John Eames has just stopped by the press area to inform us of his untimely demise.
Eames managed to grind his shortish stack all the way to the penultimate level of play, but his pocket kings fell foul of ace-queen when an ace flopped. No miracle two out for Eames and he was sent to the rail. GG sir.
Table 9 over in the corner of the room is an interesting one. The conversation may be surprisingly small seeing as Sergii Baraniv is in attendance, but the stacks are large.
The comeback kid, Gordon Huntly, is there and amassed even more chips, and two of the overnight chips leaders, in Jesper Feddersen and Casey Kastle are also sat there.
Baranov is probably muted as he has a short stack and needs to concentrate. His 20 big blind stack (roughly) is perfect for three-bet-shoving and that's exactly what he did two hands in a row after Feddersen raised. Feddersen folded the first time and also had to admit defeat the second time when the Ukrainian's 41,600 all in forced him to fold.
One player who's shove did get called was Shinya Shimada. He was very short and shoved from the button with 5h]. Tomas Pleticha was in the big blind with pocket tens and called but dropped to 50,000 chips after an ace flopped.
Back over 100, had a bad run and fell to 40, tables still amazing but keep missing the community cards against ppl that don't fold #TeamIveyFebruary 05 2013
Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder is motoring along right now, the young Belgian seems to have a good feel for where he is at on his table.
Nicolas Lambert opened to 5,200 from UTG+1 and as the other players were folding, the were exposed. This did not stop De Meulder from calling from the big blind.
The flop saw De Meulder check, then call a 4,600 continuation-bet from Lambert. Both players checked the turn but when the fell on the turn, De Meulder lead for 5,200 and Lambert reluctantly folded.
On the turn of a board, Jesper Feddersen saw his bet of 8,800 check-raised to 20,500 by Karen Sarkisyan. The German chip leader from Day 1A responded by moving all in.
Sarkisyan took a minute then called off with , ahead of Feddersen's which was the way it stayed on the river.
We've seen Ghassan El Hoss all in and at risk with his short stack on multiple occasions today, and each time he's survived. However, things appeared especially grim for El Hoss just now when he open-pushed his last 20,000 or so from early position, then saw Cristian Tardea reraise all in for more than twice that from a few seats over, then saw Jean Vasseur push all in from late position over the top.
Then the trio tabled their hands…
El Hoss:
Tardea:
Vasseur:
El Hoss was delighted to see he was drawing live, and even more ecstatic after the flop came . The turn was the and river the . "Treble up!" said El Hoss who won the main pot, while Vasseur took the side pot and Tardea hit the rail.
He was the youngest person to win poker's Triple Crown and was looking to break more records this week by becoming the first player to win two EPTs. It's not going to happen as Jake Cody is out.
The Team PokerStars Pro squeezed all in for 27,000 from the small blind after Mathew Frankland opened to 5,000 from under the gun and Bruno Le Garrec called from the next seat.
Frankland folded (with a look of regret at raising so much) but Le Garrec called.
Lex Veldhuis has just doubled up after getting his stack in with a pair of aces versus an opponent's J-J. The flop brought an ace to give Veldhuis a set and thus did the revelation of the remaining community cards come sans inquiétude.
5h]. Tomas Pleticha was in the big blind with pocket tens and called but dropped to 50,000 chips after an ace flopped.
board being called, a bet Frankland had made with 
for a set of nines.
were exposed. This did not stop De Meulder from calling from the big blind.
flop saw De Meulder check, then call a 4,600 continuation-bet from Lambert. Both players checked the 
turn but when the 
fell on the turn, De Meulder lead for 5,200 and Lambert reluctantly folded.
board, Jesper Feddersen saw his bet of 8,800 check-raised to 20,500 by Karen Sarkisyan. The German chip leader from Day 1A responded by moving all in.
, ahead of Feddersen's 
which was the way it stayed on the 
river.
