Last night Olivier Busquet endured a rough patch, surviving it with gusto to bag up close to a million. He’s no on course to reach his first EPT final and talked to us last night about his day.
Read the full story on the PokerStars Blog.
Fabrice Soulier is maintaining his place near the top of counts after he eliminated Alessandro Minasi.
The action folded around to Frenchman on the button and he raised and called when Minasi shoved from the big blind.
Soulier: 
Minasi: 
The board ran 
to make Soulier two-pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,950,000
425,000
|
425,000 |
|
Busted |
Robin Ylitalo raised to 40,000 from UTG and was called by Mario Nagel in the small blind. Alexandre Andermatt made it 125,000 from the big. Ylitalo flat-called and Nagel folded.
The flop was 
and Andermatt bet 155,000 but he mucked fairly quickly when Ylitalo moved all in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,800,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
|
||
|
450,000
370,000
|
370,000 |
Ramin Hajiyev and Balazs Botond have started to become quite active over on Table 2 and have clashed with each other on a number of occasions during the last orbit.
A couple of hands ago Botond opened from under the gun to 42,000, two players folded and Hajiyev made it 97,000 to play from the hijack seat. With the action back on Botond the Hungarian four-bet to 175,000 but instantly folded as Hajiyev moved all in.
The very next hand Hajiyev opened to 40,000 and Botond, now in the big blind, was his only customer. The flop came down 
and Botond check-called a 55,000 bet from his opponent. The turn brought the into play and when Botond checked Hajiyev checked behind, taking the hand to the 
river. Botond now lead with a bet of 83,000 and Hajiyev made the call.
Botond: 
Hajiyev: Muck
This could be the start of a very interesting dynamic between the two, hold onto your hats folks!
Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
| Table | Seat | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Mario Nagel |
| 1 | 2 | Alexandre Andermatt |
| 1 | 3 | Robin Ylitalo |
| 1 | 4 | Koen De Visscher |
| 1 | 5 | Fabrice Soulier |
| 1 | 6 | Pasquale Vinci |
| 1 | 7 | Alessandro Minasi |
| 1 | 8 | Giuseppe Biancoviso |
| 2 | 1 | Stefano Puccilli |
| 2 | 2 | Balazs Botond |
| 2 | 3 | Primoz Adamie |
| 2 | 4 | David Vamplew |
| 2 | 5 | Ramin Hajiyev |
| 2 | 6 | Olivier Busquet |
| 2 | 7 | Simeon Naydenov |
| 2 | 8 | Jannick Wrang |
The players have been sent on a break whilst the tournament staff rearrange the tables. The new seat draw will be published as soon as we have it in our possession.
Koen De Visscher is on a charge like he was on yesterday. He's knocked out another player in Jean-Philippe Rohr.
The action folded around to the Frenchman on the button and he shoved for his remaining 285,000. The Belgian was in the big blind and called after getting a count.
Rohr: 
De Visscher: 
The board ran 
.
We're already at the halfway mark. Table three will now be broken amongst tables one and two. We'll bring you the refreshed table draw as soon as we have it.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,020,000
320,000
|
320,000 |
|
Busted |
The players are dropping like proverbial flies at the moment and we are now down to just 18 of them here in Campione.
The latest casualty was Panagiotis Gavriulidis who moved all in with his short-stack holding 
and Koen De Visscher made the call with 
. The board ran out 
and Gavriulidis headed for the rail, via the cashier's cage of course.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,700,000
842,000
|
842,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Alessandro Minasi was all in preflop for his last 153,000 against Fabrice Soulier.
Minasi: 
Soulier: 
The board came 
and Minasi doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,350,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
300,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
