Melanie Weisner opened for 66k under the gun, flat called swiftly by her neighbour Emilliano Bono. Button Marco Leonzio then put his headphones on in preparation for raising to 250k. Weisner passed instantly, but Bono had a think first, before showing Ace-something and passing too.
"I had a better hand than that," remarked Weisner.
Kevin MacPhee, big chip leader at the start of the day, is now the possessor of a merely average stack after losing a smallish pot to Nikolay Losev.
MacPhee made it 70,000 under the gun and it folded all the way around to Losev in the big blind who made the call. Losev checked the flop and MacPhee made an 82,000 continuation bet. Losev glanced up at the giant clock above them, where the final table payouts happened to be flashing past. He called.
Both players checked the turn, but come the river Losev bet out 120,000. MacPhee thought about it for a while but he looked rather uncomfortable, and sure enough he soon folded.
Roberto Romanello has revealed that his hat is giving him solid reads at the poker table and that everyone else should not attempt to bluff him off a hand!
From the cutoff Manuel Bevand made it 70,000 play, Nikolay Losev folded from on the button and Kevin MacPhee mucked from the small blind, but Romanello liked the look of his hand and reraised to 174,000.
After around a minute, Bevand stuck in another raise, this one to 375,000 but snap-folded as Romanello quickly announced he was all-in!
"You shouldn't try to bluff Romanello!" exclaimed Romanello himself
"Not in this hat anyway."
So there you have it folks, if you want to go deep in an EPT event you just have to wear a daft, furry ski hat. I'll go get mine on the next break
Ion Pavel has added a couple of hundred thousand chips to his stack after emerging from a three-way hand involving Melanie Weisner and Peter Skripka.
It was Skripka who opened the betting with a raise to 75,000 from the hijack seat of the six handed table. Pavel called from the small blind, as did Weisner in the big blind.
Flop: - All three players checked
Turn: - Pavel came out swinging with a 70,000 bet. Weisner wasn't prepared to pay that and folded but Skripka stuck around to see the river.
Kevin MacPhee, although down from his earlier multi-million chip high point, is still very much in contention with 1.5 million, and is concentrating on every decision, hard to read behind mirrored sunglasses.
He raised preflop to 70,000 and Jan Bendik on the button raised him to 185k. The rest of the table passed and it was back to MacPhee, who slowly riffled six chips, looking at Bendik (or, at least, in Bendik's direction - you just can't tell what he's looking at, could have had his eyes closed for all we know). Stare, riffle, stare, riffle, ask to pull in the 70k.
He counted out the chips for the call but finally decided against making it, saying, "Nice hand. I think you just wanted to win a pot. But I'm not sure."
Some curiousness as Ion Pavel made it 65,000 from the button and Emilliano Bono flat-called in the big blind. They checked down the board and Pavel turned over just the for a rivered pair. Bono flipped a completely unexpected and picked up the micro-pot.
Roberto Nulli opened for 66,000 on the button, but in the big blind Melanie Weisner announced all in. Nulli asked how much. "Right around seven," dealer Charlie Ciresi (who incidentally made a deep run at the Irish Open last year) told him. Nulli sat there for a bit before demanding an actual count from floorman Kevin. It was 724,000. "Right around seven," Charlie told him again cheerfully.
There followed a couple minutes more in the tank, and then Nulli folded up. "Ace-nine?" he asked Weisner.
Melanie Weisner has just been moved from Table 2 over to Table 1 and won a pot in her first hand their.
Acting under the gun, Weisner made it 66,000, Emilliano Bono called next to act and Ion Pavel called from the big blind, making it three handed to the flop.
Pavel checked, Weisner continuation bet 150,000, which was enough to fold out Bono but Pavel looked determined to see the turn. After staring at Miss Weisner for 30 seconds or so, Pavel flicked his cards into the muck.
Kipnis suffered from preflop timing breakdown just now as he ran smack into Emilliano Bono, with predictably loud results.
Kipnis opened for 60k and Bono raised to 206k. Bono had twice that behind, and Kipnis made his move - all in. The speed at which he was called told him everything: Bono showed and Kipnis tabled .
The flop: Bono shot out of his chair shouting what sounded like "GO MILO!" "GO! GO!"
As the turn and river fell he was barely paying attention, napkin on head, finally letting out a mighty whoop and walking away from the table applauding himself with his hands over his head.
Kipnis walked away with not a word, leaving the dealer to move his stacks to Bono who now has 1,800,000.