While Team PokerStars Pro Max Martinez is cruising with the chip leader and sending players to the rail early on Day 3, fellow Team Pro Marcel Luske has seen better days. He was just eliminated after getting his aces cracked by Santiago Nadal's pocket tens.
Luske was all in preflop for around 45,000 holding the . Nadal held the and spiked the winner after the board ran out .
Amit Makhija just busted Bulgarian player Rumen Nanev. All of the money went in preflop and Nanev's pocket threes couldn't come from behind against Makhija's pocket tens. Makhija is now up to nearly 300,000 in chips.
Sam Cohen was all in preflop with the against the for Sergey Baburin. Cohen flopped a flush draw on the flop, but couldn't find help on the turn and river.
Team PokerStars Pro Pius Heinz has just been eliminated by Dimitar Danchev. We are not sure the flow of the action but know it was all pre flop with Heinz holding pocket deuces, from the small blind, and Danchev holding pocket aces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.