Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 500
2010 EPT Prague
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,730,550
Entries
563
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Chip Counts From The End of Level 17 (full)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
791,000
-39,000
|
-39,000 |
|
||
|
690,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
|
||
|
556,000
199,000
|
199,000 |
|
|
513,000
229,000
|
229,000 |
|
491,000
77,000
|
77,000 |
|
483,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
482,000
-158,000
|
-158,000 |
|
|
||
|
478,000
-36,000
|
-36,000 |
|
453,000
-39,000
|
-39,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
451,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
450,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
441,000
180,000
|
180,000 |
|
441,000
138,000
|
138,000 |
|
440,000
104,000
|
104,000 |
|
|
424,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
389,000
-42,000
|
-42,000 |
|
|
335,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
|
309,000
-216,000
|
-216,000 |
|
300,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
298,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
|
||
|
267,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
||
|
259,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
257,000
124,000
|
124,000 |
|
230,000
-34,000
|
-34,000 |
|
|
||
|
229,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
Stone Cold Nuts for Weisner
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
We arrived to find Melanie Weisner (big blind) betting out 16,500 on the turn, the board reading 
. Rasmus Nielsen (under the gun) called.
The river was the 
and this Weisner bet out 37,500. "Ace eight?" Nielsen enquired with a smile, but this elicited zero information from Weisner. Eventually he called, and Weisner did not turn over 
- instead, she turned over 
for the straight flush. As you do.
Nielsen - 400,000
Weisner - 265,000
Vidal Cuts Telezhkin Down
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
The players are dropping like flies at the moment, with a constant stream of players leaving their tables and going to collect their winnings.
Haykel Cherif Vidal raised from early position to 20,000 and then Kirill Telezhkin made a very strange play indeed. He put in a raise to 65,500, which left him with less than 5,000 chips behind! When the action folded back to Vidal he bet enough to put his opponent all in and he quite obviously called.
Vidal: 
Telezhkin: 
By the river the board read 
and Telezhkin sped away from the table and had to be caught by one of the floor staff so they could pay him his money, which stands at €9,000 at the moment
Hollink Faces Shove, Sandwich
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
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.
Two Hands Take Out Affleck
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
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.
Fischer's Klose Call Doesn't Work Out
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
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.
Ferrari In Front
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
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.
Giacalone Losevs With Another Big Pair
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
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
Torres' Train Derailed
Level 18
: 4,000/8,000, 500 ante
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.