Gianluca Speranza raised to 2,500 in the middle position and Shaun Deeb, who was non-stop chatting to his buddies Isaac Haxton and Yevgeniy Timoshenko at the table, suddenly went dead silent after seeing his cards and made the call from the hijack seat. The rest folded, and the two went to the flop.
The dealer opened the . Speranza continued for 2,700, and Deeb called again. The on the turn received no bets, and neither did the on the river. Speranza showed the for a pair of eights, which was good enough to make Deeb muck his hand.
Last night, online grinder Keven 'Stammdogg' Stammen took down the €2,100 turbo for €92,000 beating the likes of Mclean Karr, Shannon Shorr and Jude Ainsworth to the biggest slice of the pie.
We didn't catch the hand, but Alain Roy has been eliminated from the tournament. In the every next hand after his demise, Sofia Lovgren opened for 2,700 from the cutoff only to have Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth three-bet to 5,900 from the small blind. Lovgren, who is up considerably since the last time we checked in with her, sent her cards to the muck.
Luca Pagano opened from late position for 2,800 only to be three-bet by Alfonso Illiano from the button. Pagano was facing a raise to 6,100 and decided to four-bet his opponent all in by plopping down a large stack of blue t5,000 chips. Illiano called and showed which was ahead of Pagano's .
The board ran out and Pagano was forced to ship 27,700 over to Illiano. Pagano is now sitting on about 57,000.