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Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Alain Roy has added some chips to his stack after making a call with ace-high against German pro Marko Neumann.
We missed the actual action, but saw Neumann fire a 3,000 bet on the river of a 
board, a bet that Roy called. Neumann flipped over pocket fives and was playing the board, but Roy turned over 
and his ace-kicker took down the pot.
"YES!" Ioannis Koulopoulos shouted. "YES!"
We rushed over to see what had happened, and 
was sitting in front of him. The board read 
, his opponent had 
, and Koulopoulos doubled with quad aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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61,000
31,000
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31,000 |
Three players each put in 1,900 preflop and saw a flop of 
. Konstantin Puchkov checked from early position, as did Jiri Kulhanek from middle position, and Oleg Perepletchikov bet 2,200 from the hijack.
Puchkov got out of the way, Kulhanek moved all in for right around 11,000, and Perepletchikov quickly called.
Showdown
Perepletchikov: 
Kulhanek: 
According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Perepletchikov was a 91.31% favorite to win the hand with queens and three, which notched Kulhanek's tens and threes. The latter had a 8.69% chance of getting lucky, but that dropped to 4.55% on the 
turn.
When the 
completed the board on the river, Kulhanek rapped the table and took his leave from the Main Event; meanwhile, Perepletchikov chipped up to 70,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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61,000
4,000
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4,000 |
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Before the level changed, Laurent Polito opened to 450 from under the gun, Justas Vaiciulionis - who is currently grinding online via the PokerStars mobile app - called in middle position, and the player in the big blind three-bet to 18,500. Only Vaiciulionis called.
The flop came 
, and the player in the small blind led out four 1,700. Vaiciulionis called. The turn was the 
, the player in the small blind checked, and Vaiciulionis fired 6,000. His opponent tank-called.
The river was the 
, and the player checked again. Vaiciulionis tossed out 10,100, and his opponent thought for more than 30 seconds, then called.
Vaiciulionis triumphantly tabled 
for a flopped set of sevens, but his opponent showed for a set of aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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10,000
-20,000
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-20,000 |
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Oleg Perepletchikov seems to be causing all sorts of problems at his table and helping himself to opponents' chips.
He's sat next to Liv Boeree and she looked up at us and shook her head when her neighbour was busy getting Jacques Zaicik to fold in a hand. Maybe (probably) he took her chips.
Zaicik folded on the river of a 
board to drop to 28,000. The Frenchman is in hot from right now after winning $178,569 for his 4th place finish at the recent Asian Championship of Poker in Macau.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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88,000
18,000
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4,500
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It may have only be a small pot that Melanie Weisner won, but they all add up when all is said and done.
Weisner opened to 500 from late position and picked up two callers; both of whom were seated in the blinds. The first to call was Roberto Masullo in the small blind and Rohid Omari felt he was priced in to call from the big blind.
The trio shared a 
flop, but neither blind wanted to get involved and they checked to Weisner, who continued with a 500 chip bet. Both blinds quickly folded in turn and Weisner helped herself to an easy pot.
Wayne Bentley raised to 500 in middle position, Arnaud Mattern called out of the small blind, and the flop fell 
. Mattern checked, Bentley continued for 575, and Mattern check-raised to 1,300.
Bentley immediately moved all in for around 5,000, and Mattern snap-folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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27,500
-9,500
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Finnish legend Juha Helppi has been on a steady climb here on Day 1a and currently sits on a stack of 44,000.
In a recent hand, there was about 8,000 in the pot and a board reading 
when Helppi, who won an EPT Berlin €1,000 Pot Limit Omaha-Rebuy side event for €41,300 back in April, bet 3,375 from the under-the-gun position. His opponent, Sweden's Tobias Ekman, gave it some thought before letting it go, dropping to 15,600 in the process.
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44,000
15,100
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15,100 |