You might not know Moshe Elazar, but you'll have heard of his brother, Mr. [PLAYER="eli-elezra"]Eli Elezra[/PLAYER]. Having chopped the Sunday Warm-Up and spinning it up on the EPT, PokerStars Blog catches up with the kid brother and hears stories of dealing for Doyle, Eli and Phil Ivey on a plane to the PCA.
There's no doubt, Ole Schemion is a beast... and he's not even 21 yet!
In a recent hand, there was around 200,000 in the middle and a board reading 
. Schemion had 250,000 out in front of him and was putting Ukraine's Igor Yaroshevskyy to the test. The minutes ticked by as Yaroshevskyy pondered what to do with his remaining 175,000.
Schemion is an aggressive player, so it was no doubt a tough decision. After nearly five minutes in the tank, someone at the table called a clock. The floor made his way over and informed Yaroshevskyy that he had one minute to act on his hand. With just ten seconds remaining, Yaroshevskyy opted to fold his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,200,000 | 100,000 |
|
175,000 | -171,000 |
Sarah gets in the Holiday spirit by having some poker pros sing their favorite holiday song.
We missed the precise action but another player told us that Ari Engel had opened to 17,000 preflop under the gun. Andrey Grenko had made it 41,000 and action folded back to Engel. According to the table mate Engel had started talking to himself and eventually had shoved all in for 290,000. Grenko made the call.
Engel had a mere 
to go to battle with while Grenko brought 
. If Grenko was Goliath and Engel was David, the board would be the stone thrown to the head: 
. Flush for Engel who left his Russian opponent with just 21,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
600,000 | 315,000 |
|
21,000 | -278,000 |
Romain Chauvassagne opened from early position to 16,000. Sitting to his left was Paolo Compagno who had 8,000, or one big blind, left. He put it in. Dmytko Samoilenko called as did Joao Simao. They saw a flop of 
. First to act, Simao moved all in for just over 100,000. Chauvassagne shook his head and folded and Samoilenko threw his cards in too. Simao’s 
had hit and the all-in player Compagno needed help with his 
. The board bricked out though and Compagno was left with no chips and no chair. He does take home €13,200 though, which should be some consolation.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
A hand to tell you about from the feature table now...
Stefan Kolossow four-bet all-in for 143,000 and Denys Drobyna, who already had 100,000 over the betting line, called off the extra.
Kolossow: 
Drobyna: 
The 
board meant Kolossow cracked jacks and is up over 300,000 whilst Drobyna is down to just 19,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
315,000 | 136,000 |
|
19,000 | -129,000 |
Down to just 189,000 Sergey Baburin committed them pre-flop with 
and got a call from Paolo Compagno, who held 
. The 
board kept Baburin in front and he doubled to around 405,000 whilst Compagno drops to 130,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
405,000 | 105,000 |
|
|
130,000 | -51,000 |
Jonathan Little opened for 16,000 under the gun and cleared the field to Ka Kwan Lau, who moved all in from the small blind for 144,000. The big blind folded and Little thought for about 30 seconds before making the call.
Lau:
Little: 
Lau and Little were off to the races, but it was the former that needed to improve to stay alive. The 
flop didn't allow him to do it, and neither did the 
turn. Lau needed a little help on the river to stay alive, and the dealer delivered by putting out the . Lau was all smiles while Little immediately took to his notebook.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
490,000 | -160,000 |
|
300,000 | 156,000 |
Marcelo da Fonseca opened for 16,000 and Ka Kwan Lau moved all in for 122,000. Da Fonseca made the call with versus the 
of Kwan Lau. It wasn’t the first time that Kwan Lau’s tournament life had been at risk today. A final board of 
meant that he survived again to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
248,000 | 144,000 |
|
90,000 | -110,000 |
Zdravko Duvnjak, a PokerStars player from the Netherlands raised from under-the-gun to 15,000. Vit Blachut called from the button and the blinds folded. 
on the flop and Duvnjak continued the story with a bet of 15,000. Blachut had by far the bigger stack and made the call. on the turn and a check from Duvnjak. Blachut took the opportunity to bet 35,000, turning the screw on the shorter stack. Duvnjak let it go.
