Gorodetskiy Relief
Last year's 16th place finisher Ilya Gorodetskiy has doubled up. We only caught the very very tail end of the hand, but it was enough to see that Gorodetskiy was holding on a board. He's still pretty short though.
Last year's 16th place finisher Ilya Gorodetskiy has doubled up. We only caught the very very tail end of the hand, but it was enough to see that Gorodetskiy was holding on a board. He's still pretty short though.
Mayu Roca Uribe is out and Max Heinzelmann up to 400,000 after the following clinical encounter:
Roca:
Heinzelmann:
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Pocket kings are all over the place this level. Konstantin Puchkov played them by flat calling a raise preflop in the big blind, then check-raising a flop and getting paid 139,500 by .
Qualifier David Stogel had just 60,000 and got it in preflop with his kings vs. Mario Adinolfi's . These held but Adinolfi just chuckled (he has 610,000).
Finally Erich Kollmann was another preflop all-in cowboy-holder vs. the of [Removed:285]. The crowd was so intense around this particular table that his chip count will have to come separately, later.
Jean-Phillipe Raymond has eliminated Alek Samardzic with against the of the Croatian online qualifier. The board came and Raymond is up to 300,000.
Mathew Frankland has also been eliminated from the feature table, apparently losing out with against
Former EPT champion Joao Barbosa is now grinding a short stack of just 47,500 after losing a big pot to Dara O'Kearney.
The Irishman was all-in with against Barbosa's and held on a board of to increase his own stack to 167,000.
It looked as though Bolivar Palacios had made the opening raise to 13,500 and Timo Pfützenreuter had called behind before Kent Lundmark made it 24,600 to go. Back to Palacios , who now made it 66,500. Pfützenreuter folded, but after a bit of a tank, Lundmark made the call.
They saw a flop and Palacios now tanked up for a while before betting out 71,000. Another dwell-up from Lundmark, and then a shove for what looked like over 300,000.. Palacios shook his head and folded, and the EPT Barcelona champion picked up the chunky pot to put him up to around 530,000.
British youngster Rupert Elder is out after pushing all-in for 110,000 preflop with and getting snap-called by Andreas Doletzki's which made the nuts on an board.
Dean Lyall is busto after failing to outflip online qualifier Marco Morales, who is now up to 620,000.
Lyall:
Morales:
Board:
Joao Barbosa was down to just 40,000 or so when he went all in with . Aurelien Guiglini tanked for some time in the big blind before making the call with . It was a decision that worked out well for him - the board ran out to eliminate the EPT Warsaw winner and put Guiglini up to 325,000.
A huge pot was being played out between Hugo Lemaire and Alessandro Laubinger where the board was reading , Lemaire had checked the river and Laubinger bet a substantial 125,000 into what was already a pot of around 250,000.
The Frenchman looked apprehensive but slowly pushed out a call, Laubinger turned over for top set and Lemaire mucked, the German is now over the 1 million mark while his opponent is left short.