The Last 6 Hands
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.
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.
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 |
---|---|---|
Nabil Cardoso |
279,000
58,000
|
58,000 |
Max Silver | Busted |
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 |
---|---|---|
Faraz Jaka |
1,212,000
337,000
|
337,000 |
|
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Ludovic Riehl | Busted |
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 |
---|---|---|
Faraz Jaka |
875,000
475,000
|
475,000 |
|
||
Adam Jaguscik | Busted |
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 |
---|---|---|
Daniel Dvoress |
425,000
-46,000
|
-46,000 |
|
||
Mikko Turtiainen |
251,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
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:
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 |
---|---|---|
Alexander Ivarsson |
1,380,000
320,000
|
320,000 |
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 |
---|---|---|
Akim Aouine |
308,000
144,000
|
144,000 |
Hani Bahna |
85,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
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 |
---|---|---|
Sam Greenwood |
1,200,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
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Pawel Brzeski | Busted |
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 |
---|---|---|
Mike McDonald |
669,000
-71,000
|
-71,000 |
|
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Natasha Barbour |
221,000
114,000
|
114,000 |