Dominykas Karmazinas finished third at the Grand Final here in 2010 and he's setting himself up for another deep run at the expense of aggro German Guiseppe Pantaleo.
Mohsin Charania was the man who we thought was going to be our chip leader yesterday, until Team PokerStars Pro Max Martinez caught him at the death. Still, the former Sunday Million winner bagged up 413,500 chips to give him a 2nd place finish. His stack is now 460,000 and this is partly because he has just eliminated Rupert Elder. The pair clashed pre flop and Charania had the former EPT Champion dominated.
Charania
Elder
Board:
So Rupert Elder will not be our first ever double EPT Champion.
Elliot Smith just suffered a cruel, cruel beat against Ilan Boujenah and it may have put an end to any hopes of making the money for the Canadian.
The pair got the money in pre flop and Smith had the advantage.
Boujenah
Smith
The dealer was floating down card after card, and at the turn Boujenah started to pack away his ipad when a hit the river to hand him a last minute reprieve.
Board:
"Wow," said Boujenah.
Smith was not out, but down to his last 15,000 chips.
Chris Brammer and Roberto Menache are having fun and games. Here are a few interesting hands involving the pair.
Hand 1
The action folds around the Brammer in the small blind who makes a standard open and Menache three-bets to 13,000 in the big blind. Brammer makes the call and the pair head to the flop of . Brammer check-called a 12,000 Menache bet before they both checked the on the turn. The last card the pair saw was the and Brammer snap-check-called a 20,000 Menache bet.
For a long while nobody moved until Menache finally turned over for jack high and Brammer quietly scooped in the pot with ace high .
Hand 2
Brammer raised to 6,500 on the button and Menache called in the small blind. Once again the pair shared a flop and it was . Menache check-called a 10,500 Brammer c-bet before we saw the on the turn. This time Menache made things very interesting with a 60,000 check-raise, after Brammer had sent him a 27,700 double barrel.
Brammer just stared at Menache, with a quizzical look, and after a period of time in the tank decided to fold his hand. Menache showed .
"Were you bluffing?" Asked a confused Brammer.
"Dunno…maybe," replied Menache.
"Would you have called if I would have moved all-in?" Asked Brammer.
"Dunno…probably," replied Menache.
"Then how could you be bluffing then?" Asked Brammer.
Johhny Lodden has a horrible habit of busting just before the money or just before the final table at an EPT. The former has happened to him here, and yet again he was very unlucky.
He watched as Joel Bez and Jason Wheeler moved all-in from the hijack and cut-off. Lodden looked down at aces and joined the party.
Bez:
Wheeler:
Lodden:
Wheeler was only one talking before the board was dealt, saying such things as, "I'm a lock as I'm getting a massage. You never lose while getting a massage, right? Six in the window!"
He got what he asked for as the board ran for make Wheeler a set.
Earlier we brought you news of the exit of our World Champion,Team PokerStars Pro Pius Heinz. His vanquisher was Dimitar Danchev and he is now up to 240,000 after eliminating another opponent.
As usual in the flurry of early exits, the action happened pre flop.
Danchev
Opponent
Danchev's opponent took the lead on a flop of , but Danchev snatched it right back when the appeared on the turn. The river had no effect on the result of the hand and Danchev notched another elimination on his list.
Andrey Danilyuk was not a happy bunny after he busted to Tudor Grangure, ending his dream a repeat of last year's 4th place finish for €400,000.
Grangure opened to 6,500 and was called by Clayton Mozdzen before Danilyuk shoved for 54,000. Grangure called and was enough to scare off Mozdzen.
Grangure:
Danilyuk:
The board ran .
Danilyuk was very unhappy with Grangure's call, but after he left the table Mozdzen and Bryan Piccioli agreed the call was just fine. Grangure's got a big stack now.