2023 PokerStars EPT Paris
Simon Mattsson opened to 2,300 from early position and Omar Lakhdari three-bet jammed a short stack from the button. Mattsson called with a bigger stack.
Omar Lakhdari: ![]()
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Simon Mattsson: ![]()
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The flop landed ![]()
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to give Lakhdari the lead but with Mattsson drawing to a flush. The board finished out ![]()
and Lakhdari avoided the spade and improved to trips to earn the double.
Fedor Holz and Marton Czuczor were heads up in a pot of roughly 40,000 chips. The completed board was ![]()
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and Holz shoved all in from the cutoff, covering his opponent on the button.
Czuczor called relatively quickly, but was no match for Holz, who had ![]()
for the nuts. Czuczor was forced to show the ![]()
for the turned straight as it concerned an all-in situation.
Czuczor left the tournament while Holz is playing close to three starting stacks.
Philip Shing raised to 2,000 from early position and Alberto Landgraf announced his reraise to 11,000. Action folded back around to Shing, who made the call for a decent chunk of his stack.
The flop came ![]()
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. Shing took less than a second to shove the flop for the rest of his chips, around 30,000. Landgraf moved his time bank cards into the middle as he thought about his decision.
"Man, I can't find the fold button," he said. And indeed he couldn't, eventually making the call. It was the right call to make though. Shing showed ![]()
and Landgraf showed ![]()
for a higher pocket pair.
The turn came the
to give Landgraf a set. This also brought Shing a little hope in the form of a flush draw, but it wasn't to be. The river came
and Landgraf held to eliminate Shing from the tournament.
Landgraf got up and shook his opponent's hand before Shing left the table.
Stephen Chidwick opened on the button and Bruno Volkmann and Apoorva Goel both called out of the blinds.
Action checked to Chidwick on the flop of ![]()
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and he continued for 2,100. Volkmann check-raised to 7,500 and Goel folded. Chidwick stared his opponent down for a bit and called.
The turn brought the
and Volkmann bet 23,000. Chidwick gave the board a glance and then folded.
Neville Endo Costa opened to 3,000 from under the gun. William Kassouf called from the next seat over, as did Jenya Gavrilovich on the button.
The trio saw a ![]()
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flop appear, which Costa checked to Kassouf. Kassouf bet 7,500 and Gavrilovich folded, while Costa decided to call.
The turn
saw Kassouf bet 16,500 after another check from Costa, remarking: ''If you have a flush, you have a flush.'' Costa most likely did not have a flush, as he let his hand go.
After the fact, Kassouf specifically requested PokerNews staff to include ''Hashtag like a boss'' in the post, just for good measure.
Shortly after the break, Toni Kaukua was all in from early position for his last 6,000. Nicolas Vayssieres called in the small blind and David Miscikowski called in the big blind.
The flop came ![]()
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and Vayssieres bet. Miscikowski folded and two players flipped their cards. Miscikowski showed ![]()
for a pair of queens. Kaukua showed ![]()
and was eliminated from the tournament.
PokerStars ambassador Parker Talbot was seen doubling his stack with a flush in a heads-up pot against Natan Chauskin to his left.
Talbot held ![]()
on the board of ![]()
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to beat the top pair of Chauskin with ![]()
and had a stack of around 70,000 at the end of it all.

The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris has been taking place all week long, and there has been a lot of action. We recently talked about much of it in the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which you can listen to here.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team has been on-site to offer live updates from a slew of EPT Paris tournaments. Here’s a look at five of the most exciting hands captured in our live updates from the EPT Paris, including one involving Johan "Yoh Viral" Guilbert that didn't sit well with many in the poker industry.
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Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000