Marti Aguilar squeezed to 1,800 and then called the shove of Ibrahim Al Bishri for little more, 4,025 in total to be exact. Aguilar turned over and Al Bishri only the to see the board run out .
The dealer was about to ship the pot to Aguilar with his set before then realizing that Al Bishri had made a straight on the river. Aguilar took a small hit to his stack, but has done nicely thus far.
Joining the action with a squeeze to 1,300 by Dan Shak, Felix Lambertz reraised to 4,525 and the American then made it 15,000 to go. "How much are you playing?" the German asked and Shak replied with "around 34,000" to then call off the shove of Lambertz:
Shak:
Lambertz:
The board ran out and Shak left the tournament area rather quickly, grabbing his laptop, his iPad and a couple phones as well as the other random belongings.
The EPT Grand Final Main Event is now up to 234 players, with registration open until midnight tonight for Day 1a. Late registration remains open all day tomorrow as well, and it closes before the start of Day 2.
On the flop, Dietrich Fast bet 600 from the hijack and the player on the button called to see the turn. Fast checked, his opponent bet 850 and the German called. Fast did so again on the river for 3,000 and was shown by his opponent, a bluff gone wrong. The German claimed the pot with but remains below starting stack.
Fabio Sperling has a slightly more difficult table with Haralabos Voulgaris, Isaac Haxton and Anthony Zinno. Sperling bet the river for 2,000 and was called by Jerome Arnould, who then mucked when Sperling flashed .
Next to the feature table where the €100,000 Super High Roller Final Table currently takes place, Dinesh Alt just bet a flop of for 1,200 and EPT12 Dublin 4th place finisher Patrick Clarke shoved for his last 7,450 chips. Alt gave it some thought and then called to turn over .
Clarke had the for a flopped flush and held up thanks to the turn and river. Another familiar player is in seat nine, no other than the first and thus far only two-time EPT champion Vicky Coren!
Two-time EPT runner-up Pierre Neuville has just been spotted at Dan Smith's table, as he's once again on a quest to take down one of Europe's biggest events.
Neuville burst onto the scene with a runner-up finish at EPT Vilamoura in Season 6, when Antonio Matias took the event down, and two seasons later the Belgian finished second to Team PokerStars Online Mickey Petersen in Copenhagen.
On top of that, Neuville has a runner-up finish at the World Series of Poker in the $5,000 6-max, and a seventh place finish in last year's WSOP Main Event for $1.2 million.
In total Neuville has $3.4 million in live tournament earnings, putting him second on the Belgian all-time money list.
Anthony Spinella just raked in a big pot, and Vlad Lache was kind enough to bring us up to speed with the action as Spinella's opponent was deep into the tank on the river.
Lache explained how Spinella raised to 450 and after one player called it was Bahram Chobineh who three-bet to 1,350 from the small blind. Both Spinella and the third player involved called, putting on the flop.
Chobineh bet 2,000 on the flop and only Spinella called.
The turn was the and Spinella called another 4,000. On the river the board completed with the and Chobineh bet 6,500.
Spinella raised it up to 19,000 and Chobineh thought for a long time before calling, and revealing for a flopped set. Spinella showed for a flopped straight, and he took down this big pot.
Spinella now sits on around 60,000 chips, while Chobineh was left with 10,000.
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and Shak left the tournament area rather quickly, grabbing his laptop, his iPad and a couple phones as well as the other random belongings.
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river for 2,000 and was called by Jerome Arnould, who then mucked when Sperling flashed 
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for 1,200 and EPT12 Dublin 4th place finisher Patrick Clarke shoved for his last 7,450 chips. Alt gave it some thought and then called to turn over 
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for a flopped set. Spinella showed 