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15-mins break
Team Pokerstars Pro and EPT Vienna runner-up Martin Hruby has been eliminated. His went head to head with the of Arturo Pierantoni and the board did not offer any salvation for Hruby.
The board was reading and there was a bet of 15,200 in front of Carter Phillips but Lorenzo Sabato had reraised to set the former EPT Barcelona champion all-in. Phillips thought for several minutes, he still had over 100,000 remaining but was covered, so clearly this was a big decision. Finally the clock was called and a member of staff came over to warn Phillips he had a minute to make up his mind.
"It's ok," said Phillips, "I call."
Phillips:
Sabato:
It was looking disastrous for Phillips but the turn improved him to two pair yet he still needed one of the remaining jacks or kings to avoid being eliminated. The then appeared on the river and Sabato looked disgusted and had to leave the table for a minute.
As Phillips scooped the 260,000 chip pot, Tom MacDonald sitting next to him said, "Absolutely snapping him off there, there's so many draws."
"It's the only value hand he can have...I didn't think he 3-bet eights," replied Phillips.
"Sick get there though..."
"It's probably the sickest live suckout I've ever had," agreed the American.
A four-way raised pot saw a flop of which Almira Skripchenko checked, Gerasimos Deres fired out 6,300, Kalle Niemi folded and Cristiano Viali made a big raise to 18,000. Deres thought for a minute and then moved all in, Viali rechecked his cards and called.
Deres:
Viali:
The turn paired the board, as did the river meaning Viali's ace high was still good and he doubled to about 120,000.
Fabrizio Cataldi is also on the Visser/Roy table and has the third biggest chip stack behind the aforementioned two. Cataldi has just dipped down to 140,000 chips though after calling the 18,100 all-in of Arnaud Lombard.
Cataldi:
Lombardi:
Board:
Lombard got up from his seat to leave.
River:
He sat back down again.
Cataldi ~ 140,000
Alain Roy and Team Pokerstars Pro Ruben Visser are seated on table 9 and both of them have very impressive stacks. We just caught them both fighting it out on a flop of . Roy bet 5,700 in the hi-jack and Visser called in the cut-off. Fabrizio Cataldi thought for a long time in the big blind before folding and then the dealer gave us on the turn. Roy bet 11,500 and Visser decided the turn was as far as he was willing to go and ditched his hand.
Roy ~ 221,000
Visser ~ 240,000
Both players were all-in with Riccardo Lombardi holding and Albert Winchester holding .
Board:
Lombardi now has 95,000 in chips eliminating Winchester in the process.
Pieter de Korver opened preflop with and got called by both blinds to see a flop, the small blind led for 4,500, the big blind folded and de Korver moved all in for about 40,000. Quick call from his opponent's and de Korver picked up a gutshot on the turn but the river was the and the Dutchman was out.
Stefan Huber was tanking on the river of a board against Alain Roy. The latter had fired out 20,400 into a pot of about 35,000 against the Austrian, the bet size representing a significant portion of Huber's stack. After almost five minutes, Huber finally made the call and Roy turned over , Huber quickly mucked as the Frenchman moves to about the 200,000 mark.
Nicola Grieco opened to 3,300 from late position and it was passed to Martins Adeniya in the small blind who gave Grieco a long cold stare down before moving all in. It was passed to Grieco who tanked for a minute and then, bizarrely, his phone started to ring. Grieco immediately became much more interested in this phone call and passed his cards almost as an afterthought. Adeniya looked bemused but raked the chips in regardless.