Timothy Adams made it 80,000 to go first to act and found one caller in Ahadpur Khangah in the cutoff. Although there was no action on the flop, that changed on the turn as Adams bet 125,000 and Khangah called. On the river, Adams made it 250,000 to go and Khangah folded.
The €550 EPT Cup at the PokerStars European Poker Tour in Barcelona has come to an end with Dariusz Paszkiewicz as the winner. In the EPT Cup, the Pole made a three-way deal with Mickael Vongsonthi and [Removed:388], where he walked away with €157,550 and Vongsonthi and Benzerfa with €147,500 each.
Besides the bragging rights of winning the title, the $30,000 Platinum Pass was still up for grabs for the winner of the EPT Cup, and Paszkiewicz emerged victorious after ousting Vongsonthi heads-up. To make things even worse for Vongsonthi, he also lost the Crazy Pineapple Flipout earlier today heads-up to Rolando Camardese! Although winning €147,500 surely must have compensated for any negative feelings, losing out on the Platinum Pass heads-up both times had to be rough for the Frenchman.
The EPT Cup is always one of the most popular tournaments at the EPT and the 2018 edition in Barcelona was no different. A grand total of 3,287 signed up and took their seats on one of the three starting flights of this two-day tournament. 485 of them would finish in the money with the mincash worth €865, but a three-way bustout between Rocco Palumbo, Felipe Bozzetti Pasqual and Osvaldo Lewis split the last-place prize money three-way.
Notables that cashed included Peter Kamaras (6th - €39,830), Remi Castaignon (12th - €12,400), Antonina Anapolska (26th - €6,240), Erwann Pecheux (46th - €3,910), Julien Sitbon (65th - €3,280), and Dominik Panka (114th - €2,475). Rolando Camardese, who won the Platinum Pass at the start of the day, finished in 116th place (€2,475).
Matthias Eibinger raised to 85,000 on the button and short stack Benjamin Pollak called to see a flop of . Pollak checked, Eibinger bet 55,000 and that ended the hand right there.
One hand later, Pollak jammed for 300,000 in the small blind and Byron Kaverman in the big blind gave it some thought before releasing his cards into the muck.
Ahadpur Khangah limped in from the cutoff and Rui Neves Ferreira from one seat over on the button raised to 125,000, Khangah called. On the flop, Khangah checked and called a bet of 75,000 by the Portuguese.
The turn was checked through and Khangah checked the river as well. Neves Ferreira bet 500,000 with far less than that behind, and that won the pot without showdown as Khangah elected to muck.
Mikita Badziakouski raised to 100,000 and all opponents folded, he flashed the .
Then, Badziakouski raised to 100,000 once more and Matthias Eibinger called from the big blind. They checked it down on a board of and Eibinger announced he played the board, Badziakouski showed and that won the pot.
It was blind on blind between Byron Kaverman and Ahadpur Khangah. The pair checked the flop.
The turn was the and Kaverman check-called 145,000. The river was the and Kaverman checked. Khangah bet 250,000 and Kaverman used up all of his time bank before folding.
Byron Kaverman made it 80,000 to go first to act and Timothy Adams called in the cutoff, short stack Benjamin Pollak forfeited his big blind and ante. The flop came and Kaverman checked over to Adams, who bet 75,000 and won the pot.
In the next hand Cary Katz raised to 100,000 and collected the blinds and ante, as a result Pollak dropped to eight big blinds.