Here is a brief update on the latest eliminations at EPT Vienna.
Elimination 1 - Markus Herbel
Sergii Baranov opened from the cut-off and Herbel shoved before Baranov called. Baranov had and Herbel had him dominated with . The flop changed things however as Baranov hit his ten turn and river were no help to Herbel turn river .
Baranov ~352,000
Elimination 2 - Peter Kamaras
Kamaras opened to 17,000 from early position and Ramin Hajiyev called on the button. Team Pokerstars Pro Martin Hruby also called from the Small Blind. The flop was and everyone checked. The turn was and Hruby led out for 32,500. Action over to Kamaras who three-bet to 81,500 and Hajiyev shoved before Hruby folded. Kamaras made the call. Kamaras had for a turned set and Hajiyev had for the straight.
"Pair the board!" Shouted Kamaras. It didn't pair the board and Kamaras left the bulding after a friendly hand shake and good luck gesture to the rest of the plkayers on his table.
Elimination 3 - Cengiz Can Ulusu
We are not sure how the money went in but Antonio Buonanno won the hand when his pocket Kings beat the of Ulusu.
It looked as though Tonio Röder had made the initial raise and Jack Ellwood had reraised before calling all in to a push from Röder; however it went down, Ellwood would soon be hitting the rail.
Röder:
Ellwood:
Board:
Ellwood headed for the door. Röder meanwhile is in great shape - he's up to 900,000.
A steep drop into the danger zone for Luca Cainelli, who found himself almost all in on the turn in bad shape indeed, with vs. the of Fabrizio Gonzalez. There was a third trey on board: and with no Nine on the river Gonzalez doubled to 400,000.
You would be forgiven for thinking that the reason his last 30,500 went all in the next hand was desperation/tilt, but in fact he had a miraculous pair of Queens! Both blinds ended up calling his shove and checking down the board, at which point the big blind hurled his hand into the muck and the small blind (Gonzalez again) showed a losing . Cainelli survives, for now.
Incidentally, the muck-hurl was deemed against the rules by the floor as both players have to show down at the end vs. an all-in. Gonzales got rather hot under the collar and shouted at Thomas Kremser about how this wasn't allowed, and it was ruled that he was correct. His irritation seems to have overcome the double up joy he must have experienced last hand.
Luca Cainelli got his last in from the big blind to an under-the-gun raise from Victorino Torres; a few moments later he had doubled up to 200,000, while Torres was left with 315,000.
Victorino Torres showed caution on the river when Giacomo Maisto checked to him on a board. The heart on the river and the no-bet from Maisto (who only had about 100k left having built a pot of nearly twice that already) might have been suspicious - he checked behind and was glad he did when Maisto showed to take the pot and rise to over 300k.
Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu called for the floor when there was confusion in a hand involving Sergii Baranov and Pokerstars Online Qualifier Konstantinos Nanos. Baranov had declared an all-in but Nanos thought it was just a raise. The floorman tried to settle the dispute but we couldn't understand what they were saying as he was speaking in Nanos own language. The decision was irrelevant anyway as Nanos decided to call Baranov's all-in.
Baranov:
Nanos:
What as all the fuss about? The flop brought a glimmer of hope for Baranov but the turn and river ended Baranov's hopes of EPT glory.
Two hands in a row saw people shove their stacks at Morten Erlandsen, but in very different circumstances. The first attacker was Surinder Sunar, who moved in for 94k into a pot of 100k on the turn of a board. A long think and some counting later and Erlandsen declined to call.
The second, however, was super-short-stacked Matthias Lechner whose 53k total wasn't enough to get rid of Erlandsen after he'd raised preflop to 18,500. He called with and spiked the board vs. Lechner's to send him home in 44th place.
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and Herbel had him dominated with 
. The flop changed things however as Baranov hit his ten 
turn and river were no help to Herbel turn 
river 
.
and everyone checked. The turn was 
and Hruby led out for 32,500. Action over to Kamaras who three-bet to 81,500 and Hajiyev shoved before Hruby folded. Kamaras made the call. Kamaras had 
for a turned set and Hajiyev had 
for the straight.
of Ulusu.
of Fabrizio Gonzalez. There was a third trey on board: 
and with no Nine on the river Gonzalez doubled to 400,000.
board, at which point the big blind hurled his hand into the muck and the small blind (Gonzalez again) showed a losing 
.
to take the pot and rise to over 300k.
