Kevin MacPhee and Maksim Kolosov both had around 11,000 chips and tangled in a prelop all-in showdown.
Maksim Kolosov raised to 900 from early position and quickly called when MacPhee three-bet all-in from the button.
Kolosov:
MacPhee:
The board ran to hand the pot to the Russian. MacPhee assumed he was out and left the room but a count down revealed he had 175 chips remaining. We had to run down the corridor to get him back. A chip and a chair! It's been done before.
The gentleman in the cutoff seat opened the pot with a raise, and Dominik Nitsche got his last 8,475 chips into the middle from the small blind. The raiser called with , and Nitsche's was flipping for his tournament life. He didn't look too confident at all.
The board ran out favorably for the German, though, coming to secure his double.
On the turn of a board, we walked up the the table to see Dominik Nitsche (in position) with a purple T500 chip out in front of his betting circle, and Daniel Negreanu (out of position) had 2,200 out in front of him. It looks like a check-raise from Kid Poker, but we only caught up in time to see Nitsche reraise enough to put Negreanu all in. The call came quickly, Negreanu committing his last 7,725 chips with . Nitsche had been snapped off, tabling his second-best .
Negreanu found a safe on the river, and he's found another double up, as well. This one gets him back over half the starting stack once again.
Action folded to Allen Bari in the hijack seat ad he opened with a min-raise to 600. Team PokerStars Pro Ivan Demidov was in the next seat and paused before reaching towards his stack and three-betting to 1,800. Everyone folded back to Bari and he quickly reraised to 4,600. Demidov smiled and gave it up, giving Bari the pot.
Oleksandr Gnatenko just won back-to-back hands to jump to 80,000 chips.
First up, he eliminated Mohamed Karim Hannaoui in an aces versus kings set-up.
The very next hand he was heads-up with ElkY and they reached the turn where the board read . Gnatenko led for 600 from the big blind and ElkY called from the button. The river came and Gnatenko led for 2,700 only for the Frenchman to raise to 6,600. Gnatenko was having none of it though and raised again, to 15,000. ElkY tank called but mucked upon seeing Gnatenko's for a full-house. He dropped to 24,000 chips.
Daniel Negreanu has been a bit grumpy today, and the foul mood began pretty much as soon as he arrived to play this afternoon. Most of his sourness comes regarding a few small rule changes to the EPT this year, and as is often the case, his views makes a lot of sense. Foremost in the changes is the fact that a player's hand is ruled dead if he's not in his chair when the first card is dealt. That differs from the TDA rule which allows for a player to play his hand as long as he's there when the button receives his last card.
Also of note are a few subtle differences regarding the sharing of information and the showing of uncalled hands. After listening to them engage in a long conversation, we see that Negreanu and Jason Mercier don't seem to understand that rule change fully (and certainly not the logic behind it), but we haven't heard the official explanation from the staff. Suffice it to say that it represents another difference from the TDA rules, and another annoyance to the more experienced players in the field. And the way Negreanu and Mercier describe it, the change almost protects collusion rather than weeding it out.
That first rule (about killing hands) was demonstrated rather pointedly as Negreanu and Mercier were in the middle of conversing. At adjacent tables, Mercier was standing up, looking over his shoulder to converse with his fellow Team Pro. While they were chatting back and forth and lamenting the new rules, Mercier was quietly dealt a hand, after which the dealer quickly pulled his cards into the muck. Just a moment after his hand disappeared, Mercier spun his head back around to see the rest of the table playing on without him.
"You could have told me you were dealing, bro," Mercier gave the dealer a 'what-the-?' look.
"Wait, you just got a dead hand?" Negreanu got all wide-eyed again. "That's absurd."
Mercier could just throw his palms up to the sky with a shrug, sitting back down to avoid a repeat the next time around.
Dario Minieri raised to 700 from middle position only to have the cutoff seat three-bet him to 1,625. In the small blind, Sami Kelopuro cold four-bet to 3,675 and play folded back to Minieri. He, too, gave it up and then the cutoff seat followed him into the muck, giving this one to Kelopuro.
to hand the pot to the Russian. MacPhee assumed he was out and left the room but a count down revealed he had 175 chips remaining. We had to run down the corridor to get him back. A chip and a chair! It's been done before.
, and Nitsche's 
was flipping for his tournament life. He didn't look too confident at all.
to secure his double.
board, we walked up the the table to see Dominik Nitsche (in position) with a purple T500 chip out in front of his betting circle, and Daniel Negreanu (out of position) had 2,200 out in front of him. It looks like a check-raise from Kid Poker, but we only caught up in time to see Nitsche reraise enough to put Negreanu all in. The call came quickly, Negreanu committing his last 7,725 chips with 
. Nitsche had been snapped off, tabling his second-best 
.
on the river, and he's found another double up, as well. This one gets him back over half the starting stack once again.
for a full-house. He dropped to 24,000 chips.
