Lex Veldhuis raised to 500 preflop and got calls in three spots to see a flop where he continued with a 1,500 bet. The first player called, the second folded but the final one made it 6,000 to go with around 18,000 behind. Veldhuis moved all-in for 22,800 total, the caller folded and the raiser snap-called turning over .
"I'm embarrassed," said Veldhuis as he gingerly turned over but the miracle suddenly was on when the turn gave him a huge number of outs. The river was the - the ultimate in blanks and the Dutchman has been eliminated.
As you can see, of the numerous familiar faces at the Table of Death, it's only really Luca Pagano who's having a nice time so far. One Mr. Hans Erlandsson, currently at 65,000, is also presumably rather enjoying himself while he relieves the better-known pros of their precious chips.
After a somewhat lacklustre turnout of 180 yesterday (last year's Day 1a drew 270 players), we have outdone ourselves today. The official Day 1b field came to 302 runners, and the total for the combined Day 1s is 482 - not massively far off last year's field of 546, all things considered.
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano has just been involved in a tussle with his fellow countryman Andrea Piva, which relieved the former of a few chips.
With the board reading Pagano made a bet of 3,300 and Piva quickly made the call. The river was the and now Pagano checked, Piva bet 6,000 which left him just 3,500 chips behind and caused Pagano so sit up sharply and suck air through his teeth.
After sitting motionless for around 30 seconds he spoke to Piva in their native tongue and Pagano must have picked something up from their mini conversation as he mucked soon after.
A preflop raising war between Giacomo Maisto (utg+1) and Rino Mathis (big blind) was in an advanced stage when we got there - the presumably five-bet from Mathis was 7,300, and Maisto had just gone all in for 19,850. Mathis cleared his throat when the amount of the shove was ascertained. He poured himself a glass of water and stared at the felt for a while. Eventually he called.
Mathis:
Maisto:
Board:
Mathis was reduced to just 1,700, which went in from the small blind next hand to a cutoff raise from Andrzej Siemieniak. "Why didn't I look at your stack?" lamented Siemieniak with a giggle; he called anyway and was still giggling as Mathis busted out.
A massive pot just went down over on Table 9 that resulted in Losif Beskrovny and Gaurav Law being all in on the flop.
Everyone folded to Beskrovny, who was seated in the hijack seat, and he made it 500 to play. The 2010 EPT Grand Final winner Nicolas Chouity called from the button and Law put in the couple of extra chips from the big blind.
Flop: - Law checked, Beskrovny bet 1,025, Chouity called and then Law check-raised to 6,100. Beskrovny wasted no time in moving all in for 33,400, forcing Chouity out of the pot but Law snap-called and was the player at risk.
Law: - For top set
Beskrovny: - For an open-ended straight draw with a flush draw
The turn was the and when the dealer put out the on the river the pot was awarded to Law who more than doubled up to 25,400, whilst Beskrovny slips to 24,000
Toni Ojala is up to around 60,000 after raising preflop and then calling the shove from an extremely short-stacked gentleman - around 5,000 in total. Ojala was dominated but managed to pull a flush out of thin air to bust the unfortunate gent.
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flop where he continued with a 1,500 bet. The first player called, the second folded but the final one made it 6,000 to go with around 18,000 behind. Veldhuis moved all-in for 22,800 total, the caller folded and the raiser snap-called turning over 
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but the miracle suddenly was on when the 
turn gave him a huge number of outs. The river was the 
- the ultimate in blanks and the Dutchman has been eliminated.
Pagano made a bet of 3,300 and Piva quickly made the call. The river was the 
and now Pagano checked, Piva bet 6,000 which left him just 3,500 chips behind and caused Pagano so sit up sharply and suck air through his teeth.
- For top set
- For an open-ended straight draw with a flush draw
and when the dealer put out the 
