Table 8 is starting to look like a good table to keep your eye on as it is the home of JP Kelly, Johan van Til, Dario Minieri and John O'Shea, with the latter two players just clashing in a cutoff versus button situation.
The action folded to Minieri in the cutoff and he made it 500 to play. O'Shea, on the button, was having none of it and he made it 1,175 to go. Both blinds folded but when it was Minieri's time to act, the Italian Team PokerStars Pro re-raised to 2,525. O'Shea sat still for several moments before putting in the raise the ended the hand, a bet of 6,250. Minieri folded and O'Shea picked up the pot.
Mark Pukhov raised to 500 from middle position and Johan Van Til three-bet out of the small blind making it 1,700 to play with 24,000 behind. Pukhov had Van Til covered and four-bet to 4,700 and Van Til was forced to fold his hand.
In the next hand Pukhov again opened to 500 and this time Team Pokerstars Pro J P Kelly called in position. The flop was and Pukhov check-called a 1,000 J P Kelly bet. The turn was a tantalising barrel looking . Pukhov checked to J P Kelly and he fired his second warning shot of 2,100 into the field and after a very long think Pukhov gave up his hand.
The quote in the title came from the lips of Seppo Parkkinen as he and Jens Kyllonen explained how table mate Ivan Freitez busted from the tournament.
Apparently he raised with seven-five suited and got one caller. The flop came and the Venezuelan's c-bet was raised. Freitez had a backdoor draw and deemed it good enough to go with, Unfortunately for him though his opponent had flopped a set of threes and called the all-in push.
No back-to-back EPT titles for the colourful Freitez.
Annette Obrestad is now up amongst the chip leaders here on Day 1b of the EPT Tallinn Main Event.
PokerStars qualifier Sami Moilanen opened the betting with a raise to 500 from under the gun. The next four players folded but Eugen Wagner, Ignat Liviu, Obrestad and Andrey Subbotin came along for the ride.
The flop came down and each of the active players checked. The turn brought the into play and Obrestad bet 1,500, Subbotin and Moilanen folded but both Wagner and Liviu called, meaning it was three-handed to the river.
Obrestad checked, as did Wagner but Liviu bet 5,500. Obrestad quickly raised to 16,500, which saw Wagner fold but Liviu snap-called then angrily slammed his cards into the muck when Obrestad turned over for a winning full house.
Obrestad now has 61,000 and is most certainly a major threat now.
There are many players who believe you should never fold pocket kings preflop, especially when you have less than 100 big blinds but try telling that to Janne Pitko.
He found himself in raising war with Ke Gang that saw Gang raise from under the gun, Pitko come over the top from the button, Gang raise again and Pitko make it 6,025 to play. Gang thought about his options and raised to 22,500. Pitko removed his earphones and folded face up.
Gang folded but he was talking to the player to his direct left and he informed him that he would have shown his hand it was aces.
We reported earlier that the table housing J P Kelly had broken and we can now report his new home is table eight. Kelly has found himself in seat 7 and there are a few luminaries on his table. Fellow Pokerstars Team Pro Dario Minieri is sat in seat 3, John O'Shea is sat in seat 4 and Johan Van Til is sat in seat 10. Here is some action from that table and a quick chip update of those notables.
Van Til raised to 500 from middle position and Alexei Veselov (button) and John O'Shea (big blind) both made the call. The flop was and the action checked to Van Til who made a 1,200 c-bet. It was enough to move Veselov out of the way but O'Shea decided to stick around a little longer when he made the call. The turn was the and O'Shea checked once again to Van Til who bet 3,000. O'Shea then pulled a check-raise out of the bag when he made it 7,200 to play and after some though Van Til made the call. The final card floated down from upon high was the . O'Shea went through the hand in his head before making it 11,600 to play and Van Til laid down his hand.
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and Pukhov check-called a 1,000 J P Kelly bet. The turn was a tantalising barrel looking 
. Pukhov checked to J P Kelly and he fired his second warning shot of 2,100 into the field and after a very long think Pukhov gave up his hand.
and the Venezuelan's c-bet was raised. Freitez had a backdoor draw and deemed it good enough to go with, Unfortunately for him though his opponent had flopped a set of threes and called the all-in push.
and each of the active players checked. The turn brought the 
into play and Obrestad bet 1,500, Subbotin and Moilanen folded but both Wagner and Liviu called, meaning it was three-handed to the 
river.
for a winning full house.
and the action checked to Van Til who made a 1,200 c-bet. It was enough to move Veselov out of the way but O'Shea decided to stick around a little longer when he made the call. The turn was the