to just 60,000.
All in for just 58,000 preflop Dara O'Kearney held the small but live . Thorsten Schäfer held which was resoundingly beaten by a board. O'Kearney has won Grinder of the Tournament with this, the final straw after nursing a perilously short stack for an incredible amount of time.