Some 11 tables remain in the secondary Palmiers Room but they have already started breaking into the Salle des Etoiles as the Day 1b field has been whittled below 400 remaining players.
Some 11 tables remain in the secondary Palmiers Room but they have already started breaking into the Salle des Etoiles as the Day 1b field has been whittled below 400 remaining players.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Belarmino De Souza raised from early position and Eugenio Peralta jammed his last 7,900 from the button. The blinds folded and De Souza called to put him at risk.
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and Peralta's eights held to secure the double and leave De Souza with 3,500 in chips.
On the next hand, De Souza open-shoved the last of it from under the gun. Action folded around to Bruno Lopes, who called from the small blind before Boris Kolev shoved from the big blind. Lopes folded quickly and action was heads-up with De Souza at risk.
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and Kolev made a pair of aces on the flop to eliminate De Souza from the tournament.
Peter Moore had vaulted out of his seat and summarized "that's just how my day went" as his ![]()
ended up second-best. He was up once more against Salvatore Sablone, who got there with the ![]()
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board.
As Moore concluded that it would have gone in after the flop anyways, it can be rightfully assumed that this had been a preflop contest.
Matas Cimbolas and Fabrice Fort are also no longer in contention on neighbouring tables either.
Peter Moore was already all-in with a short stack and on a later street, Salvatore Sablone also committed his stack against Thomas Rauhut when they got it in after the ![]()
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turn.
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The
river improved Moore and Sablone to a straight and Rauhut was more than stunned. Moore called his shot to make a miracle comeback from 6,500 chips.
In a battle big blind versus under the gun, table big stack [Removed:510] bet the ![]()
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river for 11,200. Peter Mikschik had 11,600 behind and called to muck when Trofimov tabled the ![]()
for two pair.
Andrey Andreev and Michael Rudolph then limped and Espen Jorstad raised to 2,100 on the button. Mikschik was forced all-in from the big blind and Andreev as well as Rudolph called. The ![]()
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flop was checked to Jorstad, who bet 2,400 and earned two calls. On the
turn, they checked to Jorstad again who bet 7,400 and isolated.
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Mikschik was on his way out but spiked the
on the river.
Trofimov then min-raised the button and Mikschik called with very few chips behind, as did Jules Hamidou in the big blind. The ![]()
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flop was check-called or 500 by Hamidou as the
turn was checked. Hamidou wanted to bet 2,000 on the
river but made it 6,000 to which Trofimov called with a single chip.
Hamidou mucked to forfeit the pot and then admitted his mishap while Trofimov won the pot without showdown.
Last but not least, Mikschik got it in with a king and Lorenzo Lavis turned an unbeatable flush with the ![]()
to knock out the German.
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flop, Fabrice Fort checked and then opted to call a bet worth 1,500 by Justin Steinbrenner. The
turn repeated the same action albeit for 5,000 in chips and Fort checked the
river once more.
Steinbrenner now bet 7,000 which represented most of Fort's short stack and no call followed to award the pot to the 2021 EPT Prague semi-finalist.
Justin Steinbrenner raised to 1,200 from early position and Kosei Kitano three-bet to 3,500. Stian Knutsen jammed his last 10,400 and Steinbrenner quickly folded.
Kitano went into the tank for a moment and considered his options, but he ultimately tossed his hand in the muck to give Knutsen the pot.
Following an initial raise by Georgios Vrakas and a call by Davidi Kitai, the duo headed to the ![]()
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flop on which they invested 1,000 each. They checked the
turn and the
river brought no betting action either.
Vrakas tabled the ![]()
for the busted nut flush draw, which Kitai had beat holding the ![]()
. Both players remain below the starting stack by a notch in the fifth level of the day.