We saw the camera crew swarn and [Removed:283] rise from his seat, so we made our way over to discover what all the hubbub was about. When we arrived, we found the Italian was all in for around 300,000 with on a board reading . His opponent, Anatoly Gurtovoy, held the and was way out in front headed to the river.
There was a brief pause, and then the dealer burned and put out the . Gurtovoy improved to two pair to win the pot, and [Removed:288], who won the €10,000 High Roller event at the 2012 EPT Vilamoura for €100,880, made a hasty exit from the tournament floor.
Action folded to Juha Helppi who called 6,000 in the small blind and Sami Kelopuro checked in the big blind.
The flop ran and both players checked. The dealer opened on the turn and Helppi bet 10,000. Kelopuro then raised to 30,000 and Helppi made the call.
The dealer burned and turned on the river. Helppi checked and Kelopuro bet another 53,000. Helppi thought about it for two minutes or so and made the call. Kelopuro opened for a two pair and Helppi mucked.
Vadzim Kursevich raised from the hijack and received a call from Jonathan Duhamel in the cutoff. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier then moved all in for 153,000 from the small blind, Kursevich called, and Duhamel got out of the way.
Showdown
Kursevich:
Grospellier:
Grospellier was dominated and wasn't optimistic, but he did perk up a bit when the flop gave him more outs to a straight. The Frenchman even eased back into his chair a bit when the turn gave him flush outs to stay alive. The dealer burned one last time and out out the on the river, a blank as far as Grospellier was concerned.
According to Jason Mercier, who was kind enough to fill us in on the details, action folded to [Removed:288] in the small blind and he opened for 16,000. Ivey was in the big blind and opted to ship for around 260,000, which [Removed:288] called with . Ivey held the inferior and was in need of some help. The flop put out some runner-runner options, but the turn took them away. The river was of no consequence, and [Removed:288] eliminated Ivey for a second time.
Daniel Negreanu's Day 2 didn't go much better than it did yesterday. Over at the feature table, "Kid Poker" managed to get his stack all in preflop with only to find himself up against the of Dan Smith. The board would run out clean for Smith, who continued to roll in the early levels by chipping up to 1.7 million.
Meanwhile, Negreanu made a quiet exit from the tournament floor--€100,000 poorer.
We joined the hand with the already on the board along with Ilari Sahamies' bet of 125,000 and Tobias Reinkemeier's raise to 276,000.
Sahamies decided to really take his time to make the decision and had the clock called on him. The floor had to start the countdown of Sahamies' last ten seconds to act, which ended in the Finn splashing in the chips for a call, but the floor announced it was already too late and therefore Sahamies was forced to fold.
Sahamies flipped the hand to show , while Reinkemeier didn't show.