On a board of ![]()
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, Thomas Lhomme bet out 2,100 and Giorgio Sorbo min-raised to 4,200.
Lhomme elected to fold and Sorbo raked the 11,500 pot, flashing ![]()
for the straight.
On a board of ![]()
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, Thomas Lhomme bet out 2,100 and Giorgio Sorbo min-raised to 4,200.
Lhomme elected to fold and Sorbo raked the 11,500 pot, flashing ![]()
for the straight.
The Day 1b field has already reached 399 entries of which 397 players remain and the tournament is slowly but surely increasing, which may perhaps give it a shot at breaking the attendance record for the stop in Prague.
Break one record, that's good going. Break two in the space of a couple of days — that's something special.
The ever-popular Eureka Main Event and Eureka High Roller both crowned champions yesterday, with PokerNews on hand to pick up all the action.
Dutchman Pieter Theelen nursed his short stack to victory in the €1,100 Main Event, taking home €496,760 while Sander Ostlyngen took home €463,850 after winning the €2,200 High Roller.
Daniele D'Angelo raised to 300 and was three-bet to 1,100 by Stefan Nemetz, which Mehdi El Meray and Emin Mugulov called. The action got back to D'Angelo and he bumped it up to 5,800. Only Mugulov stuck around and check-called a bet worth 3,600 on the ![]()
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flop.
Both players checked the
turn and the
river paired the board for a second time. Mugulov now bet 8,500 and D'Angelo instantly sighed an "can I fold the aces? Hummm ...". One minute later, the Italian called and Mugulov tabled the ![]()
, which D'Angelo had beat with ![]()
.
After a raising war preflop, Samuiel Stan and Paul Newey saw a flop of ![]()
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with 2,700 already in the middle.
Newey checked from the small blind and put out a continuation-bet of 800, which Newey called.
The
turn paired the board and both players elected to check.
The river was the
and this time, Newey took the lead with a bet of 2,800. Stan took his time before calling and got the bad news as Newey flipped ![]()
for a full house.
Fabio Peluso raised on the button and called a three-bet by Quentin Guivarch, which led them to the ![]()
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flop. Guivarch bet and Peluso called to then see another bet of 3,000 on the
turn win the pot for Guivarch.
Peluso has already lost half of his stack in the opening stages while Guivarch and Christian Dalder have chipped up.
Vasileios Tsaknis bowed out early on Day 1a and then became the first player to exit Day 1b, ending his run in the €5,300 Main Event very early on since just one re-entry is allowed. The second player to bust was Adrian Garcia Galipienso as the clock now shows 371 entries of 373 players remaining.
The action started with Gabriele Patti in early position who raised to 200 and picked up callers from Henri Juutilainen, in the cutoff, and Jacques Der Megreditchian in the small blind.
On a flop of ![]()
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, Der Megreditchian checked and Patti continued for 700. Both Juutilainen and Der Megreditchian called and the three players went to the turn.
The turn fell the
and Der Megreditchian checked once more. Patti opted to check behind and this time it was Juutilainen reaching for chips opting to bet 2,000.
Both Der Megreditchian and Patti folded and Juutilainen stacked his newfound wealth.
Ami Barer raised to 400 on the button to get called by Do Tran in the small blind and Matthias Auer in the big blind. The trio checked the ![]()
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flop and Tran bet the
turn for 700. Only Auer called and the
river went check, check.
Tran tabled the ![]()
and Auer chopped with the ![]()
.
"It is getting better, I am chopping with you," the Austrian joked.