It might just be in the stars that Martin Jacobson will win this tournament. He's taken out the dangerous Vladimir Troyanovski in a pot worth around 600,000 chips.
All the chips went in preflop with Jacobson holding ace-king to Troyanovski's pocket jacks. The overnight chip leader couldn't hold and leaves four places short of the money.
Somehow Martin Jacobson is still in this tournament despite running kings into the aces of Kevin MacPhee.
Jacobson was just moved onto the table and three-bet a MacPhee button raise whilst in the big blind. MacPhee called pre flop, a flop bet and a 36,000 turn bet before both players checked the river. The final board read .
Jacobson opened and a shocked MacPhee opened .
"Nits!", "Wow!", and "Sick!" came out of the mouths of the other table mates.
The pot went to MacPhee who's up to 320,000; Jacobson dropped to 108,000.
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JC Alvarado will hope to be toasting another successful day
After a long day's play yesterday 51 players return for Day 2 of the PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville High Roller Event hoping for another long day. Registration is still open for the first level of today so we may see some new faces try their luck; we may also see some of the returning short stacks bust and use their second bullet if they haven't already done so.
Vladimir Troyanovski flopped quads early on against Roberto Romanello and hardly looked back as he ended the day as chip leader on 266,000. Close behind are the familiar faces of Kevin Vandermissen and JC Alvarado.
Since registration is still open until play starts we have no news on the prize pool but we'll post that as soon as we have. Cards will be in the air at 12pm CET.
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