After a raise to 1,200 and a call, Bruno Lopes three-bet to 5,100 from the small blind and only the initial raiser called. The flop brought out 
and Lopes bet 6,000, which was called by his opponent.
The turn brought the 
and Lopes bet 4,500, and to this bet his opponent quickly folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 | 30,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
"I trapped him!" Daniel Negreanu just said with a big smile, as we ran into him leaving the tournament room.
The quote suggested a good result, but the truth was far from that as Negreanu busting the EPT Grand Final in record speed after entering the tournament after the dinner break.
Negreanu told us what happened in the hand that went as following.
Negreanu raised under the gun holding ace-king to 1,175 and the man he just told to speed things up - Markku Koplimaa - three-bet to 3,450 from the small blind. Negreanu made the call, and the flop brought out 
with two spades.
Koplimaa bet 3,600 on the flop and Negreanu called, and a 
hit on the turn. Negreanu called another 7,000 chips and the board completed on the river with a 
, and Koplimaa put Negreanu all in.
"I called for 17,000, and he had six-eight of diamonds," Negreanu cackled.
Negreanu was knocked out by the straight of his opponent, and Koplimaa now sits on 200,000.
Out in record time! I raise AK, small blind 3 bet. Flop K95 turn 7 river J. He got me with 68 lol! #EPTGrandFinalFollow @RealKidPoker
Best part, kid says "I didn't want to bust you" and someone goes "so you 3 bet him with 68?" Haha :-)Follow @RealKidPoker
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | 32,000 |
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Busted |
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Tekken wiz and Team PokerStars Online Pro Randy "nanonoko" Lew has risen from shorty to contender post-dinner.
His latest climb up the ladder came when he three-bet the small blind to 4,100 facing a 1,200 early position open. The original raiser folded and Lew climbed over 90,000 for the first time today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
91,000 | 46,000 |
High Roller killer Chance Kornuth has found his footing here in the Grand Final, having pushed above 70,000.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree has not fared as well, still hovering around the starting-stack mark. However, that did not prevent her from defending her big blind after Kornuth opened to 1,250.
The two saw a 
flop heads-up, and after Boeree checked, Kornuth bet 1,100. Boeree called and checked again on the 
turn. Kornuth checked behind, and after the 
river, Boeree took the lead for the first time, firing out 2,300. Kornuth folded and Boeree took a little bite out of his growing stack to move up to 32,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000 | 43,000 |
|
32,000 | -4,000 |
Fresh off a runner-up finish in the €250+20 End of Month Event at the 2016 Fitzwilliam Card Club back in Dublin, Irishman Andy Black, who famously finished fifth in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event, is taking a kick at the EPT Grand Final can here today.
He's nursing a little above a starting stack like a veteran pro as well, having just fired in a 1,200-chip bet from under the gun that got called by both blinds. They all carefully checked the 
flop, but after the blinds tapped the table on the 
turn, Black fired again, making it 2,000.
The blinds folded and Black inched a little more above starting.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 | 23,000 |
After a rant about how the Toronto Raptors will get crushed tonight versus the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the first round of the NBA playoffs, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu shifted his focus to the poker action.
Negreanu folded the first hand of his EPT Grand Final - the tournament he almost won in 2013, finishing fourth for €321,000 - and another player raised to 1,100. After a third player made the call, the action was on Markku Koplimaa.
Koplimaa tanked quite some time before Negreanu chimed in.
"What are you thinking about?" Negreanu said, "You for sure know what you're going to do at this point."
"Tick-tock, the clock don't stop!" Negreanu added, before Koplimaa finally three-bet.
Both Koplimaa's opponent quickly folded, and the Estonian added some more to his big stack.
Seemingly unfazed Koplimaa said with a smile, "I like playing with you, you're funny."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
168,000 | 168,000 |
|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Lebanon's Albert Daher continues to lead following the dinner break, now cresting the 200,000-chip mark and pounding away at his table with value bet after value bet.
The latest came when he bet 11,000 on the river of a 
board. His heads-up opponent paid off and Daher showed him the goods, having turned the 
into a straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
212,000 | 72,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
With six levels done the 75-minute dinner break starts now. Play will resume at approximately 9:30 p.m. with two more levels of play scheduled.
