Former EPT London winner Ruben Visser has just been knocked out. We caught the end of the hand, and later Visser told us how he open-shoved for 36,000 from middle position, and the player on his left called.
Govert Metaal raised to 2,500 from the cutoff and Romain Paon called from the button after which Nacho Barbero called from the big blind.
The flop came down and the action was checked to Paon who bet 4,000 and only Barbero made the call.
On the turn the hit and both players checked. The river was the and Barbero checked to Paon who bet 9,000, and Barbero called. Paon showed and he took down the pot with two pair.
Dario Sammartino raised to 5,400 from middle position, and then Milan Tomasz Rabsz reraised all in for 26,600. Sammartino called and it was his against Rabsz's .
The flop, turn, and river ran out to give Sammartino a flush and bust Rabsz from the tournament.
Jason Les opened to 6,000 under the gun and he got called by Florian-Dimitrie Duta and the player in the big blind.
The flop came and the big blind checked. Les checked as well and Duta made a bet of 5,500. The big blind folded, Les called. The on the turn made a double paired board and Les check called a bet of 14,000. The river had both players check and Les turned over . Duta rolled over and the two of them chopped it up.
On the flop, Boris Yanpolskiy checked, Sergi Escote checked, and then Jason Mo bet 8,900. Yanpolskiy folded, but Escote called.
The turn was the , and Escote checked. Mo fired 18,900, and Escote check-raised all in for just under 60,000. Mo quickly called and showed the . Escote showed the and was drawing dead.
The river completed the board with the , and Mo won the pot.
Canadian Jason Lavallee is a world class troll on Twitter from time to time, and just now he even managed to trick the PokerNews crew. Lavallee Tweeted about the following hand, and we assumed he had hit the rail.
Four minutes after sending out this Tweet, Lavallee provided a 140-character napkin for the tears of his followers by sending out the rest of the hand.
Lavallee laughed upon discovering we fell for it as well when we spotted him still sitting in the tournament with 223,000 chips. The winner of the EPT London high roller explained what happened in the hands that he won, as he's currently doing quite well near the end of Day 2.
The player in the hijack raised to 4,500 and Lavallee three-bet from the cutoff to 11,000 and the action folded back to the initial raiser. Lavallee got four-bet to 23,000 and he responded by moving all in for 79,000. Lavallee got called by ace-queen and his queens, as described in the Tweets above, held up.
A little while later a player raised under the gun to 4,500 and Lavallee three-bet to 11,000 from the button. Lavallee opponent shoved for 60,000 with , and he hit the rail after losing to .