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We don't have the story behind it, but Luke Schwartz no longer seems to be in the field of the 42 remaining players. We're unsure as to whether or not he has plans to rebuy.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
As it currently stands, 54 players have entered the 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller. Of those 54, three of them (Masa Kagawa, Jonathan Duhamel and Steve O'Dwyer) have rebought after busting, putting the total entries up to 57.
It's also known that Daniel Negreanu plans to rebuy and there's the chance some of the others may as well. PokerNews will keep you posted.
Level: 8
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Less than an hour after rebuying, a preflop raising war resulted in Jonathan Duhamel being all in preflop with 
and up against the 
of Vadzim Kursevich. The latter barely had the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champ covered, and he needed to improve if he hoped to eliminate a tough competitor.
The 
flop was innocent enough, but the 
turn was a dagger through Duhamel's heart as it paired Kursevich. The 
river would provide no relief, and Duhamel exited the tournament for a second time. He has the option to rebuy again, but only time will tell if he elects to do so.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
410,000 | 180,000 |
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Busted |
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier is known for using the Twitter hastag "#justbadluck" or "#jbl" when he tweets. This time around, Mercier was on the end of some good luck when he tripled up by catching a flush on the river. Here's what happened.
From under the gun, Mercier raised to 8,000 and [Removed:283] called from the next seat. Mike Watson called out of the cutoff position, Jonathan Duhamel called from the small blind and Philipp Gruissem called from the big blind. From there, all five players saw the flop come down 
and action checked around to Watson.
With 43,500 in the middle, Watson bet 20,000 and that folded out Duhamel. Gruissem called and then Mercier check-raised all in for 135,000. [Removed:288] requested a count, received it and then made the call. Watson folded.
Gruissem took some time to himself to think. Eventually, he made the call and gave Mercier the chance to triple his stack if he were to win the hand.
The turn was the 
and Gruissem checked. [Removed:288] moved all in, putting Gruissem to the test. After he moved all in, [Removed:288] stood up from the table and began to walk over to his rail. He was instructed back to the table because there was still pending action with Gruissem in the hand. On his way back to the table, [Removed:288]'s phone rang and he answered it, quickly saying something in another language to the person on the other end before abruptly hanging up. He then sat back in his seat and waited for Gruissem to act. After a minute or so, Gruissem folded and [Removed:288] was left to do battle with Mercier.
Both players tabled the same hand; Mercier held the 
and [Removed:288] held the 
. Mercier did have a flush draw to go along with his hand for some added insurance. Mercier would be the first to tell you, he was "freerolling" [Removed:288].
The river landed with the 
and Mercier had made his heart flush to win the pot. [Removed:288] didn't see the flush and tried to argue when the dealer began pushing Mercier the pot. The dealer showed [Removed:288] the flush, which upset the 2010 EPT Vilamoura High Roller winner. Mercier collected the chips and moved to nearly 450,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
448,500 | 198,500 |
|
|
380,000 | 214,000 |
|
345,000 | 95,000 |
After [Removed:283] checked the 
board and Mike Watson bet 50,000. [Removed:288] check-raised to 100,000 and Watson tanked. After a minute or two, Watson moved all in for 211,000. [Removed:288] called.
[Removed:288] showed the 
for two pair, aces and tens. Unfortunately for him, Watson held a better two pair with the 
. The river completed the board with the and Watson successfully doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
570,000 | 320,000 |
|
|
505,000 | 339,000 |
Masa Kagawa has returned to the tournament floor with registration slip in hand. That means he's opted to rebuy and is back in action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
PokerNews has received the information on the Sorel Mizzi elimination hand. According to our sources, Mizzi was all in preflop with 
against the 
for Dan Shak. Despite taking the lead on a queen-high flop, Mizzi lost the hand after Shak turned a nine and rivered an ace. Shak is now up to 265,000 in chips.
Much action in poker does not necessarily mean seeing cards being dealt on the board. Luke Schwartz and JC Alvarado just proved that with some crazy preflop action.
It was Schwartz who made the first move with a 8,000 raise in the cutoff position and Alvarado contradicted by re-raising to 22,000. Action folded back to Schwartz who increased to 40,000.
Alvarado had to think over this one for a while to finally fire a five-bet of 68,000. The stack grew too big for Schwartz and he folded.
