With 55,000 in the pot and a flop reading , Pablo Tavitian checked and opened the door for Valentino Konakchiev to bet 31,000. Tavitian responded by moving all in and Konakchiev called off. Tavitian seemed as if he'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, which he had with his . Konakchiev flipped over the and doubled when the appeared on the turn followed by the on the river.
Nuno Da Camara's empty seat on Day 3 of EPT Barcelona, player never turned up and was the bubble
Nuno Da Camara was not at his seat and was all in on the big blind for his last 3,000. He hadn’t shown up today so his starting stack of 83,500 was gradually blinded away. Playing hand for hand, if no one else at the other tables was all in and knocked out then Camara would be the bubble, and all the other players would be in the money. If another player was knocked out at another table they would chop the lowest prize money of €8,680. Everyone was crowded round the table with the empty seat when the cry went up from another table, “All in and a call.” Everyone rushed over to see who was at risk.
Stefan Jedlicka, an Austrian PokerStars player, was all in for 27,000 and had been called by Christopher Andler in the big blind who could certainly afford it. When the tournament director was happy the players turned over their hands. Jedlicka had the inevitable while Andler had made the call with . Could he crack those aces and force Jedlicka to go home with €4,340, sharing it with Camara? The flop came . It would take runner runner to knock Jedlicka out. The turn was river and Jedlicka doubled his small stack.
Nuno Da Camara was the bubble. All the players are now in the money, hand for hand is over and we return to normal play.
We didn't catch the action, but we do know that Steven Watts just doubled through Season 7 champ Kent Lundmark over at the secondary feature table. It was an all-in preflop situation, and Watts won holding the against Lundmark's on a board reading .
Here's a look at updated chip counts from the secondary feature table.
Over at the secondary feature table, Ferdinando Lo Cascio got his stack of 124,000 all in preflop holding only to run into the of Thomas Butzhammer. The board ran out and Lo Cascio became one of the first post-bubble eliminations.
Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez got his stack of 93,500 all in preflop holding the and was racing against the of Pasi Sormunen. While the Argentinean got it in good, the flop paired Sormunen's ace.
Fernandez looked on helplessly as neither the turn nor river delivered him a third jack, and he became the first player of the day to be eliminated from the feature table.
We joined the action as PokerStars player Dikovic Dejan made a big river over bet to put Sergey Rybachenko, another PokerStars player, at risk. The board was . Rybachenko made the call and Dejan turned over . Rybachenko seemed a bit upset as he showed and walked away from the table.
From under the gun, Ole Schemion raised to 11,000. Francesco Paolo Conte called out of the big blind, and the flop came down . Conte checked, Schemion bet 15,000, and Conte called.
The landed on the turn, and Conte checked. Schemion bet 38,000, and Conte check-raised to 88,000. Schemion folded, and Conte won the pot.
Last year, Morten Mortensen finished tenth in this very event. Mortensen managed to notch back-to-back cashes by surviving the money bubble, but any hope he had of improving upon last year's finish just came to an end courtesy of Kevin Vandersmissen.
In the hand, Mortensen moved in from early position for 72,500 and Vandersmissen isolated by moving all in over the top from the cutoff. The rest of the players folded and the cards were turned up.
Mortensen:
Vandersmissen:
It was a bad spot for Mortensen as Vandersmissen held a slightly bigger pair. The board ran out and Vandersmissen denied Mortensen another deep run.
Meanwhile, Marcos Paneque was eliminated over at the secondary feature table.
, Pablo Tavitian checked and opened the door for Valentino Konakchiev to bet 31,000. Tavitian responded by moving all in and Konakchiev called off. Tavitian seemed as if he'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, which he had with his 
. Konakchiev flipped over the 
and doubled when the 
appeared on the turn followed by the 
on the river.
. Could he crack those aces and force Jedlicka to go home with €4,340, sharing it with Camara? The flop came 
. It would take runner runner to knock Jedlicka out. The turn was 
river 
and Jedlicka doubled his small stack.
on a board reading 
.
only to run into the 
and Lo Cascio became one of the first post-bubble eliminations.
and was racing against the 
flop paired Sormunen's ace.
turn nor 
. Conte checked, Schemion bet 15,000, and Conte called.
landed on the turn, and Conte checked. Schemion bet 38,000, and Conte check-raised to 88,000. Schemion folded, and Conte won the pot.
and Vandersmissen denied Mortensen another deep run.
