Zachary Korik Eliminated in 13th Place (€28,000)
Just a hand or two later, the now short-stacked Zachary Korik met his end.
Korik:
Jorge Lores:
Board:
We are now down to a dozen in the Main Event.
Just a hand or two later, the now short-stacked Zachary Korik met his end.
Korik:
Jorge Lores:
Board:
We are now down to a dozen in the Main Event.
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Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Candido Gonçalves
|
2,500,000
950,000
|
950,000 |
Luis Rufas |
2,240,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
Ognjen Sekularac |
2,000,000
697,000
|
697,000 |
Shander De Vries |
1,520,000
-291,000
|
-291,000 |
Francesco Notaro
|
1,310,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Thor Stang |
855,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
Jesus Cortes Lizano
|
780,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
Luis Rufas and Jorge Lores have butted heads in the Small Blind v Big Blind battle and Lores is the one with the sore head.
Luis Rafas:
Lores:
Board:
Jorge Lores eliminated in a very respectable 12th place
Now that we're down to 11, play seems to have slowed down a bit - with the average stack at 50 big blinds there's a lot of play in this structure yet, and there's a whole world of difference between the €36,000 on offer for 11th place and the €825,000 carrot dangling over first place.
We did manage to catch one interesting hand at the outer table, though. Candido Goncalves opened for 106,000 from the button but in the small blind Shander de Vries made it 300,000 to go. After a bit of a tank, Goncalves called.
They saw a flop and de Vries bet out 250,000. Goncalves, who seems to be a bit of an habitual tanker, spent a tantalisingly long amount of time thinking about it, but eventually folded.
De Vries is now over 2 million; Goncalves is still just a little ahead of him though on 2.2 million.
At the start of this hand, Shander De Vries asked the big blind, Jesus Cortes Lizano how many chips he had, which I thought meant he was preparing for the relatively short-stacked Lizano to move all-in on him if he raised.
That is exactly what happened as he opened with an 80,000 bet from the button, Lizano moved all-in for what turned out to be 863,000 and De Vries looked perplexed by what had happened.
After counting his own stack no fewer than three times, he let go of his hand. Strange.
Luis Rufas opens from early position to 100,000 and Georgios Skotadis three-bets in late position making it 225,000 to play. The action folds to Kent Lundmark in the Small Blind and he pushes all-in. Rufas gets out of the way and the decision is on Skotadis and it is his biggest decision of the day.
Skotadis turns his cap around and takes of his sunglasses tanks for a long while and folds pocket sevens.
Frenchman Candido Gonçalves just added close to 250,000 to his already impressive stack after a clash with Serbia's Ognjen Sekularac.
Sekularac made an unorthodox raise to 99,000 under the gun, unorthodox in that the rest of the table have been making it between 80,000 and 88,000. Anyway, Gonçalves was next to act and made the call, leaving them heads-up to the flop.
Flop: - This looked to have hit Sekularac as he made a continuation bet of 116,000 and after his trademark overly long pause, Gonçalves announced he was all-in! Sekularec did not fancy playing for stacks and mucked his hand.
Gonçalves, with a big smile on his face, turned over . This table loves to show their hands
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Francisco Notaro raised to 200,000 - that's five big blinds - in the cutoff, only to face a reraise to 519,000 from Ognjen Sekularac in the small blind. Notaro flat-called.
Flop:
Sekularac announced all in, and Notaro announced call. Simple as that. It took a while to assess their relative stacks, but eventually it was found that Notaro was the player at risk, Sekularac covering him by a mere 5,000.
Sekularac:
Notaro:
Turn:
River:
It was a huge double up for Notaro - to around 2.7 million. Sekularac meanwhile was left with just 5,000. "I'm not done yet," he told the table.
But 4,000 of his 5,000 went in as the ante next hand. He tossed in his remaining 1,000 blind and out of turn from the button. Notaro raised to 200,000 and everyone else got out of the way, and once again they were on their backs.
Sekularac:
Notaro:
Board:
Thus on the last hand of the level, we were down to 10.