Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
When walking back into the tournament area just after the break was over, Ismael Bojang was spotted at one of the tables right at the entrance and that section didn't belong to the Main Event. Tudor Purice busted the German just before the end of the previous level in a flip with pocket jacks. Bojang had gotten his 86,000 chips in with ![]()
and failed to improve.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Ben Heath made it 10,000 to go and Dzmitry Urbanovich slid in a stack of blue 5,000-denomination chips right behind him, enough to cover Heath's stack.
It folded back to Heath and he thought it over for a minute before making the call for his tournament life with the ![]()
. Urbanovich had two overs with the ![]()
and won the flip on a ![]()
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board to send Heath home and push up the leader board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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270,000
125,000
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125,000 |
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Busted | |
Christopher Kruk raised to 9,000 from under the gun and Stephen Malone three-bet to 22,500 from the button with Kruk making the call. On the ![]()
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flop, Kruk check-called a bet of 18,000 and the duo then checked the
turn. Kruk fired the
river for 33,000 and Malone released his cards.
The stacks of other notables on the very same table can be found below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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405,000
125,200
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125,200 |
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340,000
36,600
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36,600 |
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265,000
107,400
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107,400 |
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125,000
105,000
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105,000 |
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100,000
40,300
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40,300 |
In a battle of the blinds, Sven Magirius limped in and Andrew Chen checked before the German check-called 5,000 on the ![]()
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flop and 10,000 on the
turn before check-folding the
river to a shove worth 51,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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90,000
10,300
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10,300 |
Timothy Adams opened to 9,500 and Kuljinder Sidhu then jammed for 116,500 with Adams going into the think tank for quite some time. The Canadian eventually called with the ![]()
and Sidhu was flipping with ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Sidhu won the flip whereas David Lappin busted at almost the same time on the feature table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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240,000
22,000
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22,000 |
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80,000
74,200
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74,200 |
James Akenhead opened to 9,000 and short stack Chris Moorman folded from one seat over, then Orpen Kisacikoglu three-bet to 21,500.
Edouard Mignot then shoved for the second time in the past 10 minutes and this time the Frenchman was looked up as Kisacikoglu tank-called with the ![]()
. Mignot was in the lead with his ![]()
, but the board came ![]()
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to give Kisacikoglu a full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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405,000
90,000
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90,000 |
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225,000
74,200
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74,200 |
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45,000
7,000
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7,000 |
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Busted |
From middle position, Florian Decamps raised to 8,500 only to be three-bet to 20,500 by Mazin Khoury on the button. The small blind folded but Andrew Abernethy in the big blind shoved all in for 64,000. Decamps folded, Khoury instantly called.
Mazin Khoury: ![]()
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Andrew Abernethy: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and with the king on the turn, Abernethy doubled up.
Abernethy, talking to his neighbor Kees van Brugge, said he was usually so unlucky. As far as we can tell, he has nothing to complain about right now. Khoury on the other hand, has reason to, as he's down to just around 60,000.
Not much later, Decamps busted. From the cutoff, he pushed his last 14 big blinds in holding ![]()
, and was called by the button that had ![]()
. Decamps didn't hit, and made his exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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142,500
52,500
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52,500 |
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60,000
108,700
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108,700 |
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Busted |
Vebjorn Monstad limped the button and after the small blind folded, Steve O'Dwyer shoved the big blind for 55,000.
Monstad got a count and made the call with the ![]()
, ahead of O'Dwyer's ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and O'Dwyer hit the rail, because trip tens with an ace-kicker beats king high, even if you're the EPT's all-time leading money winner.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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170,000
105,000
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105,000 |
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Busted | |
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On a flop of ![]()
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Frank Williams bet out 9,000 and was called by La Boissonnire. The
looked inconsequential, but Williams barrelled for a further 26,000. La Boissonnire again called. The river was the
and Williams fired a third time, for 29,000 which finally got his opponent to fold.
Both players however are well up on the number of chips they started the day with as players approach the money bubble here on day 3
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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335,000
137,300
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137,300 |
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280,000
142,600
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142,600 |