Roberto Romanello woke up one morning and found himself second in the EPT Player of the Year contest. Now it’s the ultimate prize for the dedicated Welshman, who’s off the booze.
Full story can be found on the PokerStars Blog
Since spiking his straight earlier to catapult himself to 155,000 chips Chris Moorman has slowly slid down the chip counts, seemingly unable to connect with the board any more. In a hand just now he opened to 2,600 from middle position, Pantagiotis Gariuldis called to Moorman's direct left and after one player folded Atanas Gueorguiev called too.
The three of them saw the dealer put out the 
flop, a flop that Moorman made a 5,200 continuation bet on. This folded out Gavriulidis but Gueorgiev called. The turn brought a second four into play, the 
, and when Moorman checked his now sole opponent checked behind.
The fifth and final community card was the 
and when Moorman checked Gueorgiev bet two 5,000 chips. Moorman was not prepared to make the call and he sent his card back towards the dealer.
Rupert Elder had a plan in a hand and god-dammit he was going to see it through.
Nicolas Chouity opened to 2,600 from the cut-off and was called by Fabrizio Leonardi, Christian Togsverd and Rupert Elder in the next three seat. All of them checked the 
flop before Elder led for 5,400 on the 
turn. Leonardi was the only caller and he also called a 16,000 bet on the river.
Elder went a little red and opened 
. His Italian opponent tabled 
whilst staring at him.
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Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree is back heading the right direction.
David Vamplew had raised to 2,400 UTG with calls from Marco Bognanni and Michael Bonzon before Robin Vlitalo made it 7,100 on the button. Boeree moved all in for 36,100 in the big blind and Vamplew quickly folded, Bognanni then made an incredibly quick call, Bonzon and Vlitalo folded.
Bognanni: 
Boeree: 
Board: A tension free 
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Nicolas Chouity is looking grumpy, he's dropped down a bit further after his 
lost to Michael Polchlopek's 
after the board came
. The former EPT Monte Carlo champion is back below 200,000
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Matthias De Meulder was at a high point of 146,000 not so long ago. Now he's debating jumping in the 2k side event after busting after a series of hands went badly for him.
The biggest pot he lost was with pocket queens. He got all the way to the river on a 
and levelled himself into calling after the big blind check-raised all-in with 
. The big blind was bluffing with the best hand.
He managed to double up to 30,000 with pocket nines, before he lost a few small pots.
He exit hand came when he shoved for 21,000 with after a player had limped. His opponent called with king-queen and the Belgian Team PokerStars Pro was done for.
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Although these plastic cards are quite versatile they often need replacing due to being bent and accidently marked but sometimes they just disappear!
Over on Table 11 the floor was called to change the deck because the dealer had fired a card across the table and it had gone under rail of the table, possibly never to be seen again. The floor exchanged the red-backed deck for a black-backed one just in case the offending card decides to make an appearance again.
"You're so strong," joked Olivier Busquet, causing the female dealer to blush a little.
Nicolas Chouity won the EPT Grand Final for €1,700,000 but now, two years later, is still trying to get the recognition he deserves.
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A preflop raising war broke out that resulted in Sorokin Alekseevich pushing all in with what turned out to be 
. Australian Jeffrey Rossiter called with and when the board ran out 
it was curtains for the Russian.
