We came up on this big three-way hand on the river with the board showing involving Dmitry Gromov (small blind), Zimnan Ziyard (big blind), and Laurent Polito (button).
By then the pot had already bloated up to around 20,000, and when Gromov checked Ziyard committed the last of his stack, forcing a fold from Polito. Gromov thought a while, then called, and Ziyard quickly showed his for a flopped full house. Gromov exhaled as he flashed a before mucking, and Ziyard collected the pot.
Former World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up, Martin Staszko, has been eliminated from the EPT Deauville main event at the hands of Jeffrey Hakim.
Hakim opened the preflop betting round with a min-raise to 400, two players folded and Staszko three-bet all-in for 3,400 in total. The action passed back to Hakim, he checked his cards once more and announced, "I call."
Hakim:
Staszko:
The flop was no help at all the Staszko and the turn was even worse as it improved Hakim to an unbeatable — in this hand at least — full house. The meaningless completed the board and confirmed Staszko's exit.
Max Heinzelmann check-called a bet of 1,200 against Harry Loria on a flop of before doing the same on the turn. The river saw both players check and Loria flipped but Heinzelmann had turned a straight and rivered a flush since he was holding .
Jamel Haddad has been eliminated after an all in preflop altercation with Mikhail Korotkikh, Haddad's unable to improve against Korotkikh's - the latter crying out loudly in Russian after he won on a board of
Pawel Brzeski looked even more disappointed, he'd folded preflop after the raising war...
Stelyan Georgiev's stack has been steadily climbing today. While his appearance is stoic, he's been active throughout the afternoon, involved in a high percentage of pots and winning enough to accumulate a 70,000-plus chip stack.
At the end of the previous level, Georgiev opened for 500 from middle position and got three callers, including both blinds. The quartet all checked the flop, then when the fell on the turn it checked through to Jiachen Gong in late position who bet 1,025, and only Georgiev called.
The river was the and both Georgiev and Gong checked. Gong showed , having failed to steal the pot on the turn, while Georgiev had for queens to claim the small pot.
Martin Jacobson and Bartlomiej Ryszard Machon tangled in a pot that left the latter with just 800 chips to play with.
Around 2,900 had made in into the middle by the time the two players hit the turn of a board. Jacobson led for 1,550 from the big blind and Machon called to see the river. The Swede bet 3,400 here and Macon called and mucked upon seeing .
Vanessa Rousso and Ilan Boujenah are sitting side-by-side, having therefore been forced to battle one another for pots frequently this afternoon. And now Rousso has recruited Boujenah to play a game of backgammon on her iPad, thus giving the pair another way to match wits.
That game just took a turn for the worse for Rousso, as both players are in the midst of bearing off, and Boujenah just rolled double 2's to enable him to remove four more checkers.
Meanwhile, Rousso was raising to 550 from middle position, picking up three callers in the hijack, cutoff, and big blind. The flop came , and when checked to Rousso fired a bet of 1,500, forcing folds all around and giving her the pot.
She stacked the chips with one hand while tapping to roll again with the other, hoping her next turn works out as well as that hand.
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involving Dmitry Gromov (small blind), Zimnan Ziyard (big blind), and Laurent Polito (button).
for a flopped full house. Gromov exhaled as he flashed a 
before mucking, and Ziyard collected the pot.
flop was no help at all the Staszko and the 
turn was even worse as it improved Hakim to an unbeatable — in this hand at least — full house. The meaningless 
completed the board and confirmed Staszko's exit.
before doing the same on the 
river saw both players check and Loria flipped 
but Heinzelmann had turned a straight and rivered a flush since he was holding 
- the latter crying out loudly in Russian after he won on a board of 
preflop after the raising war...
and both Georgiev and Gong checked. Gong showed 
, having failed to steal the pot on the turn, while Georgiev had 
for queens to claim the small pot.
river. The Swede bet 3,400 here and Macon called and mucked upon seeing 
