Although friends away from the felt, Mathew Frankland and Sam Grafton seem like sworn enemies at it. They keep locking horns and butting heads, and it was only a matter of time before a massive pot was created by them.
On a board, Grafton lead from the big blind for 43,000 (into an 80,000 pot) and Frankland called from his seat in the hijack. The river was the and Grafton announced, "Seventy-nine," before putting in three red 25,000 chips and four yellow 1,000 chips.
Frankland looked like he had a genuine decision to make and he sat replaying the hand in his head for around a minute before calling. Grafton revealed the for a full house and Frankland mucked.
Lone remaining Team PokerStars Pro Matthias de Meulder just saw his EPT Deauville Main Event run come to an end in 75th place following a hand versus the German, [Removed:4].
All of de Meulder's chips went in on the river with the board showing , with Rudelitz snap-calling de Meulder's final bet. The Belgian pro had a pair of aces, but Rudelitz showed a winner with for set of eights.
De Meulder adds a postscript from his @mattionfire Twitter account, echoing the sentiment of all of those falling shy of the big payouts to come:
Just ten spots from the money, button raises to 6k, I go all in from sb with QQ for 54k more, he calls w A8 and gets there. Frustrating. :(February 06 2013
Sebastien Saffari's Main Event dream is over but he has jumped into the €1,000 bounty turbo event that is taking place at the side of our station. Happy hunting.
Got my 63k in first hand on T97cc with JcTx v 88 and couldn't hold, GL to the boys still in. Now sitting in the 1k bounty turbo loving lifeFebruary 06 2013