Annette Obrestad opened for 1,000 from the cutoff and got called by Olvedo Heinze on the button and big blind Noah Boeken. They saw a flop of 
and when Boeken checked Obrestad bet 1,600. Fold from Heinze but Boeken made the call.
The turn card was the 
which they checked and checked again on the river 
. It was Boeken to show first. “Just a jack.” he said. Obrestad waited for him to show the 
and laughed as she showed 
.
Griffin Benger is not particularly happy that the tournament today has been ten handed due the large number of entrants and he’s letting the table, the dealer, the floor and PokerNews know about it. It was unclear if his unhappiness was correlated to the size of his stack.
Toby Lewis to his right then started reminiscing about the time EPTs and WSOPs were occasionally 11 handed. Good times.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
13,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Alexey Prager bet 1,200 on a flop of 
and Toby Lewis raised him to 3,500.
Prager made the call and they saw a river card 
.
They both checked and Lewis wanted Prager to show first. He turned over 
and Lewis won with 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000
6,500
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6,500 |
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20,000
20,000
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20,000 |
Some big stacks are beginning to emerge here in the penultimate level of the night, and Ludovic Geilich is one of them. Earlier this month, Geilich, who plays online under "ludovi333," notched a Super Tuesday win for $101,325.13 following a four-handed deal at the final table. That online score came less than a year after Geilich won the PokerStars UKIPT Marbella Main Event for €130,000.
In a recent hand, four players each put in 1,100 preflop to see a flop of 
. All four checked, and then they did the same on the 
turn. When the 
completed the board on the river, Kirill Shugai checked from the small blind and Geilich bet 5,500 from the big. Team PokerStars Pro Christophe de Meulder called from the hijack, and then Hao Tian folded from the button followed by Shugai.
Geilich rolled over the 
for a rivered two pair, and it was good as de Meulder simply shook his head and then sent his cards to the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000
15,000
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15,000 |
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15,500
4,500
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4,500 |
|
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Patrick Bruel has been eliminated, he lost with 
to Myro Garcia's on a 
board.
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|---|---|---|
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Griffin Benger is out, he called all in with against Hendrik Latz' 
but couldn't hit enough on a 
board. Afterwards Benger was lamenting that he hadn't found a fold since apparently someone else had exposed an ace before he called all in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,000
87,000
|
87,000 |
|
|
150,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
|
109,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
100,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
83,500
62,500
|
62,500 |
|
82,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
73,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
71,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
71,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
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|
|
70,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
65,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
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55,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
50,000
3,050
|
3,050 |
|
50,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
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|
50,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
45,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
43,500
18,500
|
18,500 |
|
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|
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
40,000
14,300
|
14,300 |
|
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||
|
40,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
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|
37,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
32,200
5,800
|
5,800 |
|
31,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
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30,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
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Earlier in the day we told you about Matthis Habernig.
Back in 2010, the then 19-year-old Habernig from Klagenfurt, Austria made poker headlines when he topped a field of 364 players to win the Latin American Poker Tour Season III Florianopolis Main Event for $247,491. As if things couldn’t get any better, Habernig was back at a LAPT final table a month later. That’s when he navigated a field of 258 players to make the final table of the LAPT Season 3 Grand Finale in Rosario, Argentina. He ultimately took sixth place for $49,400.
Habernig has flown under the poker spotlight since as he finishes his university studies, but he decided to play a little poker in Monaco. Unfortunately, his time in the Grand Final came to an end in the penultimate level of Day 1b.
We missed his final hand, but Dermot Blain was kind enough to fill us in on the details. According to him, an under-the-gun player opened for 1,100 and Habernig called. Germany's Daniel Brickwell then three-bet to 3,500, the original raiser folded, and Habernig four-bet it to 9,000. Brickwell moved all in and Habernig called off for 22,000 total.
Habernig: 
Brickwell: 
Habernig was in dire straits, but he got lucky when the 
flop gave him a full house. A third on the turn meant Brickwell could catch either the case ten or one of the two remaining kings to win, and unfortunately for the young Austrian, a spiked on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
