After a good level of steady, Kirill Zapletin has made just one critical decision which has dropped him to 9,000 and given Jan Bendik most of his stack. The two of them saw a raised flop of ; Zapletin checked, Bendik bet 38,000 and Zapletin slowly check-raised to 67,000. Back to Bendik, who took only a modest amount of time to re-raise all in. Zapletin took a long time to call the extra 150k or so (just under his total) but was in bad shape:
Zapletin:
Bendik:
The turn brought a breath-holder - the - but the on the river crippled Zapletin while Bendik rises to over 300,000.
Kirill Telezhkin limped in, as did Melanie Weisner, before Rasmus Nielsen made it 36,000 from the button. They both called and found themselves looking at an flop. Telezhkin shrugged and went all in, which got rid of Weisner pretty sharpish, but Nielsen made the call and it was the end of Telezhkin.
Telezhkin: for a pair of jacks
Nielsen: for a set of jacks
Turn and river: and respectively
Weisner said that she'd had pocket sevens, which could have got interesting if she'd made it past the flop. But either way, Telezhkin was gone, and Nielsen's stack was over 600,000 at the end of the hand. If he makes it all the way to Day 5, it'll be his third EPT final table.
Kiril Zahariev raised from the cutoff and Guillaume Darcourt shoved from the small blind.
"I call," said Zahariev, turning over .
"YESSSS!!!!!" said Darcourt and flipped .
Board:
"YES!" said Darcourt again, then fistpumped and made some noises that sounded like, "Nhhhh! Nnnnhhhhhhh!" Zahariev dejectedly told him nice hand, and Darcourt calmed down. "Sorry for this, but it was so long I was so short." He;s still well below average on around 170,000.
The flopr ead when we we arrived and Francisco Torres was all in with , looking good for a double up against Paul Knebel's . Torres made a full house on the turn, but the on the river made Knebel a bigger full house, and the Spaniard and his tiny toy train were out of the running. Everyone at the table shook his hand and told him how unlucky he'd been. And your post title comes courtesy of Mr. Kevin MacPhee. Thanks very much.
Riccardo Giacalone's tournament is over but at least he will have a couple of bad beats to tell his friends back home. He was the player who lost with aces to Charles Chattha's pocket tens and now he is sitting on the rail after his queens were cracked!
Manuel Bevand raised to 18,000 from early position and Nikolay Losev made the call next to act. The remaining players mucked their hands but Giacalone, seated in the big blind, moved all in. Bevand asked him for a count and it turned out he had 142,000 chips.
Bevand decided this was too much but Losev made the call and Giacalone was at risk.
Losev:
Giacalone:
The flop catapulted Losev into the lead and there he stayed as the turn and river were the and respectively, eliminating the Italian and adding even more chips to the stack of the Russian
A supercooled deck just sent Martial Blangenwitsch to the rail with plenty of vigorous French shouting, as his preflop four-bet all-in was immediately called by Andrea Ferrari. When this happened, Blangenwitsch said, "Aces?" turning over , and a heartbeat later, Ferrari said, "Of course!"
The held (despite Blangenwitsch calling, "Le Roi! Le ROI!") and he exits at the €9,000 payout bracket. Ferrari up to 300,000.
Ludovit Fischer has been eliminated, calling all in with after fellow short-stack Karl Heinz Klose had found an open spot to move in preflop for 78,000. Fischer's big slick was up against Klose's , which ended up showing it was as live as electrical cables, hitting a Ten and busting Fischer.
Matt Affleck's tournament is now over. Never a mountainous stack, Affleck lost two large pots in a row (one an all in preflop) to exit in 60th place (winning €9,000).
First, he doubled up Kirill Zapletin, who took so long to make his turn decision we'd pretty much written off 'move all in' as his likely choice. However, facing a board of on which he'd bet 28k only to be check-raised by Affleck to 80k, he finally moved all in. Affleck covered him, found it was around 70k more to call, and went for it with . Zapletin held which held on the river giving him a full double up. He double-punched the table in what was clearly relief.
Affleck's remaining chips went to button Dirk Richter, who opened with , enough to call big blind Affleck's shove. Affleck's failed to improve and he headed to the rail.
Rob Hollink, the sole remaining Dutchman and one of four former EPT winners still in the field, raised in the cutoff. Fernando Brito called from the small blind and then checked in the dark.
The flop came down and the action moved directly to Hollink. He bet 20,000 - but Brito now check-raised all in for 126,500. Hollink calmly ate a sandwich for a while, before turning his attention to the board. After a little while he folded, and Brito showed him for his trouble. Brito's stack increased to 170,000, Hollink's dipped to 455,000.
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; Zapletin checked, Bendik bet 38,000 and Zapletin slowly check-raised to 67,000. Back to Bendik, who took only a modest amount of time to re-raise all in. Zapletin took a long time to call the extra 150k or so (just under his total) but was in bad shape:
- but the 
on the river crippled Zapletin while Bendik rises to over 300,000.
flop. Telezhkin shrugged and went all in, which got rid of Weisner pretty sharpish, but Nielsen made the call and it was the end of Telezhkin.
for a pair of jacks
for a set of jacks
and 
respectively
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no good against Dennis Kipnis' 
. The board ran out [4d3jc7h7c] and Kipnis is up to 300,000.
when we we arrived and Francisco Torres was all in with 
, looking good for a double up against Paul Knebel's 
. Torres made a full house on the 
on the river made Knebel a bigger full house, and the Spaniard and his tiny toy train were out of the running. Everyone at the table shook his hand and told him how unlucky he'd been. And your post title comes courtesy of Mr. Kevin MacPhee. Thanks very much.
flop catapulted Losev into the lead and there he stayed as the turn and river were the 
respectively, eliminating the Italian and adding even more chips to the stack of the Russian
after fellow short-stack Karl Heinz Klose had found an open spot to move in preflop for 78,000. Fischer's big slick was up against Klose's 
which held on the 
, enough to call big blind Affleck's shove. Affleck's 
