Davide Marchi, Maria Lampropulos, Romain Lewis and Stefan Huber have all recently departed the tournament area. Mustapha Kanit also lost his stack but has since reentered.
Davide Marchi, Maria Lampropulos, Romain Lewis and Stefan Huber have all recently departed the tournament area. Mustapha Kanit also lost his stack but has since reentered.
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turn Andrei Konopelko checked to Mikalai Vaskaboinikau who bet 7,000. Konopelko check-raised all in for 31,000 and Vaskaboinikau snap-called.
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Konopelko was drawing dead, and the river was the
. Vaskaboinikau was found to have just 30,000 so Konopelko was left with 1,000.
Konopelko was all in from the big blind on the very next hand. Vaskaboinikau raised to 2,000 and the play folded round to Konopelko.
Vaskaboinikau turned over ![]()
and Konopelko laughed heartily showing ![]()
, with the pair conversing in Russian.
The conversation intensified on the ![]()
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flop with Konopelko picking up a straight draw. He picked up extra outs on the
turn, but the river
gave Vaskaboinikau a set and Konopelko was eliminated.
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, and Jeff Gross checked from under the gun to Ben Jones in the next seat who bet 6,200. Xia Lin was the third player in the pot and moved all in for 45,000 from the cutoff.
Gross contemplated his decision for 30 seconds before he folded his hand, and Jones made the call after around 20 seconds of thought.
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Lin was in complete control of the pot with top pair and the nut flush draw. The turn
and river
were of no use to Jones and Lin secured a full double from the Brit.
Murad Akhundov raised and Antoine Saout three-bet all in. Akhundov called.
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Saout was eliminated.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Players are going on their 75-minute dinner break.
The tournament clock shows 270 of 358 players remaining.
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, and Juan Pardo Domínguez was able to get his stack into the middle against an opponent who had called his all in.
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Pardo Domínguez was ahead with his overpair to the board and improved to a set on the river when the
reeled off.
The Spaniard will be looking for much better luck today after he busted on the money bubble of the €50,300 Single-Day High Roller yesterday when his pocket aces were cracked by ace-eight.
Sergio Garcia was down to 10,000 but mounted a comeback to 47,000 within a level. But the professional golfer has now been eliminated and he recounted the story to us.
According to him, one player raised to 1,500 from early position and got one call before Garcia defended his big blind.
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with one heart and Garcia check-called 2,500 from his opponent, with the other player in the hand folding. The turn was the
. Garcia checked and his opponent bet 6,200. Garcia moved all in and after a long tank his opponent called with ![]()
for a flush draw.
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but there was a heart on the river and he was down to around ten big blinds.
He eventually got his remaining chips in with ![]()
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of his opponent. There was an ace on the board, but nothing else, and Garcia was eliminated from the High Roller.
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, and the action had been checked by two players to Saar Wilf on the button who then bet 10,000. Maria Lampropulos called in the small blind and the player in the big blind folded.
Lampropulos checked on the
river, and Wilf bet 20,000.
With the decision back on the Argentine, she thought for 30 seconds before using a time bank card. She then used a second card as while mulling over her decision, but as the 90-second mark approached she made the call.
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for a full house and Lampropulos mucked, which allowed Wilf to move up to 110,000.