Balazs Botond raised his small blind and got a call from Daniel Negreanu in the big blind to see a flop. They both checked.
Botond checked the turn as well, before calling 110,000 from Negreanu. He checked a third time on the river and this time faced a 245,000 bet from Negreanu. Botond swiftly called, but threw his cards into the muck in disgust when Negreanu turned over for a rivered two pair. We strongly suspect that Botond had been ahead until the river.
Negreanu's stack headed upwards to 2.814 million; Botond's headed down to 849,000.
The feature table has been dying to find out what kind of range Michael Eiler has been shoving with all day long. They just found out but I suspect the unlucky Balazs Botond would rather he didn't know.
Botond opened from early position with a raise of 64,000 and Kirill Zapletin called in the Small Blind before Eiler shoved all-in from the Big Blind. Botond called and Zapletin got out of the way and the table were about to find out Eilers range for the first time and it was wide.
Botond:
Eiler:
Botond had 849,000 and a whole lot of bad luck when the flop ran out giving Eiler the lead with his pocket tens. Then turn and river were no help and it was unlucky 13 for the Hungarian who has had a terrible run of luck today and leaves EPT Vienna.
At the same time as Eiler was in the process of knocking out Balazs Botond, there was another all-in move on the secondary table. Andreas Wiese moved in for 337k over the top of Matthias Lotze's preflop button raise to 70k. While the TV table watched the exciting conclusion to Botond's tournament and then started to drift off for dinner, Lotze dwelled over the decision before finally releasing his hand and joining the parade.
Welcome back to the EPT Vienna and in the very first hand on our feature table [Removed:40] is eliminated by Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu.
Negreanu raised from early position making it 92,000 to play and Vitagliano shoved all-in to his direct left for 462,000. It folded around to Negreanu who had a decision to make. "Just for my brain as I am old pull in 92,00 each - you could have AK?" How right he was when he made the call.
Negreanu:
Vitigliano:
Board: giving Negreanu the lead. Turn and Vitagliano was drawing dead and the river irrelevant.
Bruno Launais made it 86,000 form the button, and Andreas Wiese, on 448,000 our official short stack, pushed from the small blind. Big blind Martin Hruby thoguht about it for a while but ultimately decided to fold; Launais got as far as asking for a count but declined to call.
Wiese picked up the much-needed pot and is back up to 600,000.
Martin Hruby raised to 82k preflop, and big blind Bruno Launais made the call. He check-called a second time (65k) on the flop before both players checked the turn and saw a free river. At this point Launais checked once again, and Hruby bet 116k. Launais was already stacking the call by the time Hruby's hand left his stack, and realising what was up, Hruby threw his cards facedown into the muck, conceding a pure bluff with no hope of a win at showdown. Annoyingly, Launais then accepted the pot without having to show down his own hand, so the mystery is doubled.
Michael Eiler raised and got himself called by both Daniel Negreanu in the small blind and Kirill Zapletin in the big. Onwards and flopwards.
Flop:
All three players checked. They got to see a turn card for free.
Turn:
Negreanu checked, but this time Zapletin bet 240,000. Over to original raiser Eiler - who now raised all in. Negreanu quickly got out of the way, but there commenced a long tank from Zapletin. He massaged his temples for some time. Perhaps he could do with borrowing Negreanu's masseuse for a while.
Eventually he folded, and told Eiler, "Nice bluff," ("Naiz blerf," it sounded like in his rather good Russian accent). The expression on his face was sourer than a lemon floating in a tub of yoghurt.
"It was no bluff," Eiler told him, after a pause. "You'll see on TV."
Zapletin, still looking most unhappy, told him that he'd folded pocket jacks.
flop. They both checked.
turn as well, before calling 110,000 from Negreanu. He checked a third time on the 
river and this time faced a 245,000 bet from Negreanu. Botond swiftly called, but threw his cards into the muck in disgust when Negreanu turned over 
for a rivered two pair. We strongly suspect that Botond had been ahead until the river.
giving Eiler the lead with his pocket tens. Then turn 
and river 
were no help and it was unlucky 13 for the Hungarian who has had a terrible run of luck today and leaves EPT Vienna.
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and Vitagliano was drawing dead and the river 
flop before both players checked the 
turn and saw a free 
river. At this point Launais checked once again, and Hruby bet 116k. Launais was already stacking the call by the time Hruby's hand left his stack, and realising what was up, Hruby threw his cards facedown into the muck, conceding a pure bluff with no hope of a win at showdown. Annoyingly, Launais then accepted the pot without having to show down his own hand, so the mystery is doubled.
