Sebastian Percy-Smith shoved from the small blind for 80,000 and was called by Giuseppe Zarbo in the big blind.
Sebastian Percy-Smith: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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for Percy-Smith to hold with the higher kicker to double up with.
Sebastian Percy-Smith shoved from the small blind for 80,000 and was called by Giuseppe Zarbo in the big blind.
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The board ran out ![]()
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for Percy-Smith to hold with the higher kicker to double up with.
Tom Vogelsang was all in for 113,000 with the ![]()
and Luke Marsh had him dominated with the ![]()
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and Vogelsang hit the eight to double.
Antonin Teisseire three-bet shoved out of the big blind for 76,000 and tabled the ![]()
after being called by Pierre Calamusa, who held the ![]()
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and Teisseire joked in French "be careful, don't give me too many presents."
First, Dietrich Fast doubled up Kemal Aslan on the river where a backdoor spade draw completed. Aslan shoved all in for 48,000 and Fast snapped him off with ![]()
, only to be shown ![]()
for a higher flush.
A few hands later, Fast was on the right side of the equation in a hand against Dinesh Alt. With the ![]()
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board completed, Alt used a time bank card before betting 67,000 and Fast called it off after burning through one of his extensions as well.
Alt indicated Fast was good before revealing ![]()
. Fast showed ![]()
and moved up over the 400K mark.
The next hand, Alt also lost an all-in with ![]()
against short stack Renato Hysenbelli, who had shoved his last 45,000 with ![]()
. A ten-high board left Alt behind with 105,000 in chips.
Wing Sang Lee raised to 10,000 from the cutoff and was called by Frederik Andersson on the button and Stanislav Koleno and Juan Pardo in the blinds.
The flop came ![]()
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, it was checked to Lee who continued with a bet of 10,000 which only Koleno called.
The turn was the
and Koleno check-called the 36,000 bet of Lee.
The river completed the board with the
and both players checked. Koleno showed ![]()
for the flopped two pair but Lee held ![]()
for trip kings to scoop the pot.
Krasimir Yankov raised to 11,000 in the cutoff and was called by Akin Tuna on the button and Dan Serban Borlan in the small blind. Lin Ruida in the big blind made it 70,000 to go and Yankov used one time bank before moving all in. Tuna and Borlan quickly folded and Ruida asked for a count.
The shove was for 476,000 and Ruida had three time banks at his disposal and used them all but ended up folding. Yankov offered to show one card and the
was revealed.
Orpen Kisacikoglu ![]()
raised to 10,000 from under the gun and Antonio Smeraglia three-bet all in for 34,000 from the next position. Hossein Ensan ![]()
four-bet all in for 165,000 from the hijack and Kisacikoglu folded.
Smeraglia was the at risk player and needed to win his flip to stay alive.
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gave Smeraglia a set but the turn
improved Ensan to a straight draw. The river
completed his straight and sent Smeraglia to the rail.
Here are the updated chip counts from the featrue table.
Yake Wu was all in against Michael O'Grady pre-flop. Wu held ![]()
but was up against the ![]()
of O'Grady.
"Better than ace-x," said Szecsi as the flop came ![]()
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, visibly deflating the at risk Wu.
"Ten?" said Szecsi and the turn came the
. Szecsi remained silent ahead of the impending river card, which was the
completing a backdoor straight for Wu.
"I didn't want to say jack on the river," said an abashed Szecsi as Wu doubled up.
Giuseppe Zarbo had raised from the button and Nariman Yaghmai shoved in the big blind for 127,000 which Zarbo called.
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The board ran out ![]()
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for Zarbo to hold and eliminate Yaghmai with the higher pocket pair in his hand.
The following players have been eliminated recently. Included in that batch are Andrea Dato, Paul Newey, and former EPT Prague champion Martin Finger. Yehuda Cohen has also been unable to spin up his stack after getting short not long ago.
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with around 65,000 in the middle.
Bryan Paris had checked from the big blind and Roman Herold bet 45,000 in the early position. Paris took some time and then opted to make the call.
The river completed the board with the
and Paris checked for the last time, Herold shoved and Paris tanked, used a time bank card and then made the call.
Herold held ![]()
for Paris to quickly flip over ![]()
for the flopped two pair to double up with for the 116,000 he still had behind.