Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
2016 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Dublin
€10,300 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Dublin
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€1,794,500
Entries
185
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Palma Due But Doesn't Get There
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Sylvain Loosli raised to 12,500 and Nicholas Palma then three-bet to 38,000 from two seats over before Loosli made it 92,000 to go. Palma jammed for around 240,000 and Loosli snap-called.
"Sorry. I am super due for this," Palma said and flipped over the 
. Loosli was ahead with 
and held up despite a very scary board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
640,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Palumbo Eliminates Vousden
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Pre-flop Rocco Palumbo raised blind on blind and Vousden called. On the flop of 
, Palumbo checked and Vousden bet 18,000. Palumbo raised to 31,000 and Vousden shoved. Palumbo quickly called and showed 
while Vousden had 
. The board ran out 
and Vousden was dead, and eliminated, by the turn
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
410,000
263,000
|
263,000 |
|
Busted |
Celestino Fails to Run It Up
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Ariel Celestino open-jammed for 76,000 and was called by Francois Billard in the small blind.
Billard: 
Celestino: 
Celestino was behind and would stay that way on a 
leaving him with just 3,000 chips behind.
Despite doubling up the immeidate next hand holding 
against ODeen's 
, he got his remaining 15,000 chips against Vladas Tamasauskas' 
, holding 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
83,000
|
83,000 |
|
Busted |
Bustouts Continue; O'Dwyer and Srinivasan Gone
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
There will be no High Roller title this time for Steve O'Dwyer, as he shoved 
from the button into the 
of Arne Coulier in the big blind, and failed to improve.
Similarly Shyam Srinivasan is no longer in the field. He check-raised a flop of 
and Dominik Nitsche moved all-in. Srinivasan called and tabled 
, but Nitsche had outs to win holding 
. The turn was the 
and the on the river was a formality.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
540,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
320,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Kings for Coulier
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Luuk Gieles moved all in for 50,000 with the and Francois Billard called out of the small blind with the . The board ran out 
and Gieles sat back down and put on his sunglasses. "Still alive, I can do this," the Dutchman said.
Over on the other table, Dominik Nitsche raised to 13,000 for the second hand in a row and again Arne Coulier called from two seats over. The Belgian had given up the first hand after the pot, now he stuck around on the 
flop by check-calling a bet of 15,000. Both checked the 
turn and Nitsche then bet the river for what looked like 40,000.
Coulier quickly called and turned over as winning hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
440,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
|
|
400,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
145,000
-25,000
|
-25,000 |
|
115,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
Bustout Galore With Lewis, Gieles and Lichtenberger Gone
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
At the same time, three players busted on three different tables to reduce the field to 29 participants.
Ryan Riess had Andrew Lichtenberger at risk for what looked like 100,000 chips with the versus . The flop was kind of an overkill and the turn and river didn't matter much anymore.
Then Romain Lewis lost his last chips in a similar flip with against the of Sam Chartier. The board ran out 
.
Last but not least, Luuk Gieles three-bet all in for 115,000 out of the big blind. Initial raiser Jason Mercier tank-called after having opened to 12,500.
Gieles:
Mercier:
The roller coaster board 
reduced the field from 32 to 29 in a matter of one minute.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
430,000
221,000
|
221,000 |
|
||
|
350,000 | |
|
||
|
290,000
124,000
|
124,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
|
||
Neuville Departs; Hand For Hand Mode
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
"What am I doing with 29 left?" Pierre Neuville said after having just been eliminated two spots off the money. The Belgian had three-bet jammed out of the big blind for what looked like 120,000. Initial raiser William Arruda called and it was a big flip once again.
Neuville: 
Arruda:
The flop gave Arruda the nut straight and it was all over after the turn, making the 
river a formality. Only 28 players remain with the top 27 spots getting paid, the tables will now continue in hand for hand mode.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
760,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
Busted |
Ghassan Doubles on the Bubble
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
The first all in and call on the bubble of the High Roller was between Ibrahim Ghassan and Jason Mercier.
Ghassan held and had three-bet Jason Mercier's open of 12,000, with the Team PokerStars Pro holding 
The board ran out 
and Ghassan doubled to around 75,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
|
|
||
|
75,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
Bleiker Doubles Through Coulier
Level 16
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Arne Coulier, who has won his seat for the event through a Live Satellite and picked up some chips from Dominik Nitsche recently, just made a mode that backfired heavily. Coulier opened, Felix Bleiker missclicked and min-three-bet before the Belgian four-bet shoved. Bleiker called for 257,500 and was put at risk on the bubble.
Bleiker: 
Coulier:
On the flop, Coulier was demanding the whereas Bleiker smiled over with an "I take the ace." Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Coulier was cut down considerably.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
530,000
330,000
|
330,000 |
|
|
145,000
-255,000
|
-255,000 |