Notaro Takes Some Loose Change From Pantaleo
Giuseppe Pantaleo opened up from the button to 110,000 and Francesco Notaro moved all-in and Pantaleo surrendered the hand.
Giuseppe Pantaleo opened up from the button to 110,000 and Francesco Notaro moved all-in and Pantaleo surrendered the hand.
Play on the televised table has been very cagey to say the least, with only one flop being seen in the last five hands.
In that hand Georgios Skotadis completed the small blind and Candido Gonçalves checked in the big blind. The flop came down , Skotadis check then folded to Gonçalves' 115,000 bet.
We have had something very rare at the minute, a good old fashioned showdown!
Konstantin Puchkov raised first in from the button and only Giuseppe Pantaleo in the big blind made the call. Both players checked the flop, then the turn and again on the river.
Puchkov turned over , which was enough to win the hand.
Sorry if the title of this entry confused you but Konstantin Puchkov has just won a decent sized pot from Kent Lundmark, see what I did there?
Lundmark raised to 130,000 from the cutoff, WSOP bracelet winner Puchkov three-bet to 300,000 and Lundmark called.
Flop: - Lundmark checked, Puchkov bets 500,000 and Lundmark folds
It seemed like an eternity but eventually we moved from nine players to a final eight after this hand.
Candido Gonçalves opened from the cut off to 115,000 and Jesus Cortes Lizano three-bet to 275,000. Gonçalves thought for a while before deciding to shove all-in and Lizano immediately called.
Lizano:
Gonçalves:
Gonçalves had a ray of sunshine on a flop of but then turn and river ended Gonçalves dreams of a final table appearance.
Twenty-four players returned to the Casino de Barcelona and all but eight of them were eliminated. It took just 30 minutes for the first player to head for the cashier's desk, that dubious honour went to Sweden's William Thorsson. Mr Thorsson's chip stack was crippled late last night and he would have had a tough task on his hands to have progressed much further than he did.
He was joined on the rail by Dominik Nitsche, a player who finished in 62nd place in this very tournament last year but his run was brought to an end when his was snapped off by Konstantin Puchkov's pocket sevens. The players were been gradually whittled down and when Luis Rufas was eliminated in tenth place, worth €50,000, remaining ten people joined up on an unofficial final table.
Each player knew that busting out in ninth place would not only prevent them from making an EPT final table, but would also cost them at least €20,000 in prize money. It looked as if Francesco Notaro was going to be the bubble boy when he moved all-in with and ran into Shander De Vries' but he actually had De Vries covered by around 300,000 chips. These went into the pot a few hands later with Notaro holding , which prevailed against Georgios Skotadis' .
Ninety minutes into the unofficial final table, we lost our last player for the day. Frenchman Candido Gonçalves opened in the cutoff to 115,000, Jesus Cortes Lizano three-bet to 285,000 and then Gonçalves moved all in! Lizano snap-called and his opponent must have known he was in trouble.
Gonçalves :
Lizano:
The board ran out and our final table of eight was set.
When the players return at noon tomorrow we will play until we crown a new champion. Until that moment comes, you will find the players in the following seats:
Seat 1: Jesus Cortes Lizano - 3,800,000
Seat 2: Kent Lundmark - 3,025,000
Seat 3: Konstantin Puchkov - 4,160,000
Seat 4: Shander De Vries - 3,120,000
Seat 5: Giuseppe Pantaleo - 5,655,000
Seat 6: Francesco Notaro - 745,000
Seat 7: Thor Stang - 1,290,000
Seat 8: Georgios Skotadis - 1,105,000
Join us from 1200 noon for all the action live from the Casino de Barcelona. Until then, take care!
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Giuseppe Pantaleo |
5,655,000
655,000
|
655,000 |
Konstantin Puchkov |
4,160,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
Jesus Cortes Lizano
|
3,800,000
1,510,000
|
1,510,000 |
Shander De Vries |
3,120,000
-380,000
|
-380,000 |
Kent Lundmark |
3,025,000
-335,000
|
-335,000 |
|
||
Thor Stang |
1,290,000
-300,000
|
-300,000 |
Georgios Skotadis
|
1,105,000
-346,000
|
-346,000 |
Francesco Notaro
|
745,000
-91,000
|
-91,000 |
Main Event
Day 4 Completed