It Won't End in Prague for ElkY
Super disappointing bust out of #EPTPrague . JJ vs QQ on T high board guy played it well too, tricky flat out of sb… #whenwillitendDecember 12 2012Follow
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | Busted |
Super disappointing bust out of #EPTPrague . JJ vs QQ on T high board guy played it well too, tricky flat out of sb… #whenwillitendDecember 12 2012Follow
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | Busted |
There's more than one way to four-bet light. In one way, you can four-bet with a poor hand (deuce-seven off, jack-deuce etc.). In another, you can four-bet for less than a legal raise.
In a recent hand, Marco Leonzio did the latter.
Leonzio opened to 10,000 from early position, Sergey Baburin called two spots to his left, and Mark Herm three-bet to 34,500 in position. The action folded back to Leonzio, and the Italian pulled back his original bet. He then cut out 45,000 in blue T5,000 chips, and tossed them forward.
"He called?" Baburin asked the dealer.
It looked like the dealer shook his head "no," and a befuddled Baburin folded. Herm, who was confused as well, moved all in for effectively 80,000 or so, and Leonzio instantly called.
Herm:
Leonzio:
The flop fell , leading Herm to scrunch his face, and the turn brought the . Leonzio was one card away from elimination, but the spiked on the river to give him a winning pair of queens.
Leonzio jumped out of his chair, gave a whoop, and actually clapped our reporter on the back while celebrating. He more than doubled to around 165,000 chips, while Herm slipped to around 170,000.
Not to worry, according to Herm's Twitter account, he doubled a few hands later:
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Mark Herm | 350,000 | 80,000 |
Marco Leonzio | 165,000 | 71,000 |
John Eames, fresh from signing a deal with IveyPoker.com, is climbing up the chip counts. The young Brit is almost at 200,000 chips now and is a serious threat.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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John Eames | 198,000 | 53,200 |
Stuart Rutter's tournament has come to an abrupt end, just six places off the money. Rutter had been grinding a short stack all tournament long, but he couldn't hang in there.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Stuart Rutter | Busted |
Alex Goulder has not got off to the best of starts here on Day 3; he has lost half of his stack.
We haven't caught him in action yet, but his Twitter feed speaks for itself:
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Alexander Goulder | 140,000 | -142,000 |
Mike "SirWatts" Watson has just been eliminated over on Table 2 after a clash with Tudor Purice. Watson opened, Purice raised all-in and Watson called — though he did not seem to impressed about the idea.
Watson opened and was up against the of Purice. The door card was the and when the following four cards read Watson's tournament was over. No doubt we will see him in the High Roller tomorrow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Tudor Purice | 400,000 | 105,000 |
Mike Watson
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Busted |