Online qualifier Johannes Meyer has been getting involved with Michael Tureniec - and seems to have so far had the upper hand.
We witnessed Tureniec opening for 1,350 only to be met with a reraise to 4,000 from Meyer. The gent in the big blind unexpectedly called, and so did Tureniec. That time Tureniec gave it up on the king-high flop while Meyer and the big blind got their chips in (they both held and chopped it up.
Just a few moments later and this time it was Meyer who opened for 1,500 in early position and Tureniec who reraised to 3,600. Meyer thought about it for some time before going all in - and his bold move was rewarded with a fold from Tureniec.
One half of the De Meulder brothers, Matthias, has been quietly going about his business today and has turned his starting stack of 30,000 into 80,800 at the last count.
De Meulder, a Team PokerStars Pro representing Belgium, made his first EPT cash at San Remo back in April, where his 40th place finish was worth €22,000. Also on his table is fellow Team PokerStars pro, Arnaud Mattern, who has been at the bottom of the chip counts for most of the day but is slowly getting back towards his starting stack. Mattern finds himself with 24,100 chips.
Team Pokerstars Pro Ruben Visser opened from under the gun with a raise of 1,400 and the button and both players in the blinds called. The flop was and everyone checked the action around to the player on the button who bet 2,000. The blinds folded before Visser made the call. The turn was and they both checked. The river was and Visser toppled 4,700 chips across the line and his opponent reluctantly folded.
Canadian Yann Dion is building a nice little stack of chips over at table 8. The player in the cut off raised to 1,500 and the button called. The action was then on the big stack Yann Dion and he squeezed to 5,025 and they both folded.
Dion whose cashes this year include a cash in the WSOP $1,500 Shootout event now has a stack of ~133,000
Recent EPT Vienna finalist Luca Cainelli has just picked up a roughly 60k pot. We didn't catch the bulk of the action, but we arrived in time to see him turning over pocket tens at the end of an board while his opponent mucked.
Fernando Brito's spot at the top of the EPT leaderboard isn't in any immediate danger as he's just picked up a tasty pot with pocket queens on the river of a jack-high board. He's at an above-average 47,000 after that.
We just caught the turn action in a three-way hand - the board read and said action went check, check to Henrique Pinho in the cutoff, who bet. Alain Roy folded (by the by leaving himself with just 11,800) but the gentleman in the hijack made the call, sending them heads up to the river.
The river was the and Mr. Hijack checked again. Pinho bet 3,600 and after a long pause Mr. Hijack called, but made a face when Pinho turned over for trips, and mucked.
The Portuguese Team PokerStars Pro is up to 55,000.
Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser is back up to 34,100 chips after winning a pot without having to showdown against Paul Knebel of Germany.
The action folded around to Visser in the hijack seat, who made a raise to 1,400. After the cutoff, button and small blind folded it looked like he was going to scoop the blinds but Knebel thwarted this and made the call
Flop:
Neither player seemed that interested in this flop and simply checked back to each other.
Turn:
A bet of 1,800 from Knebel was met with a very quick call from the Dutch pro.
River:
Now Knebel checks, Visser senses weakness and pounces, betting 5,125 chips and after checking that his hand had not magically changed into the nuts, Knebel mucked his hand.
It has not been a very awe inspiring tournament for Team Pokerstars Pro Martin Horecki. I suppose the writing was on the wall when he ran his pocket Kings into Aces earlier on in the tournament. His exit hand was plain old boring really. He found himself with fewer chips than you would find on Kate Moss's dinner plate and plonked them in the middle with . He received on caller holding and that was all she wrote.
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and chopped it up.
and everyone checked the action around to the player on the button who bet 2,000. The blinds folded before Visser made the call. The turn was 
and they both checked. The river was 
and Visser toppled 4,700 chips across the line and his opponent reluctantly folded.
and said action went check, check to Henrique Pinho in the cutoff, who bet. Alain Roy folded (by the by leaving himself with just 11,800) but the gentleman in the hijack made the call, sending them heads up to the river.
and Mr. Hijack checked again. Pinho bet 3,600 and after a long pause Mr. Hijack called, but made a face when Pinho turned over 
. He received on caller holding 
and that was all she wrote.