Hossein Ensan finds himself deep once again at EPT Prague, four years after he notched his first major victory here. A lot has changed for him in the poker world since then, but it's worth looking back on his breakout victory.
Hossein Ensan finds himself deep once again at EPT Prague, four years after he notched his first major victory here. A lot has changed for him in the poker world since then, but it's worth looking back on his breakout victory.
Luke Marsh had raised the cutoff and after that, the action escalated as Luigi Shehadeh on button three-bet to 81,000. Andreas Boelling in the small blind four-bet to 400,000 with around 340,000 behind. Marsh folded and Shehadeh moved all in, Boelling called it off.
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and Boelling was covered to hit the rail while Shehadeh scooped one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far.
Gaelle Baumann doubled with aces versus Francesco Candelari's kings at the feature table. The flop brought an ace and the river a king, where the rest of the money flew in.
Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
With 54 remaining players showing on the clock, they have been sent for their last break of the day. This time it's 30 minutes and play will resume at approximately 7:43 p.m. local time.
In the final hand before the break, Fredrik Andersson raised to 20,000, Giuseppe Zarbo three-bet to 60,000 and a four-bet shove by Andersson for around 250,000 was called instantly.
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and that spelled the end for Andersson in 55th place.
Laurent Michot raised to 21,000 from early position and Petr Hlavacek three-bet shoved 89,000 from middle position. Michot wasn't all too pleased to make the call but still did so after a second or twenty.
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flop paired Michot's inferior kicker, now leaving Hlavacek to draw to three outs. Neither one popped up on the
turn and
river to end his attempt near the end of level 19.
Xiaqing Ji shoved from the hijack and was called by Philipp Zukernik in the big blind.
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for Ji to river the Broadway to double up with to 188,000 in total.
Giuseppe Zarbo raised to 24,000 from under the gun and Giuseppe Cardone defended his big blind.
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flop to the
on the turn. Cardone bet 35,000 and Zarbo called.
The river completed the board with the
and Cardone checked. Zarbo looked over to see how much Cardone had behind and then bet 200,000. Carbone tanked, used a time bank card, and then folded.
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river with Stefan Egermann and Roman Herold having amassed a pot of 180,000.
Egermann overbet jammed for 214,000 and Herold thought for a moment before calling.
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for quad queens and Herold was forced to show ![]()
for aces full and Egermann doubled up.