We just witnessed a three-way all-in at table one.
The action folded around to Giuseppe Biancoviso in the cut-off and he shoved for 108,000 with . Panagiotis Gavriulidis and Jean-Philippe Rohr both moved in behind with ace-king but the Italian found a queen on the river to triple up.
Adrian Veghinas has fallen in 19th place after a set-up of a hand.
The action folded around to Jannick Wrang in the cut-off who raised. Fabrice Soulier put in a three-bet from the button and Veghinas four-bet shoved from the small blind. Wrang folded but Soulier snap called.
Veghinas:
Soulier:
The board ran to safely see a relived Soulier take the pot and the scalp.
David Vamplew had opened preflop to 32,000 and Andrea Benelli moved all in behind him for about 300,000, it was passed back around to the Scot and he instantly called.
Benelli:
Vamplew:
The board came and the pair shook hands. Can Vamplew make another EPT final table?
Stefano Demontis' tournament has come to an abrupt end in 21st place. The action folded around to him in the small blind and he decided to try and steal the blinds and antes by moving all in for 188,000. Stefano Puccilli was his opponent in the big blind and he made the call with to discover he was up against the of his all-in opponent.
The flop came down keeping the threes in front. The on the turn meant Demontis could not only hit a jack but it failed to materialise as the river was the .
We are now down to 19 players in the EPT Campione main event.
Despite having more than 1,700,000 chips in his stack Simeon Naydenov has employed the unusual strategy of moving all in whenever he wants to play a hand.
Just now Andrea Benelli opened on the button to 32,000 and Naydenov three-bet all in for 1,700,000 chips from the small blind. Stefano Demontis got out of the way and despite looking like he was going to call, Benelli ultimately got out of the way and folded his hand.
From under the gun Mario Nagel made it 32,000 to play and nobody wanted to tangle with him. That was until the action reached Olivier Busquet in the big blind. The heads-up specialist then three-bet to 79,000 putting the action back onto Nagel. He thought for 20-30 seconds before making the call.
A flop reading saw Busquet check and Nagel check behind, prompting the dealer to put the on the turn. Busquet checked again but this time Nagel decided to bet and he made it 123,000 to play and no sooner had he done that Busquet relinquished his hand.
Simeon Naydenov is a man on a mission today. He's already knocked out three players and is playing a brand of high variance power poker.
Balazs Botond opened to 34,000 and was called on the button by David Vamplew before Naydenov three-bet shoved from the big blind. It forced both players to fold in a "I'm the table captain" type of manoeuvre.
Primoz Adamie was all in for his last 250,000 with aganst Stefano Demontis' but the the door card was the and it was followed by a board of . Demontis was left sighing at his misfortune.
Pasquale Vinci has doubled up through Ramin Hajiyev, the Italian had moved all for 129,000 from the small blind and received a quick call from his opponent's in the big blind. Vinci looked to be heading out the door but spiked on the river of a board to stay in the game.
Ronnie Kaiser started the day with one of the shortest stacks of the final 24 players and in desperate need of a double up or two. When the action folded to him in late position he looked down to find staring back at him and decided that they were more than enough to get his chips into the middle with. Unfortunately for him Simeon Naydenov was sat there with and he made the call.
"No ace on the flop," pleaded Kaiser and the flop was void of an ace, but what the Swiss national forget to ask for was no nine too because the flop came down , followed by the turn and the river and Kaiser was eliminated in 22nd place, leaving David Vamplew as the only former EPT Champion in the field.