Tell It To My Heart, My Achy Breaky Heart
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Vladimir Geshkenbein opened to 32,000 and Hans Erlandsson who is working a Lazarus -like recovery moved all-in for 274,000 and then Manilo Iemina flat-called behind.
Geshkenbein folded but was visibly shocked when Iemina turned over , racing against Erlandsson's . The board came and Erlandsson doubled up again, he's back up to 550,000. Iemina has dropped back to 1.1 million
Sole remaining Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko has taken a bit of a hit and is now firmly in the danger zone on under 300,000.
He was in the big blind position and had made it to the turn of a board when we arrived. He bet out 40,000, and in the hijack Koen De Visscher made the call.
They saw a river too, but this time Kravchenko checked. De Visscher fired out 84,000 and it was enough - the Russian folded, and De Visscher took the pot.
We didn't think it was possible, but Vladimir Geshkenbein has actually upped the aggression, either raising or reraising three hands in a row.
The first hand didn't actually go his way - he opened to 35,000 under the gun and faced a reraise to 78,000 from Manile Iemino in the cutoff. He called, but check-folded to a 90,000 bet from Iemina on the flop.
Next hand, Karen Sarkisyan opened to 35,000 in the hijack, but Geshkenbein shoved from the small blind to cover him. Sarkisyan sadly contemplated his remaining 280,000 for a while before folding.
The hand after that, Kevin Vandersmissen min-raised from the button. Unintimidated by the huge mountain of chips in front of the chip leader, Geshkenbein reraised to 88,000, and Vandersmissen duly passed.
Although they have not redrawn their seats, Table 1 has been broken in order to balance the other two tables. The prize money has now also increased with everyone now guaranteed no less than €11,495.
You can now find you heroes sat like so:
Table 2
Seat 1: Philip Meulyzer
Seat 2: Karen Sarkisyan
Seat 3: Martins Adeniya
Seat 4: Pierre Neuville
Seat 5: Kevin Vandersmissen
Seat 6: Vladimir Geshkenbein
Seat 7: Hans Erlandsson
Seat 8: Manilo Iemina
Table 3
Seat 1: Alex Kravchenko
Seat 2: Andreas Wiese
Seat 3: Morten Mortensen
Seat 4: Cristian Tardea
Seat 5: Koen De Visscher
Seat 6: Cristian Dragomir
Seat 7: Giacomo Maisto
Seat 8: Denis Murphy
Philip Meulyzer opened to 35,000 on the button and Martins Adeniya moved all-in for 217,000 from the big blind. Call.
Meulyzer:
Adeniya:
The board came and Adeniya doubled up to about 500,000. Meulyzer dropped to around 600,000
Christian Fabri's tournament is over and we are now down to the final two tables of the PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest.
All the money went in preflop with Fabri holding which was up against the dominating of Denis Murphy and in need of serious help to avoid being eliminated.
Board: and just like that it was all over.
We are down to 17 players after Bastian Fischer became Kevin Vandersmissen's latest victim.
Vandersmissen, who has been on fire since play began (not literally obviously but you know what I mean) raised to 32,000 and the snap-called when Fischer moved all in for 350,000.
Vandersmissen:
Fischer:
The flop kept Vandersmissen in front but the put Fischer in the lead and a huge favourite to double up. However, Vandersmissen has obviously made a sacrifice to the poker gods this morning and they rewarded him with the on the river.
Denis Murphy pushed all-in for 260,000 over the top of Giancomo Maisto's 80,000 bet on a board. Snap-call from the former chip leader.
Murphy:
Maisto:
The put the Irishman into the chip lead and he avoided the remaining nines and fives on the river, doubling up to about 550,000. Maisto has dropped to about 600,000 meaning he's lost nearly 1 million chips so far today.
Hans Erlandsson was all-in for his last 35,000 and received an automatic call from Pierre Neuville in the big blind.
Erlandsson:
Neuville:
Flop:
Oooh, exciting.
Turn:
Neuville gains three outs, but loses one.
River:
A damp squib and Erlandsson doubled, the next hand he moved all-in again and everyone folded. He's back over the 100,000 mark