Andriy Lyubovetskiy managed to get his stack of around 10,000 all in preflop and was squaring off against the opponent to his direct right, Pisarev Denis Vladimirovich.
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Lyubovetskiy
Vladimirovich
Vladimirovich was ahead with ace high, but Lyubovetskiy was drawing live. Unfortunately for the latter, her would be left wanting as the board ran out .
2012 World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Ronnie Bardah is known for calling his opponents "faces" and loves to "smash faces" when he plays, hence the title of this post. He's also known to many by his nickname, "RoNasty." Bardah began the day on the secondary feature table, seated with "faces" Theo Jorgensen, Vladimir Troyanovskiy and defending EPT Barcelona champion Martin Schleich.
On this hand, Bardah opened with a raise to 1,700 from middle position and Troyanovskiy called from the big blind. The flop came down and Troyanovskiy checked. Bardah fired 1,900 and Troyanovskiy check-raised to 4,200. Bardah took a minute, then called.
The landed on the turn and Troyanovskiy led with a bet of 7,200. Bardah studied, then raised all in for 34,800. Troyanovskiy tanked, then called holding the for top pair and a gutshot straight draw to Broadway. Bardah held the best of it with the for two pair, aces and jacks. To win the hand and bust Bardah, Troyanovskiy needed a king on the river. He could chop the pot if a queen paired the board.
The dealer burned a final time and dealt the on fifth street, giving Troyanovskiy two pair, but a losing two pair. Bardah's was better and he doubled to over 80,000 in chips.
This summer at the WSOP, Bardah took down Event 40: $2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed to win his first gold bracelet. He followed that up with a cash in the WSOP Main Event for the third year running.
Below you can find two Seat Open videos with Bardah, parts one and two. In the first, Bardah opens up about his family and his life before discovering poker. In the second, Bardah talks about his poker-specific journey and the major turning points in his career that have brought him to where he is today.
PokerNews has just been informed that the total field size for the 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona Main Event is 1,082 players. The prize pool and payout information is currently being generated and we'll post that for you shortly.
We're not sure of the details, but we can confirm that Gaelle Baumann, who bubbled the final table of this year's World Series of Poker Main Event, has been eliminated from the tournament. Baumann began the day on a short stack of just 13,200.
Terje "Terken89" Augdal, who is a fixture at the high-stakes cash games on PokerStars and regularly featured in PokerNews' Online Railbird Report, was all in preflop for around 12,500 and at risk against Ibrahim Ghassan.
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Augdal
It was a flip, but Augdal needed to improve to stay alive. The flop wasn't what he had in mind, but the turn was just what the doctor ordered. The river was of no consequence and Augdal received a much-needed double.
Clement Bonin opened from middle position for 1,600 and received a call from Darko Stojanovic in the cutoff. PokerStars Team Pro Theo Jorgensen was on the button and opted for a three-bet to 4,600, which only Bonin called.
The flop saw Stojanovic check-call a bet of 5,500, and then both players checked the turn. The river saw Stojanovic check for a third time, but instead of checking behind, Jorgensen fired out 16,000. Stojanovic thought for a long time before making the call only to muck when Jorgensen rolled over for a rivered pair of kings.
Former EPT London champion David Vamplew raised to 1,600 from middle position before action folded to Marc-Andre Ladouceur in the cutoff seat. He reraised to 3,800 and play folded back to Vamplew. He took his time, then four-bet to 8,100. Ladouceur folded and Vamplew won the pot.
Back in 2010, Vamplew won EPT London for a massive £900,000 after defeating a field of 848 players. After this pot, he's moved up to 36,000 in chips.
The 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona Main Event has officially drawn 1,082, making it the largest event in the event's history. That created a €5,247,700 that will be distributed to the top 160 players as follows: