Carl Loefstedt pushed his shorter stack of fewer than 15 big blinds into Lukas Hnizdo and picked up a quick call.
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board provided no help to the Swede and he headed to the payout desk.
Carl Loefstedt pushed his shorter stack of fewer than 15 big blinds into Lukas Hnizdo and picked up a quick call.
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board provided no help to the Swede and he headed to the payout desk.
On the river of a completed board of ![]()
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, Nikita Kuznetcov pushed into a shorter-stacked Serhii Holodiuk who made the call for the last 215,000.
Kuznetcov was caught bluffing with the ![]()
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Vojtech Susta raised to 60,000 from the cutoff and Pete Chen three-bet to 500,000 on the button, leaving himself behind with a mere 25,000-chip. Action folded back to Susta who made the call.
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and Susta bet 50,000 for Chen to dive deep into the tank as there were 72 players left and a pay jump was looming. Chen kept on tanking and even told the table that he'd be tanking until someone called the clock on him and that he'd understand if someone did. The tank lasted several more minutes and his tablemates all waited patiently for quite a while until one of them decided to pull the trigger and called the clock.
The floor came over, Chen confirmed that there would be a countdown. The floor confirmed and gave him 30 seconds. When she started counting down, Chen held his chip over the line before putting it down to make the call for his last 25,000 on the 2-second mark.
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The rest of the board was completed with the
on the turn and the
on the river for Chen to get eliminated. The floor confirmed Chen finished in 72nd place for €4,000 and that he had missed the pay jump.
Jyrki Lampinen jammed the button for the last 130,000 and Pete Chen in the big blind asked for a count, then reluctantly called.
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Both players had ace-rags and a split pot seemed likely on the ![]()
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flop. However, the
turn paired up Lampinen and his double was secured, which made the
river a formality.
Grzegorz Wyraz opened to 60,000 in the hijack and saw Fabio Di Blasi defend his big blind to take action heads up to a flop of ![]()
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. Di Blasi checked and Wyraz put out a continuation-bet of 65,000, which Di Blasi called. Action then checked through the turn
and river
to take the hand to showdown.
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upon checking back for nothing more than ace high to the board's pair of threes, and Di Blasi showed ![]()
to take the pot with sevens up.
David Vesely pushed for what appeared to be 385,000 on the button and he was called by Sergey Perelygin in the big blind.
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The superior pocket pair held up on the ![]()
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run out to eliminate Vesely.
Andrej Desset went all in for his last four big blinds from early position and action made its way around to Simon Burns, who was on the button and gave him action.
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Desset found himself with three outs going to the flop ![]()
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, which took his three outs away but gave him four new ones to Broadway. None of them hit, however, as the turn
and river
brought another pair on board to complete the runout and leave Desset dry on chips.
With some 170,000 in the middle, the flop showed ![]()
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and Gregory Armand got into a raising war with Mihails Morozovs. Armand eventually reraised to 650,000 and called the shove of Morozovs for 1.1 million.
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The
turn and
river run out kept Armand's hand best and he gasped a "fuck yeah, this is the run of my live," then added how much he loves the venue and the quality of the dealers.
Armand already reached the last two tables of the EPT National in Barcelona a few months ago and may very well do so again as he has become one of the current chip leaders.
After he was done stacking all the chips, he apologized to the table for his swear words and excitement.
In a battle of the blinds, Grzegorz Wyraz came along and got his last 505,000 in after the ![]()
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flop, turning over ![]()
for bottom pair and a flush draw. Jaroslav Peter was ahead with the ![]()
and had the far superior stack. However, the
turn and
river improved Wyraz to two pair.
The remaining 200,000 chips of Andrija Cvetkovic went in preflop from the hijack and Antal Mezei repushed from the button.
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, Cvetkovic missed out on his two live cards and became the next casualty on Day 2 as fewer than 90 players remain.