Robert Kaggerud saw a pre-flop raise from Luiz Orrico on the button and got his stack of 15,400 into the middle from the big blind. Orrico weighed it up with serious consideration, but eventually tossed in the requisite chips and showed ![]()
. He was way ahead of Kaggerud's ![]()
and stayed there through the ![]()
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board. Orrico has now built an impressive stack and sits on double the average.
2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, who holds the record for most cashes at the European Poker Tour, just busted a short stack to chip up. His ![]()
held up against Ukraine's Dmytro Shuvanov's ![]()
when the board didn't ran higher than an eight.
Among the next big names to join the rail were Paul Hoefer, who won a bracelet at the 2015 World Series of Poker and a ring at the Aussie Millions this year, the High Roller regulars Ben Heath and Anthony Zinno, as well as 2015 Master Classics of Poker champion Jussi Nevanlinna.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Short stack Patrick Sacrispeyre, who had lost half his stack coming into Day 2, got it in for 12,400 from the cutoff and Michael Sklenicka looked him up out of the small blind with ![]()
. Sacrispeyre had the ![]()
and doubled thanks to a board of ![]()
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"Nothing I can do," Sklenicka added after the hand was over and shrugged.
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, Georgios Zisimopoulos had a bet of 3,500 out in front of him. Dorian Rios, directly to his left, made it 12,000. 'Zisimo' decided to let it go after a minute.
In the next hand, Zisimopoulos opened again, this time to 2,300. Once again, Rios came along with the call. Alexandros Kolonias, 4th in the €50,000 Super High Roller earlier this week (€467,700), three-bet to 8,000 from the binds. Zisimopoulos folded, but Rios called the extra chips right away.
Both players checked the ![]()
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flop. Kolonias bet 7,000 on the
turn, and Rios folded. With a lot of action players, it should be an interesting table to follow throughout the day.
Shaun Deeb started the day as one of the big stacks, but busted rather early and took to his misery on Twitter. Other casualties include Michael Tureniec, Polish prodigy Dzmitry Urbanovich and EPt12 Grand Final runner up Adrian Allain.
Mickael Cano was all-in and at risk pre-flop with ![]()
. He looked in great shape to double his short stack against his only opponent in the hand, Andrey Shatilov, who held ![]()
.
The flop of ![]()
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put Shatilov into the lead, however, and after the
turn and
river, Cano was out of EPT Barcelona on Day 2. Shatilov is up to 44,600, but that's still some way behind the average of just under 60,000.
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Paul Hoefer raised to 2,000 and Julian Stuer three-bet to 4,900. Hoefer then four-bet to 21,200, leaving himself only around 3,000 in chips. However, Stuer called, thinking that Hoefer was all in, and tabled his hand: ![]()
. The floor was called over and the dealer recounted the action to the pair of them.
The dealer said that the pair were going to see a flop, but Stuer couldn't do any more aggressive actions. As this was being explained, Hoefer flashed the
to his fellow German and the pair exchanged a chuckle.
The flop was dealt ![]()
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and Hoefer exclaimed "Oh that's good for me!" and moved his remaining chips all in. Stuer called. Hoefer tabled ![]()
.
The board ran out ![]()
and Hoefer shook Stuer's hand as he headed to the exit.
