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Time(x) for a comeback
There's been a theme to the recent hands at Table 1. Mike McDonald puts chips into the pot and doesn't get any back. Here are the last two:
Michael Fratty completed the small blind, and McDonald checks his option to see a flop heads up. It comes . Fratty taps the table, Timex stabs 125k at it, and Fratty promptly moves all in. McDonald pretends to think for a few seconds but gives it up.
A few hands later, McDonald opens to 90k under the gun, Jake Cody repopped to 199,000, and McDonald laid it down.
After a rough go of it since doubling up Alexia Portal (whose lost all of those extra chips since being moved to the feature table), Timex is down from a high of over 4 million to around 1.3 million.
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Jake Cody opened the pot from the small blind, raising to 102,000. Teodor Caraba made the call from the big, and it was off to the flop.
The dealer spread out . Cody continued out with a bet of 122,000, and Caraba didn't waste much time making the call. The landed on fourth street, and Cody wasn't going to stab again. He knocked the table, and he folded relatively quickly to a bet of 300,000.
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Curious
Both players checked the flop, and they proceeded to the turn. Bergeron bet out 93,000, and after a moment Portal raised to 390,000. Call.
Bergeron checked the river and the action moved to Portal. What happened next confused everyone, as Portal dwelled up for some minutes - and then mucked her hand.
Perhaps she mistakenly thought that Bergeron announced all in, or her hand was so bad she couldn't bear to show it - but either way Portal was swearing under her breath at the end of the hand, having invested over half her stack in it. She's down to 464,000.
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It's been five in a row raise-and-take-it hands on the outer table. Standard raise is exactly 2.2x, though Jake Cody always likes to add 1 or 2k to his bets and raises just to keep it colorful.
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Well, mostly very badly, except for Antony Lellouche.
It seems Lellouche was already chip leader in the high rollers' event when Jon Aguiar shoved preflop with . Lellouche called, as did another player who then proceeded to go all in on the ten-high flop with . Lellouche called that too and his pocket jacks held up.
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Martin Staszko - 11th Place
For the second consecutive hand, Martin Staszko open-shoved, this time for 460,000 total. His all-in made it through the first time, but not this time. Stephane Albertini peeked at his cards and quickly made the call to put his man at risk. Cards up please:
Staszko:
Albertini:
The flop really changed nothing as the dealer spread out . Fourth street brought a blank , and the river locked up the pot and the knockout for Albertini. With that, Martin Staszko becomes our 11th-place finisher, padding his bank account with €35,000 for cashing deep in his first-ever EPT.
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Teodor Caraba raised in the cutoff and Michael Fratty flatted on the button to see a flop. Peter Eastgate started to eat a sandwich.
Caraba bet out 130,000, and Fratty dwelled up for a long time - long enough for Eastgate to finish the first triangle of his sandwich and move on to the second. Then he raised to 400,000.
Back to Caraba, who made it 930,000. Fratty dwelled up again. Eastgate finished his sandwich and stretched. Fratty passed and the pot went to Caraba.
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Freddy Deeb - 12th Place
With a paltry 293,000 chips left in his stack, Freddy Deeb looked down at and shipped them in there. Stephane Albertini squeezed out , and he made the call with the big stack. Deeb was racing for double or nothing, and he seemed optimistic.
Unfortunately for the gregarious pro, the board would blank off: . Unable to improve his overcards, Deeb has been eliminated, once again just a few spots shy of making an EPT final table. He'll take a pay bump up to €35,000 for his efforts this week.
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Things were getting a little slow on the outer table. Michael Fratty was checking is twitter. Alexia Portal's eyes are starting to glaze over. Then all of a sudden, big time action.
Teodor Caraba raised, and only Mike McDonald took him up on it.
Flop: - Caraba c-bet for 160k, and Timex called.
Turn: - Buckle your seat belts. Caraba carefully counts out 380,000, all in red chips. Alexia Portal, sitting next to McDonald, stares directly at his face 8 inches away while he thinks.
He makes it 880,000 total. And Caraba calls! Crowd suddenly gets very interested. The hives we always see on McDonald's neck when he's got a lot of chips on the line come out in full force.
River: - Quick check from Caraba, slower check from Timex. And a good decision, too. Caraba shows for Broadway (aka the nuts.)
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. Fratty taps the table, Timex stabs 125k at it, and Fratty promptly moves all in. McDonald pretends to think for a few seconds but gives it up.
. Cody continued out with a bet of 122,000, and Caraba didn't waste much time making the call. The 
landed on fourth street, and Cody wasn't going to stab again. He knocked the table, and he folded relatively quickly to a bet of 300,000.
flop, and they proceeded to the 
turn. Bergeron bet out 93,000, and after a moment Portal raised to 390,000. Call.
. Lellouche called, as did another player who then proceeded to go all in on the ten-high flop with 
. Lellouche called that too and his pocket jacks held up.
. Fourth street brought a blank 
, and the river 
locked up the pot and the knockout for Albertini. With that, Martin Staszko becomes our 11th-place finisher, padding his bank account with €35,000 for cashing deep in his first-ever EPT.
flop. Peter Eastgate started to eat a sandwich.
and shipped them in there. Stephane Albertini squeezed out 
. Unable to improve his overcards, Deeb has been eliminated, once again just a few spots shy of making an EPT final table. He'll take a pay bump up to €35,000 for his efforts this week.
