There was a Canadian shaped hole next to Allan Baekke and we spoke to the EPT Snowfest winner who explained how Sorel Mizzi had been knocked out from the tournament.
Baekke, "Sorel had called a raise from Nicolas Chouity (EPT Monte Carlo Winner) and they'd seen an flop, Nicolas had bet 6,500 and Sorel called. The turn was an and Nicolas checked, Sorel bet 13,000 and Nicolas moved all-in for I think 43,000 total. Sorel called with but Nicolas had flopped a set of fives. Sorel only had like 8,000 left and got it in with against ."
Sterling reporting there from our embedded 'reporter' Allan Baekke.
Big stack Dmitry Gromov, who's been harrying the top of the chip standings all day long, just paid off a couple of chunky bets from Wolfgang Wurzer. In-position Wurzer fired 8,500 on a flop of , then checked behind on the turn. The river paired the and Gromov checked a third time. A bit of a think and a bet from Wurzer of 12,900. Gromov immediately called but mucked when he was shown for the turned set and rivered house. He did it with a grimace/smile combo, saying "One out. I had two pair.."
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Fabrizio Ascari points to who he thinks will win the tournament.
New member of the Team PokerStars Pro David Williams just was eliminated by the madcap Italian Fabrizio Ascari. Williams had 4-bet shoved with and Ascari called with leaving Williams drawing very thin after a flop of and dead by the turn. A on the river and it's off to the rail for the American.
There was a raise under the gun and we're guessing that the raiser had been doing this a lot as he received no fewer than four calls, including those from Lex Veldhuis in the hijack and Pieter de Korver in the big blind. The flop came down and it checked around to a player in late position who bet 3,200. Veldhuis went all in, the bettor called, and it was Veldhuis' flush draw against his opponent's set. No further diamonds came on the turn and river, and the Dutch Team PokerStars Pro headed for bar or beach.
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Andre Coimbra and Pedro Guedes (right). Both stacked, both in.
A bit of a hit to Pedro Guedes' stack (used to the giddy heights of 2nd-4th place in the standings) after he had a go at putting some pressure on a shorter stack - Antonio Buonanno. Having created a 27k pot by the flop, we caught the action as big blind Guedes reached to raise mid-position Buonanno, who'd bet 25k. The 65k he'd pushed forward lay spread out in front of him, and Buonanno silently dwelled on the decision while the table waited silently, patiently and with interest.
Finally Buonanno moved all in for 30,300 more. Whatever the others might have been expecting him to do, Guedes really gave his new decision some thought, and finally threw away his hand. Giving him a little wordless comment, Buonanno nonchalantly turned over the .
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Sam Trickett with small, apparently parasitical, Dmitry Stelmak on shoulder
Ayaz Manji opened for 4,700 and Young British Big Stack (there seem to be a lot of them about today) Sam Trickett called on the button.
They saw a flop - or Manji did at least. Trickett was busy talking to a waitress instead. Manji thought about it for a while and eventually checked. Trickett must have been paying attention out of the corner of his eye, as he very casually dropped in a 5,800 bet while attempting to pay for the drinks he'd ordered. Manji folded pocket sixes face up.
"Maybe you have better pair," we think is what he said. Trickett shrugged.
"I'm always making moves," Trickett was saying a few moments later. Then inexplicably, "Like Steven Spielberg."
The move that Trickett has made most recently is an upward motion in the chip counts - he's at around 200,000.
A whole heap of betting between David Klar and Brandon Cantu saw the former 4-betting for what looked like 16,800 more on top of an estimated 30,000 already in the pot. Klar had roughly 110,000 behind and Cantu made the call, covering.
The flop was , Klar bet 30,000 and Cantu moved all-in which found a snap-call from the German.
Klar:
Cantu:
Cantu was in trouble, needing to spike against his opponent's bullets. The turn thinned his outs to just six cards but the river was one of these. Klar could only shake his head as he was eliminated, Cantu up to 313,000 and looking to complete a triple crown having already won a bracelet and a WPT. In fact, you should check out the interview with the lovely Gloria Balding as he explains why he hopes to be playing more EPT's in the future.
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Paul "Pab" Foltyn - here's looking at you
As we've already mentioned, the British invasion is in full swing, and these chaps are not in the slightest bit afraid to get involved with one another.
Just now we caught just the very tail end of a board - and we had just enough time to see Paul "badpad2" Foltyn turning over . Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick had an unhappy expression on his face and was down to 100,000. Foltyn's stack was increasing to 160,000.
Over on the next table along, James "Flushy" Dempsey is long gone but fellow Brits JP Kelly and Toby Lewis are still doing battle. With two EPT titles going to the UK in Season 6 (Jake Cody in Deauville and Liv Boeree in San Remo), we could be looking at another great poker year for Britain.
Grzegorz Cichocki is involved in a good number of pots, aware that his stack dwarfs most of those on his table. He won 20k from his right hand side neighbour in one blind-on-blind confrontation (in which the neighbour rather unconventionally bet 6k on every street) and then raised the very next hand, now the small blind. The 5,200 represented a much higher percentage of the big blind Nicolo Calia's stack, but he made the call quickly. The flop came . Check to Calia, who moved in. The old chip leader gave it just a moment before giving up on this pot and waiting for the next hand.
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flop, Nicolas had bet 6,500 and Sorel called. The turn was an 
and Nicolas checked, Sorel bet 13,000 and Nicolas moved all-in for I think 43,000 total. Sorel called with 
but Nicolas had flopped a set of fives. Sorel only had like 8,000 left and got it in with 
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, then checked behind on the 
turn. The river paired the 
and Gromov checked a third time. A bit of a think and a bet from Wurzer of 12,900. Gromov immediately called but mucked when he was shown 
for the turned set and rivered house. He did it with a grimace/smile combo, saying "One out. I had two pair.."
and Ascari called with 
leaving Williams drawing very thin after a flop of 
and dead by the 
on the river and it's off to the rail for the American.
flush draw against his opponent's 
turn and 
river, and the Dutch Team PokerStars Pro headed for bar or beach.
flop, we caught the action as big blind Guedes reached to raise mid-position Buonanno, who'd bet 25k. The 65k he'd pushed forward lay spread out in front of him, and Buonanno silently dwelled on the decision while the table waited silently, patiently and with interest.
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, Klar bet 30,000 and Cantu moved all-in which found a snap-call from the German.
board - and we had just enough time to see Paul "badpad2" Foltyn turning over 
. Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick had an unhappy expression on his face and was down to 100,000. Foltyn's stack was increasing to 160,000.
