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The dream is over for Yevgeniy Timoshenko, he got his stack in with 
preflop against Martin Lute's 
but the board ran out 
and the only thing Timoshenko was left with was good luck wishes for everyone else at the table.
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A few more players have turned up after the dinner break including High Stakes phenom Philipp Gruissem and Dutchman Mateusz Moolhuizen (whose name I managed to spell correctly without looking - hurrah!)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000 |
EPT Prague Champion Martin Finger was just seen talking to some people who were still sitting at their tables playing the tournament. He was talking just a little bit too long with these gentlemen for him to be just sitting out a couple of hands. We asked him if he indeed was eliminated and he was kind enough to tell us the details of his bust out.
Finger had opened with pocket aces from early position and Ludovic Geilich on the button, who won one of the side events during the EPT in Vienna a couple of weeks ago, was the sole caller.
Finger made a continuation bet on 
-rainbow and Geilich, who had been playing just about every pot according to Finger, made the call. Finger, who had started the hand with 27,000, bet another 3,900 once the 
popped up on the turn giving him top set. Geilich instantly called.
The river was a 
and Finger checked. Geilich then snap shoved all in and Finger made the call, only to see him Geilich turn over 
for the straight.
We might see Finger, who played the €100,000 Super High Roller earlier this week as well, again in the €25,000 High Roller later this week.
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If you think television interferes too much with poker, you should see what's going on in the tournament room today. A TV producer picked up cards and fed them back in the deck, and even redistributed chips to stacks after a pot played out! Stranger than fiction? Find out at PokerStars Blog.
It's ironic that Phil Ivey is yawning in the picture. That's because we're accustomed to our orbits being rather boring, but the ten hands we just spent with Ivey were anything but.
Ivey is largely considered the best poker player in the world, so we thought it wise to spend some time observing him in the hopes of discovering what makes him so good. Well, when you win 40% of the hands we watch — and 100% of the hands you play — it helps explain a lot.
Here are the ten hands we spent with Ivey just before the dinner break on Day 1b of the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €10,600 Main Event.
Hand #1 (Middle Position): Ivey opened for 900 when action folded to him and Vasili Firsau, who was in the big blind, decided to defend. The 
flop saw Firsau check-call a bet of 1,300, and then both players checked the 
turn. Action repeated itself on the river and Firsau showed he had missed a straight with the 
. Ivey then tabled the 
to win the pot.
Hand #2 (Middle Position): Once again Ivey opened for 900, and the player to his left called. Firsau came along from the small blind and three players took a flop of 
. Firsau checked, Ivey bet 1,500, and both his opponents folded. Back-to-back wins for the superstar.
Hand #3 (Early Position): Ivey folded.
Hand #4 (Early Position): Sam Cohen raised under the gun and Ivey folded.
Hand #5 (Under the Gun): Ivey folded.
Hand #6 (Big Blind): A player in early position limped, Oliver Price raised to 1,100, and Ivey folded when action reached him.
Hand #7 (Small Blind): Price opened for 900 under the gun and received two called. Ivey then three-bet to 5,000 from the small blind and inspired all his opponents to fold.
Hand #8 (Button): Ivey folded to a raise in front of him.
Hand #9 (Cutoff): Action folded to Ivey and he followed suit.
Hand #10 (Hijack): Action folded to Ivey and this time he raised to 900, which Team PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck called from the big blind. The flop came down 
and Wahlbeck ended up check-folding to a bet of 1,000.
Ivey finished the orbit with right around 67,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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67,500 | 21,500 |
Bruel is an actor and singer of monumental fame. While to people like us he’s a poker player blessed with a talent that has lasted years in a rapidly changing game, to everyone else he is the face on the cover of magazines, or the subject of gossip columnists, as well as a principle participant in the French film and music industry. The PokerStars Blog reports on meeting this French cultural icon, and satisfying the demands of French in-laws.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
The players now have 75 minutes to find some food.
