On a flop Portuguese player Antonio Palma had checked to Jonathan Duhamel who bet 1,200. Timothy Adams made the call, but now that action was back on Palma he showed he had more aggressive plans. Palma raised it up to 4,000 and Duhamel called after some thinking. This lured in Adams who called as well.
The on the turn made Palma toss in two 5,000 chips. Duhamel wasn't about to call that 10,000 bet, he moved in for slightly less than 2.5 times that amount. Adams folded and Palma immediately called.
The excitement was soon over though as both showed the nuts with no redraw. Duhamel had [AhJs} while Palma had . The river made Adams shake his head a little bit, that queen probably would have helped him but wouldn't prevent Palma and Duhamel from chopping up the pot.
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With late registration open until the start of Day 2 there is still plenty of time left for players to enter the EPT Vienna Main Event. We do however want to keep you posted on the numbers, as we're currently up to 530 players on Day 1b.
Including yesterday's 341 players the total of this event is now up to 871. Winning the tournament on Saturday will involve getting a hold of at least 26,130,000 chips, but that number is very likely to keep growing!
We didn't catch the action, but we do know that Ismail Erkenov just double through fellow Russian Yury Gulyy. The board read , and from what we could piece together the chips went in on the flop.
Gulyy:
Erkenov:
Gulyy had flopped an open-ended straight draw, but he failed to get there. Erkenov's pair of queens kept him alive, though he only double to about 10,000.
Johnny Lodden, a Team PokerStars Pro, made a three-bet to 1,350 while yawning. It’s what he does. Igin Viacheslav in the big blind made the call, but when it got back to Ludovic Riehl he decided to four-bet to 3,850. Both Lodden and Viacheslav made the call.
They saw a flop and all three players checked. Turn card and, when it was checked to Lodden, a bet of 6,550 from him saw the other players fold and the pot pushed his way.
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flop Portuguese player Antonio Palma had checked to Jonathan Duhamel who bet 1,200. Timothy Adams made the call, but now that action was back on Palma he showed he had more aggressive plans. Palma raised it up to 4,000 and Duhamel called after some thinking. This lured in Adams who called as well.
on the turn made Palma toss in two 5,000 chips. Duhamel wasn't about to call that 10,000 bet, he moved in for slightly less than 2.5 times that amount. Adams folded and Palma immediately called.
. The river 
made Adams shake his head a little bit, that queen probably would have helped him but wouldn't prevent Palma and Duhamel from chopping up the pot.
, and from what we could piece together the chips went in on the flop.
flop and all three players checked. Turn card 
and, when it was checked to Lodden, a bet of 6,550 from him saw the other players fold and the pot pushed his way.
