Koen de Visscher raised to 10,500 in the hijack seat and Tobias Garp came into the action with a three-bet from the button to the tune of 26,500. Georges Yazbeck was seated in the small blind with the short stack and he moved all-in for 37,500. De Visscher folded and Garp threw in the last few coins and made the call.
Ioannis Papathanasioy is a very angry man, he just held on the river of a board and bet/called the river against David Elyashar only to find the latter with for a huge pot worth around 500,000. Papathanasioy dropped to 90,000 as a result.
After Jason Wheeler managed to survive with against when the board came , ("the $6,000 ten," Wheeler called it) attention was turned to another table.
Roman Makhlin had moved all in for his last 18,500 from UTG.
He then proceeded to wander off away from the table and tell one of his friends on the other side of the room that he was all in.
"Wait...what?" said big blind Rupert Elder as a crowd swelled around the table.
Finally Makhlin came back to the table and Christopher Lastiwka moved all in behind him and the blinds folded. Makhlin was told if he won the hand he'd be getting a penalty anyway.
Makhlin:
Lastiwka:
Makhlin was ahead but the board ran out meaning the Russian was out and everyone had made it into the money.
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Rupert Elder not afraid to put his chips in the middle.
It is not often that this happens, but one of the tournaments chip leaders was very nearly the EPT Loutrakis bubble boy. Rupert Elder and Ioannis Papathanasioy have been having a personal duel, all afternoon, with Papathanasioy winning the bigger pots. Then we had one of the most exciting hands of the tournament so far.
Rupert Elder raised to 10,000 from under the gun and Jude Ainsworth called in mid-position. Next to play was Ioannis Papathanasioy from the button and he squeezed out a three-bet to 33,500. Back onto Rupert Elder and he counted out a four-bet of 78,500 and confidently moved them into the pot. Ainsworth folded and Papathanasioy made the call.
Flop:
Elder was first to act and he bet 65,000 into a pot of 170,000 and Papathanasioy made the call.
Turn:
Checkity-check.
River:
By this time the play had stopped on every table and the crowds around the table were ridiculous.
"I am all-in," said Elder before moving all of his stack into the middle.
Papathanasioy couldn't believe it. A wrong call in this situation and he would be our unlikely bubble boy. A right call in this situation and he would move towards 1 million in chips. Papathanasioy asked for a count and it was 283,000. You could tell that Papathanasioy had a very strong hand but after a lot of hustling and bustling in the crowd and a lot of thinking by Papathanasioy, he eventually folded his hand.
"Show the bluff," commentated Ainsworth.
Elder peeked at his cards and quietly slid them to the dealer.
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, Tobias Garp bet 26,000 into a pot of 53,000 and Dimitris Mpinas raised to 65,000. Garp asked for a quick count before making the call.
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