€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 4 | 2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT

05-03-2019 13:40 UTC+2

Loeser Jams Into Michaelis

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Paul Michaelis is one of the two remaining former EPT champions with 25 hopefuls remaining and the German has a mountain to climb after folding to a shove from fellow countryman Manig Loeser. Michaelis had opened first to act and Loeser called in the cutoff.

A continuation bet and call on the flop was followed up by a bet of 160,000 by Michaelis on the turn. Loeser used one time bank extension and moved all in, which forced a near instant fold from Michaelis.

Player	Chips	Progress
Manig Loeser	1,750,000	250,000
Paul Michaelis	475,000	-475,000

Tags: Manig Loeser Paul Michaelis

05-03-2019 13:39 UTC+2

Riess Doubles Through Chouity

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Once again the action folded to Nicolas Chouity in the small blind and once again he set short-stack Ryan Riess all in. Last time Riess folded but this orbit he made a call and was the slight favorite when they turned their cards over.

Ryan Riess:
Nicolas Chouity:

The board read and Chouity counted out 130,000 chips to hand over to his neighbour.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Chouity	2,210,000	-30,000
Ryan Riess	280,000	100,000

Tags: Nicolas Chouity Ryan Riess

05-03-2019 13:37 UTC+2

Another Double for Wei

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Melika Razavi raised to 50,000 on the button, Wei Huang shoved all in for 190,000 from the big blind and Razavi immediately called.

Wei Huang:
Melika Razavi:

Huang stuck around a little longer after the board came down .

Player	Chips	Progress
Melika Razavi	3,000,000	50,000
James Romero	800,000	-250,000
Wei Huang	410,000	130,000

Tags: Melika Razavi Wei Huang

05-03-2019 13:35 UTC+2

Ambrose Travers Keeps The Poker Party Going

Valerie.Cross

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Three months ago Ambrose Travers was in the Bahamas. He and a group of friends were there to cheer on Darren Millar as the latter lived out his Platinum Pass dream in the PSPC. It was such a good time that nobody wanted the party to end.

Now Travers is playing on Day 4 of the EPT Monte Carlo event, where he is one of just 30 players remaining. It’s something of a sequel to the PSPC festivities: while Travers battles with Sam Greenwood and Nicolas Chouity on the TV table, Millar and some of the same friends that cheered him on are here rooting for Travers.

“They’re the best friends in the world, they are,” he told PokerStars Blog this afternoon. “Darren did so well in the Bahamas, we couldn’t wait to get back home to get to the next tournament. PokerStars ran such a marvelous party there, we says, ‘What’s the next big event?’ The next big event was this one.”

So he jumped into a €5.50 satellite. Six hours later, after winning that first satellite and then the €55 and €530 qualifiers that it fed into, he’d earned himself a package to play in Monte Carlo.

Read the full article by Jason Kirk on the PokerStars Blog.

Tags: Ambrose Travers

05-03-2019 13:30 UTC+2

Greenwood Builds After Out-flopping Kvilhaug

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Evy Kvilhaug opened to 40,000 in early position with and only Sam Greenwood got involved, calling with from the big blind.

The flop gave Greenwood bottom pair and he check-called the 50,000 continuation bet. The on the turn gave Kvilhaug second pair top kicker but it also saw Greenwood improve to top pair and after he checked, she checked it back.

The river was the and Greenwood bet 160,000 into the 210,000 pot and Kvilhaug made the call. She showed the queen after Greenwood opened the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Evy Kvilhaug	1,430,000	-460,000
Sam Greenwood	850,000	250,000

Tags: Evy Kvilhaug Sam Greenwood

05-03-2019 13:28 UTC+2

Castaignon Eliminated after Back-to-Back Clashes With Vogelsang

Christian Zetzsche

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Christoph Vogelsang chopped with Luis Media and the next hand he got it in preflop for his last 475,000 against Remi Castaignon in a battle cutoff versus button.

Christoph Vogelsang:
Remi Castaignon:

The board improved Vogelsang on the turn and Castaignon was left with just 150,000.

One hand later, Vogelsang opened to 45,000 and Castaignon moved all in from the cutoff. Nicola Grieco in the small blind let his shot clock run down to two seconds and folded, as did Timothy Adams in the big blind. Vogelsang called and was the one with the pocket pair this time.

Remi Castaignon:
Christoph Vogelsang:

The board came and the eights held up this time around to eliminate Castaignon in 26th place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christoph Vogelsang	1,250,000	650,000
Remi Castaignon	Busted

Tags: Christoph Vogelsang Nicola Grieco Remi Castaignon Timothy Adams

05-03-2019 13:19 UTC+2

Riess Very Low

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Ryan Riess has been moved to the feature table. The Main Event Champion still has under 10 big blinds, despite getting a steal through in the last hand with and has some spinning up to do.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Riess	180,000	-50,000

Tags: Ryan Riess

05-03-2019 13:19 UTC+2

Odor Punishing the Limpers

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Jorden Verbraeken limped in from middle position and James Romero limped along from the cutoff. Karoly Odor slid his stack of 300,000 in from the small blind and everyone else folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Karoly Odor	380,000	110,000

Tags: Karoly Odor

05-03-2019 13:15 UTC+2

Greenwood Wins a Little Back

LisaY

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Sam Greenwood has just won a 200,000 chip pot with after defending his big blind versus Nicolas Chouity's button open with .

By the river, was down and with trips, Greenwood went for max value betting pot for 200,000. He took it down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Chouity	2,240,000	-40,000
Sam Greenwood	600,000	50,000

Tags: Sam Greenwood Nicolas Chouity

05-03-2019 13:09 UTC+2

Malinowski and Michaelis Clash

Christian Zetzsche

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Wiktor Malinowski made it 40,000 to go on the button and Paul Michaelis three-bet to 150,000 in the small blind, Malinowski stuck around and they headed to a flop. Both players checked and Michaelis made it 135,000 to go, which Malinowski called after using one time bank extension.