Boyard takes it on the chin
Eyal Avitan raised to 90,000 in the cutoff, and Sebastien Boyard on the button made it 360,000, with 590,000 behind. Back to Avitan - who announced all in. He pushed all his blue 10,000 denomination chips into the middle, for emphasis.
Boyard stood up and walked off. He came back and dwelled up. He put his hands on his head and stared at the ceiling for a while possibly for inspiration. He scrunched his face up like he might cry, then suddenly went blank and rubbed his hands together crazily. Then he called.
Boyard:
Avitan:
Board: an unequivocal
"YES! YES!" OHHHH!" said Avitan, clearly overcome.
"Don't forget to smile!" Priyan de Mel reminded him.
Evgeniy Zaytsev - 14th Place
Anthony Roux kicked off the action with an under-the-gun raise to 70,000. Two seats over, Evgeniy Zaytsev reraised all in for 930,000 total. When it came back around to Roux (quickly), he shrugged and shook his head and called with the covering stack.
Showdown
Roux:
Zaytsev:
It was a bad situation for Zaytsev, and it wouldn't get any better either. The dealer ran out an unfriendly board of . The king on the turn ended the hand right there, sealing Zaytsev's fate as the 14th-place finisher. That's good for €24,500 as a consolation prize.
Yann Brosolo - 13th Place
Under the gun, Yann Brosolo made it 70,000 to play, and he watched Stefan Mattsson stick in a reraise to 205,000 next to speak. The table quickly folded back around, and Brosolo took his pause to consider for just a moment. He announced an all in for about 900,000 total, and Mattsson made the call to put him at risk.
Showdown
Brosolo:
Mattsson:
Brosolo clapped his hands together at the sight of his fine spot, poised to double up. It was eerily similar to the hand just moments ago at this table just a few minutes ago, but the result would not be the same for ace-king this time. The flop was a disastrous , vaulting Mattsson into the lead and leaving Brosolo at risk and needing to improve to stay afloat. The turn did nothing to support that cause, though, and the that filled out the board was a blank as well.
With his dominant hand falling, Day 2 chip leader Yann Brosolo has been knocked off in 13th Place.
Secara dissected
We are imagining that the action went raise/all in/call as Jan Skampa was on the button and George Secara was in the small blind. Either way:
Secara:
Skampa:
Board: (the whole rail made a noise like a plumber deciding how much to charge you for fixing your toilet)
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Laurence Ryan raised from the button, and Kalle Niemi shipped his last in from the big blind. There followed some considerable dwelling and eyeing up of Niemi - and then a call.
Ryan:
Niemi:
Board:
An absolute rollercoaster, that board, but Ryan ended up on top and Niemi will not be making a second EPT final table appearance this time around.
While Kalle Niemi was busting out, over on the other table an absolute monster of a pot was forming.
Jan Skampa raised to 72,000 under the gun and Stefan Mattsson called from the button. All good. In the small blind, though, Anthony Roux reraised to 220,000. Skampa flatted. So did Mattsson. Interesting.
All three players checked the flop, and they moved to the turn. Roux checked again, but Skampa now bet a rather chunky 470,000. Curiously, Mattsson flat-called. Roux folded. Onwards.
The river was the and now Skampa bet out 900,000. Mattsson disappeared into the tank as approximately a million people appeared from nowhere to crane over the table.
Eventually he folded, and Skampa is now in contention for the lead on around 2.7 million.