2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo
Ludovic Sultan was all-in for his 35,000 chips in the big blind, Sebastien Seguin was all-in for his 47,000 chips on the button, and both players were covered by Joezer Tadger in the hijack.
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flop kept Sultan in front with his ace-high, but the
turn vaulted Seguin ahead, as the
completed the board and sent Sultan to the payout desk.
With a big pot brewing over 250,000 and ![]()
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on the board, Gerald Claude Soldermann checked from the big blind and Markus Garberg put out a stack of T-5,000.
Soldermann sighed and counted out his last 30,000 before stacking them up and moving them to the middle. Garberg turned over ![]()
and Soldermann saw the bad news as he tabled ![]()
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The river was
and the kings held to eliminate Soldermann from the tournament. Garberg has chipped up to over 450K early in Day 2.
Soon after the start of Day 2, Gaelle Baumann had defended her big blind against a raise by Guy Allouche and check-jammed the ![]()
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flop for 45,000 in order to get a fold from her opponent.
They battled again just now on a paired queen-high board on which Allouche bet 27,000. Baumann moved all-in for just 40,000 and to the surprise of everyone at the table, Allouche instantly folded.
Daniel Smyth raised to 48,000 from middle position leaving himself just 1,000 behind, and Sebastien Maestrati called in the big blind.
The flop fell ![]()
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and Smyth's remaining 1,000 went into the middle.
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Smyth was looking for a king, but the
and
completed the board to send him to the payout desk.
With over 180,000 and ![]()
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on the board, Lucas Scafini shoved with over 1,000,000 and Benjamin Spragg went into the tank.
After several moments, Spragg tossed his hand in the muck and gave the pot to Scafini.
Spragg has fallen behind early in the day, while Scafini is still setting the pace at the top of the leaderboard.
Petroni Giovanni got his last 135,000 into the middle from early position and Christos Xanthopoulos called to put him at risk.
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The board ran out ![]()
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and the aces held to eliminate Giovanni from the tournament in early Day 2 action.
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, Enrico Francesio checked his option and Giuliano Bendinelli bet 77,000 from one seat over. Eugenio Peralta then raised to 195,000 and Francesio called while Bendinelli mucked his cards with force.
Peralta tabled the ![]()
for the second nut flush and Francescio mucked his ![]()
for the straight and nut flush blocker.
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Laurie Tournier returned as one of the shortest stacks for Day 2 and was spotted on her way out. Her cards were already in the muck as Hung Nguyen raked in the pot with the ![]()
, which had made a full house on the ![]()
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board.