The Last 6 Hands
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
The tournament director just announced there will be 6 more hands to be played. Check back soon for end of day chip counts and a recap of todays action.
2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,157,350
Entries
651
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Silver Fails to Survive Day 3
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Up at the feature table, Max Silver, who has been nursing a short stack for quite some time, open-shoved under the gun for 57,000 and Nabil Mohamed Abdien Cardoso called from the button. The blinds both folded and Silver discovered the bad news.
Silver: 
Cardoso: 
Silver had major kicker issues, and suddenly found himself drawing to either running sevens or wheel cards to stay alive after the 
flop paired Cardoso. The 
turn took away any chance of that happening, and Silver began to collect his things as the 
was put out on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
279,000 | 58,000 |
|
Busted |
Faraz Jaka Slays Another With a Bad Beat
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Faraz Jaka opened the button to 17,000 and Kitty Kuo in the small blind three bet to 47,000 with about 500,000 behind. Big blind Ludovic Riehl cold four bet to 100,000 with 250,000 behind and action was back on Jaka. He announced all in and Kuo folded. Riehl checked his cards just to be sure, and instantly called.
Faraz Jaka: 
Ludovic Riehl: 
Kuo said she folded pocket sevens and Jaka, while in trouble in a monster pot, didn't seem fazed at all. He sat silently relaxed in his chair, even when the flop was full of blanks: 
.
The 
on the turn was anything but a blank though, and the 
on the river followed soon after and couldn't make things right anymore for Riehl. The Frenchman helped the dealer sliding his chips to Jaka, and left the tournament.
Jaka, after cracking kings in back to back hands, now one of the chip leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,212,000 | 337,000 |
|
Busted |
Jaguscik's Kings and Heart Broken
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Adam Jaguscik raised from under the gun and Kitty Kuo three-bet to 43,000 from one seat over before the action reached Faraz Jaka in the big blind. He squeezed to 118,000 and Jaguscik moved all in for what looked like 230,000. Kuo folded but Jaka called and needed one of the three remaining aces in the deck.
Jaka: 
Jaguscik: 
The 
flop provides no back door outs, only a chop is possible on the 
turn anymore. The dealer then burns and turns the 
on the river and that sends Jaguscik to the rail, sick as a dog.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
875,000 | 475,000 |
|
Busted |
Dvoress Doubles Turtiainen
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Mikko Turtiainen (cutoff) and Daniel Dvoress (hijack) got their chips in before the flop. Dvoress had 
while his neighbor Turtiainen had . The board ran out 
and Turtiainen doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
425,000 | -46,000 |
|
251,000 | 120,000 |
EPT12 Malta Main Event Player Nationalities
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
The EPT12 Malta Main Event players hail from 57 countries. Italy had the strongest representation (65 players; 10%) followed by the USA (56; 9%), the UK (53; 8%) and France (52; 8%). Check out this chart released by PokerStars:
Only a Small Dent into Ivarsson's Stack
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Alexander Ivarsson is pretty much playing every hand on his table and clearly dominates the action, though the last one didn't go to his direction. Ivarsson raised to 16,00 from the button and Daniel Dvoress called in the big blind. The Canadian check-called a continuation bet worth 16,000 on the flop 
and then both players checked through the 
turn and the river. Dvoress was first to show and his 
won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,380,000 | 320,000 |
To Show or not to Show
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Hani Bahna opened from under the gun and Akim Aouine called in the big blind to see the flop . Aouine checked, Bahna continued for 25,000 and then Aouine squeezed to 100,000. Bahna started some small talk and eventually Aouine agreed to show his cards when Bahna would do so upon folding. Bahna mucked and Aouine then said "because you my friend", flipping over 
for two pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
308,000 | 144,000 |
|
85,000 | -125,000 |
It's All About That Green
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Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Sam Greenwood has crested the one-million mark here in the last half of the last level of the day.
He just relieved Pawel Brzeski of all his 230,000 in chips when Brzeski got it in with 
versus Gereenwood's follwing a bunch of fireworks preflop.
The board ran out , leaving Brzeski without chips or a chair and sending Greenwood up to 1.2 million
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,200,000 | 300,000 |
|
Busted |
McDonald Doubles Barbour
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Natasha Barbour open pushed under the gun and action folded to Mike McDonald in the big blind. He thought about it for a bit, before eventually folding. He claimed he had 
but the 88,000 push was too much for him to call.
The next hand action folded to him in the small blind. He pushed all in, effectively raising to 107,000 as that's what Barbour had after the hand.
"Oh a sweat, a sweat!" she said with a smile. She looked at her cards one by one and said "Oh yeah!" as soon as she was done. She called directly after checking her second card.
Natasha Barbour:
Mike McDonald: 
The board ran out 
and Barbour doubled.
"Little bit of life" Barbour said. "Now it's your turn [to double me up]" she continued, now focusing on het neighbor Niall Farrell.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
669,000 | -71,000 |
|
221,000 | 114,000 |