Catch up with the seat draws and starting stacks of both Day 3 of the €5k EPT Main Event and Day 2 of the big €2k side event. Check out the Main Event here and the €2k side event here.
We were camped out at Table 18 at just the right time as two back-to-back hands unfolded.
In the first, a short-stacked Oliver Price moved all in from middle position for his last 49,000 or so holding the 
. One by one his opponents folded to Gus Hansen, who happened to wake up with the 
in the big blind. "The Great Dane" made the call, and Price failed to find a trey as the board ran out a dry 
.
In the very next hand, Mikko Turtiainen moved all in from the cutoff for 39,800 and Poland's Dariusz Paszkiewicz shoved all in over the top from the button. Both blinds folded and Turtiainen discovered the bad news.
Paszkiewicz : 
Turtiainen: 
The 
flop kept Paszkiewicz firmly in the lead, but then the dealer burned and turned the 
. Turtiainen paired his ace and Paszkiewicz was distraught. He slapped the table in frustration and then watched helplessly as the 
river left him with just 18,500 in chips.
"Ace-ten is tough," Hansen commented after the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
280,000 | 62,000 |
|
90,000 | 12,300 |
|
18,500 | -47,900 |
|
Busted |
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Israeli PokerStars player Ori Hasson has busted with 
all in preflop against the 
of Marko Vukoja. No help on the flop and Hasson left empty handed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
220,000 | 121,900 |
|
Busted |
Jan Bendik, the EPT Season 9 Player of the Year, just knocked out both Matuesz Moolhuizen and Aram Sargsyan in a huge pot.
Moolhuizen raised to 6,000 and Sargsyan called from the cutoff after which Bendik three-bet from the big blind to 18,000. Both his opponents called.
The flop brought out 
and Bendik bet 30,000, after which Moolhuizen and Sargsyan moved all in. Bendik quickly made the call and he put to players at risk.
"A set?" Moolhuizen cried, as he was visibly distraught by being faced with two opponents while all in for his tournament life.
Moolhuizen showed 
versus Bendik's 
and Sargsyan's 
. The board ran out , and Bendik raked in this huge pot. Moolhuizen was far from happy and he stormed out of the room.
"It's so insane," Moolhuizen said afterwards, "The same exact thing happened at the PCA."
"I knew he was strong," Moolhuizen said about Bendik's preflop three-bet, "So I just called preflop, and on the flop I only had about 100,000 chips so I can't really get away from queens."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000 | 102,400 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Jack Salter has just tweeted about a four-bet pot he was involved in...
Lose 77 vs AA down to 170k then win huge pot with AA vs AKo. He call my turn shove on QQ92r. 375kFollow @jackziyang
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
375,000 | 145,800 |
Joep van den Bijgaart, previously an EPT Berlin finalist, was just knocked out short of the money.
Van den Bijgaart ended up all in before the flop for 110,000 and he tabled . The Dutchman was up against Gergely Rona who showed and the board ran out 
and Van den Bijgaart was knocked out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Action was on Pavel Meshkov and he moved all in for his last 35,600. Oliver Price, a UK PokerStars player, moved all in behind him and the other players folded to get it heads up. Meshkov showed against the of Price. Meshkov held his breath as the dealer prepared to deal his fate.
The cards fell 
. Meshkov exhaled loudly and pointing to the king on the river said “I saw a queen.” Meshkov doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
73,600 | 30,700 |
|
|
58,800 | -36,600 |
PokerStars EPT London 2013 champion Ruben Visser has left the tournament a couple of spots before hitting the money. He tweeted the following:
You don't need to understand much Dutch to see what had happened. Visser lost his last chips with aces pre flop all in against someone with ace ten.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Dariusz Paszkiewicz shoved from the small blind for just 31,600. Gus Hansen in the big blind, already up a lot for the day it seemed, made the call after some thinking.
The two were of to the races as Paszkiewicz showed 
and Hansen tabled .
Hansen, Paszkiewicz and all other interested parties saw the 
appear in the window. Unfortunately for Hansen and fortunately for Paszkiewicz, the 
and 
accompanied the king. The 
on the turn settled the pot, the on the river couldn't and wouldn't change a thing.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
218,000 | -3,000 |
|
|
66,400 | 14,400 |
The flop was and David Amiryan announced he was all in. Sat next to him Pascal Hartmann declared himself all in too. Miltiadis Kyriakides had them both covered and he joined the party with a third all in.
The cards were turned over and Amiryan had 
for top pair, Hartmann 
for bottom set and Kyriakides showed
The turn card was the 
and the river brought Rohe top set to bust both players.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
454,400 | 193,300 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
