Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero is out. We don't have the details as he was playing on the inaccessible feature table.
Mickey Petersen and Chris Moorman have a lot if history from online and from Day 1A where the former six-bet the latter of hand. He just raised him off another hand but this time it only took a three-bet from the small blind to do so. Moorman had raised from UTG+1.
Dmitry Gromov is down to 200,000 chips after his pocket nines failed to come from behind to beat an opponent's pocket kings.
Bulgarian Dobromir Nikov called Jonathan Duhamel's all in with the . Duhamel shoved the cutoff with the on the short stack. The board ran out and Duhamel was sent packing.
Marvin Rettenmaier raised to 3,400 to open the pot, and Anthony Picault three-bet shoved for 39,400 total. When it came back to Rettenmaier, he'd spend a few long minutes soaking in the tank. After some time, he quietly announced the call with plenty of chips to try for the knockout.
Picault turned up and asked, "Same hand?" but the look on Rettenmaier's face indicated otherwise. He looked like he was a bit frustrated as he fumbled to flip over his cards, possibly a bit upset that he'd made the wrong decision with his .
Board:
That's no good for the German, and having to pay out that double up drops his stack to about 164,000.
From under the gun, Guillaume Darcourt raised to 4,000. Sam El Sayed was in the next seat and three-bet to 11,500. Action folded back to Darcourt and he made the call to see the flop. Both players quickly checked and the turn brought the . Darcourt checked and El Sayed fired 13,000. Darcourt made the call. The river was the and both players checked.
Darcourt showed the to beat El Sayed's and win the pot.
From middle position, Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin raised to 3,500. Daniel Cates reraised from the cutoff seat to 10,000 and then action folded to Guillaume Darcourt in the big blind. He four-bet to 41,500 and Ramdin folded. Cates quickly moved all in for 89,500 and Darcourt called after a minute of thought.
The hands weren't turned over right away as the dealer held the action to wait for the camera crew to arrive. After a minute or so passed, the dealer was instructed to proceed with the hand as the camera crews were currently occupied at other tables. Darcourt then tabled the and Cates the .
Good thing the cameras didn't come rushing over for this big near-200,000-chip pot because the two players involved tabled the same hand and it would be rather uneventful to watch most of the time. That is... most of the time.
Sam El Sayed stated that the flop was going to surely be red as he folded two spades himself. That got Cates a little excited right before the dealer dealt the to give both players a chance to back into a flush.
The turn brought the and now it was just Darcourt's pot to win if the river could smack another spade on the felt. If what El Sayed said was true, the deck was without two spades already and that meant Darcourt could only hit one of the remaining seven spades.
The river was the darkest female in the deck with the and Darcourt won the hand in exciting fashion after the two players looked like they'd be chopping this one up when the hands were revealed. Darcourt made sure to go over and shake Cates' hand after the fact as he did deliver a crushing blow to the young player en route to 450,000 in chips.
We're into Season 8 on the EPTand we're yet to find a double champion. That search may well continue beyong this event as two more former champions have departed.
Team PokerStars Pro Sebastian Ruhtnenberg won this very title three years ago but he was last seen making a hurried exit.
Kevin Stani won EPT Tallinn a little over one year ago. He got the last of his chips in with pocket sevens but ran into Raul Mestre's pocket kings.
Juan Cornejo only had 2,600 chips left, and he took his stand under the gun. Massimilano Martinez called next door, and Evgeny Zaytsev joined the party as well. That brought the action around to Sami Kelopuro's small blind, and he appeared to be thinking sinister thoughts. After a fairly long pause (perhaps just to savor the massage he's receiving), Kelopuro snuck in a reraise to 8,600 total. Both Martinez and Zaytsev called rather quickly, and the three live players went forward to try for the knockout.
The flop brought , and Kelopuro continued out with another 10,800. Martinez and Zaytsev couldn't have mucked any quicker, and Kelopuro was awarded the side pot as the cards were turend up between he and the all-in player.
Showdown
Cornejo:
Kelopuro:
Cornejo was somehow in front with his pair, though the turn did give Kelopuro outs to the knockout. But the river was the safe , and our short stack has quadrupled up and then some. It's actually more than a quintuple up as that pot moves him "all the way" up to 13,800. Kelopuro still managed to net a tidy profit to move to about 92,000 or so.
. Duhamel shoved the cutoff with the 
on the short stack. The board ran out 
and Duhamel was sent packing.
and asked, "Same hand?" but the look on Rettenmaier's face indicated otherwise. He looked like he was a bit frustrated as he fumbled to flip over his cards, possibly a bit upset that he'd made the wrong decision with his 
.
flop. Both players quickly checked and the turn brought the 
. Darcourt checked and El Sayed fired 13,000. Darcourt made the call. The river was the 
and both players checked.
to beat El Sayed's 
and win the pot.
.
to give both players a chance to back into a flush.
and now it was just Darcourt's pot to win if the river could smack another spade on the felt. If what El Sayed said was true, the deck was without two spades already and that meant Darcourt could only hit one of the remaining seven spades.
, and Kelopuro continued out with another 10,800. Martinez and Zaytsev couldn't have mucked any quicker, and Kelopuro was awarded the side pot as the cards were turend up between he and the all-in player.
