Marco Poleaxed
EPT Prague finalist Marco Leonzio is the latest to fall, he had bet around 40,000 on a but folded to a Shander de Vries shove. The Italian was left with around 10 big blinds and departed soon after.
EPT Prague finalist Marco Leonzio is the latest to fall, he had bet around 40,000 on a but folded to a Shander de Vries shove. The Italian was left with around 10 big blinds and departed soon after.
There was limp before Patrice Poujade shoved for not very much. In the small blind Alin Ion Roman called, and in the big blind Praz Bansi reshoved. Roman called that too, and they went to a three-way showdown.
Bansi:
Poujade:
Roman:
Board:
Poujade made a straight to take the main pot - although he was still very short on 70,000 after the hand. Roman got the side pot and was at 300,000 at the end of it. Bansi, however, was reduced to just 35,000.
The table broke and Bansi was moved to ElkY's table, where after a few hands he got his shrapnel in with . ElkY made the call with and following a board, Bansi was out of the running. By the by, ElkY is no longer a big stack - a couple of hands before he busted Bansi, he doubled up Riccardo Giacalone who flopped a set of tens against ElkY's pocket kings. ElkY is at roughly 280,000 now, Giacalone at 450,000.
Still, two-time WSOP bracelet winner Bansi now gets to enjoy a novel experience - his first ever trip to an EPT payout desk. GG Mr. Bansi.
We caught the action late and the board had already been laid. There was a massive amount of grey 5,000 chips in the middle of the table when Joseph Ebanks announced that he was all-in.
Board:
His opponent Fernando Valenciano went deep into the tank before eventually folding face up. The table's short stack Mikael Oestreicher announced to the table that he folded quads - maybe this is not going to be his tournament?
Ebanks ~ 562,000
Valenciano ~ 400,000.
Kenny Hallaert opened from the cutoff and faced a reraise to 46,000 from Thomas Bichon on the button. The blinds folded and Hallaert re-popped to 103,500. Bichon shoved, Hallaert eventually called, and they were on their backs.
Bichon:
Hallaert:
Board:
The Team PokerStars Pro is out of the running. Popular Belgian Hallaert, however, is in serious contention now with around 900,000.
At one point during this tournament Alex Wice was our chip leader. The Canadian Online Pokerstars.net qualifier started the day with 287,500 in chips. He has has a good first level and now sits on a stack of 408,000 after winning pots like these.
We join the action on a flop of and Cornel Andrew Cimpan came out firing with a bet of 22,00 only for Wice to three-bet to 60,000. Cimpan thought, and thought, and thought, and thought before folding just before Wice fell to sleep.
Then Wice raised again and he received two callers in the shape of Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski and again Cornel Andrew Cimpan. The flop was and the quick fire Wice bet so quick we could not catch the amount; Cimpan was the only caller. Wice again fired the turn so quickly we almost missed it and Cimpan folded.
That's the end of that chapter, players are on a 15 minute break.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fabian Holling
|
1,111,000
294,000
|
294,000 |
Raphael Kroll |
1,005,000
176,000
|
176,000 |
Kenny Hallaert |
932,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
Ahmed Abd El Fatah |
782,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
Kevin Lambert
|
767,000
212,000
|
212,000 |
Emile Petit |
755,000
436,000
|
436,000 |
Anthony Hnatow |
724,000
114,000
|
114,000 |
Fried Meulders |
707,000
187,000
|
187,000 |
Bruno Launais |
675,000
169,500
|
169,500 |
Martin Jacobson |
630,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
William Johnson |
629,000
259,000
|
259,000 |
Zimnan Ziyard |
606,000
-56,000
|
-56,000 |
|
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Ruslan Prydryk
|
571,000
183,000
|
183,000 |
Franck Pepe
|
565,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
Thomas Finneran
|
563,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
Kevin Keosomphet
|
563,000
164,500
|
164,500 |
Philip Jacobsen
|
562,000
-50,500
|
-50,500 |
Joe Ebanks |
556,000
-42,500
|
-42,500 |
Sebastien Bidinger
|
543,000
278,500
|
278,500 |
David Sonelin |
514,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Mathew Frankland |
512,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Alexander Yasnogorodskiy
|
474,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski
|
455,000
168,500
|
168,500 |
Riccardo Giacalone |
447,000
187,000
|
187,000 |
Rory Rees-Brennan |
446,000
-151,500
|
-151,500 |
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Fried Meulders raised to 23,000 on the button and it looked as though William Johnson had called in the small blind before Eric Sfez shoved for around 120,000 from the big blind. Meulders called, Johnson didn't, and it was a swift and clinical end for Sfez.
Sfez:
Meulders:
Board:
Fried's got chips now - around 850,000 of them.
Some random eliminations.
Olivier Hegy is no more and neither is Maxence Dupont