The following big names were spotted at the rail in the early stages, including Team PokerStars Pro's George Danzer and Yaxi Zhu.
The following big names were spotted at the rail in the early stages, including Team PokerStars Pro's George Danzer and Yaxi Zhu.
On the table of Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, a big pot broke out on a three-way flop of ![]()
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. Taichi Yoneya checked from early position and David Lascar bet 6,300. In the cutoff, Marcos Fernandez Martinez raised to 16,800 and Yoneya then moved all in. Lascar folded and Fernandez Martinez called all in for around 35,000.
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The
turn and
river blanked and Fernandez Martinez was sent to the rail.
After winning a WSOP bracelet last summer, defeating Scottish pro Niall Farrell heads-up (and teaming up with him afterwards), Safiya Umerova has set her sights on an EPT-victory as well. Umerova was off to a great start today, chipping up to nearly 200,000 in the early stages, before she clashed with Pavlos Xanthopoulos in a huge pot.
Eduardo De Mello opened to 2,500 from under the gun. Umerova called on the button, and Xanthopoulos defended his big blind. The flop was ![]()
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and Xanthopoulos checked. De Mello checked as well, and Umerova bet 5,200, with Xanthopoulos being the only caller.
The
on the turn brought the fireworks out. Xanthopoulos led out 8,500, Umerova raised to 21,500, Xanthopoulos reraised to 45,000, and Umerova called. Both players already build up the pot to over a 100,000 when the river was dealt.
The river brought the
and Xanthopoulos moved all in for 71,100. Umerova slumped back in her chair, took a sip of her drink and appeared to have a huge hand for the situation. She removed her sunglasses to take a good look at her opponent, but Xanthopoulos was staring stoically in front of him. After thinking for over five minutes, Umerova slowly slid her hand face-down over the line.
"Good bet," the American with Russian roots said. "I was very close to calling." Xanthopoulos said nothing and raked in the big pot.
We saw a blind-on-blind battle on Jake Cody's new table, which features Benny Spindler and Dara O'Kearney among others. A tough table already has got harder after the last hand. Cody limped from the small blind, but Kees van Brugge made it 3,700. Cody called and saw a flop of ![]()
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Both players checked, but on the
turn, Cody bet 8,500. Van Brugge called, and on the river of
, Cody's larger bet of 24,500 also got called. Cody showed ![]()
, a hand known in Britain as 'The Toby' (thanks to '810ofclubs' being Toby Lewis' PokerStars name), but Van Brugge's ![]()
took down the sizeable pot.
Xuan Liu raised from under the gun and Wael Sarkis called from two seats over. On the ![]()
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flop, both players checked and Liu then bet 4,000 on the
turn. Sarkis just called to see the
on the river.
Now, Liu made it 9,500 to go with around 15,000 behind and Sarkis slid forward a stack of T-5,000 chips. Liu gave it some thought and called, then was shown ![]()
by Sarkis and mucked her ![]()
before exiting the tournament area.
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Jenya Gavrilovich bet 14,700 and Kornuth called. The river was the
and Gavrilovich bet quickly, this time for 22,000.
Kornuth weighed up his options, counting out his stack before calling. Gavrilovich checked his cards and elected to muck face down. Kornuth double-checked his cards, and turned over the
, before pushing his cards forward, and pulling the pot towards his stack.
We joined the action on the river, to see an all-in and a call as Ludovic Geilich made the move for the remainder of his chips. He had just over 70,000 chips having improved his Day 2 stack earlier on. The board showed ![]()
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with Geilich's ![]()
no good against Stefan Huber's ![]()
, and while Geilich departs, Huber now has a mammoth stack of 174,100. The Swiss player has doubled his stack since sitting down today and has already enjoyed a deep run here in Barcelona, finishing ninth at the Estrellas High Roller for €31,245.
Liv Boeree and Sarah Herring stepped outside the Casino Barcelona to hit the waves!
The pocket kings of Marcelo Caceres were already in the muck and he headed to the exit while the stack of Ioannis Kontonatsios was counted after a board of ![]()
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. He held ![]()
and turned a set of queens, while Aliaksei Boika's ![]()
, the best hand going into the showdown, were cracked.
Kontonatsios was all in for around 57,000 and doubled through Boika to boost his stack.