Andrey Pateychuk was all in preflop with pocket sevens versus the for JC Alvarado. The board ran out with an ace on the turn to give Alvarado the win and send Pateychuk out the door.
We've lost former EPT champion Andrey Pateychuk and high stakes PLO specialist Rui Cao in the last couple of minutes. Pateychuk in particular had been mostly grinding a short stack patiently all day and it appears his luck has just run out.
On the turn of a board, Alex Bilokur had fired a bet of 24,000 before Jean Noel Thorel made it 55,000 to play. Bilokur tanked, then moved all in for 75,600.
With 160,000 in the pot, Thorel needed to just put 20,600 more into the middle but after two minutes of thinking, he opted to fold instead.
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Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen pushed his short stack into the middle for his last 35,000 or so from the small blind and he was snap-called by Taylor Paur in the big blind.
After Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel opened with a raise, Steven Silverman reraised to 23,000. Duhamel then four-bet to 47,500 and Silverman made the call to see a flop.
The dealer ran out the and both players checked to see the land on the turn. Duhamel checked and Silverman bet 32,000. Duhamel called.
The river card was the and both players checked.
Silverman showed the for a pair of tens, but that wasn't good against the for Duhamel.
Igor Kurganov raised to 8,000 from the cutoff seat and Jonathan Duhamel reraised to 20,500 from the small blind. Kurganov called and the flop came down . Duhamel bet 23,500 and Kurganov folded his hand. With this pot, Duhamel has climbed over the 400,000-chip mark and into the chip lead.
With all of the hoopla surrounding the year Dan Smith is having, one can't forget about all that Duhamel has done on the felt in 2012. Coming into this event, Duhamel has earned over $1.4 million in this year and moved himself over the $11 million mark for lifetime tournament earnings. So what exactly has he done in 2012? Below are some of the highlights.
PCA $100,000 Super High Roller: 4th place — $313,600
PCA $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max Turbo: 5th place — $17,990
PCA $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Max: 1st place — $239,830
PCA $25,000 High Roller: 2nd place — $634,550
L.A. Poker Classic $5,100 No-Limit Hold'em: 2nd place — $121,115
WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars $9,500 Championship Event: 13th place — $25,620
Duhamel now has the chip lead and will be looking to a second EPT High Roller title to his tournament record. Im 2011, Duhamel won the EPT Deuville High Roller for €200,000.