We joined the play with a board showing both flop and turn - . Paolo Rigano checked from the big blind and Georgios Manousos also checked in the cut off. The river was the and there was 70,000 in the pot. Rigano bet 41,500 and Manousos made the call. Rigano peeled over for a flopped full house.
Germano Martucci has forgiven the poker gods for that little incident with the set and the runner-runner straight - he's just cracked Sergey Altbregin's aces with , the board running out . Altbregin is rather less happy about this - he is out.
Battle of the microstacks now as Carter Phillips raised under the gun for most of his stack and Jonas Linde-Fink called all in from the small blind for not very much at all.
Phillips:
Linde-Fink:
Board:
Linde-Fink doubled to just about 70,000; Phillips was left with 95,000 or so.
Nicola Boldini is up to 750,000 after managing to get his stack in with against Germano Martucci's on a flop of , Boldini was down and out but the turn combined with the made Boldini an unlikely wheel. Martucci is left with 300,000.
He was down to approx. 34,000 when he tripled up holding versus and after spiking a King. He then put the lot in the middle with and was called by his opponent holding and his opponent spiked a three to end his mini-rejuvenation before it had even started - on the board.
Ted Forrest called a raise of 16,000 from Kevin Vandersmissen to see a flop of . The five-time bracelet winner check-called a bet of 15,500 before suddenly open shoving 195,000 on the turn. Vandersmissen snap-called with and Forrest showed an inferior which stayed behind on the river.
There is certainly not a dull moment when Gianluca Benvenuto is in the action. He just made a standard raise from under the gun when Rupert Elder three-bet from the button with a bet of 46,000. The blinds mucked their cards and Benvenuto four-bet to 120,000. Elder, who recently cashed in EPT Berlin as well now in EPT San Remo five-bet jammed. Benvenuto asked for a count and it was 344,000 and he folded his hand.
Then in the next hand he was responsible for doubling up former EPT champion Carter Phillips. Phillips made a raise with and Benvenuto decided to move Phillips all-in when it folded round to him in the big blind. Phillips was expecting it and he made the call. Benvenuto was holding , the board remained free of both digits and Phillips moved up to 132,000