Patryk Poterek and Grzegorz Derkowski got their chips in before the flop, with Poterek being a whole ton shorter than his countryman. Poterek was at risk holding and was dominated by Derkowski's .
The flop wasn't good for Poterek, and the on the turn sealed the deal. The on the river was there just for good measures, and Poterek was escorted to the pay out desk.
Marko Neumann had bet 22,000 on the turn of a board reading and Miguel Chaparro jammed it all in over the top for 160,000. Neumann sat puzzling it out for a minute before making the call.
Chaparro had shoved with and Neumann had him out pipped with . The river card was no help and Chaparro was out the door.
Dan Shak opened for 11,000 and called a 46,000 shove from Helge Pedersen. Shak’s faced off against the of Pederson.
A run out of again saw queens on the flop put a dent in Shak’s stack and Pedersen doubled his stack. Pedersen felt obliged to defend his shove and Shak agreed neither of them did anything wrong in the hand. Shak has though increased his stack since the last time we checked in with him.
Yves Boschetti has been knocked out by Piotr Sowinski, it looked as though all the money went in on a flop. Boschetti turned over but Sowinski flipped and won after the turn and river.
2 Months 2 Million star Emil Patel has just eliminated Frenchman Ludovic Riehl.
Riehl pushed before the flop from the cutoff holding , and Patel reshoved from the small blind with .
Patel flopped an eight, though left his opponent not drawing dead just yet: . The on the turn and on the river didn't let Riehl come from behind though, and he left the tournament stage.
On the turn of an board, Davidi Kitai bet 33,000 before Josh Prager raised to 75,000. Kitai thought briefly and made the call to see the on the river. The Belgian led out again for another 33,000 and Prager quickly folded, Kitai showed for a missed double gutshot
Grzegorz Mikielewicz discovered poker in the back room of a bowling alley in Poland. He used to play semi-professionally for a number of years and now he is a member of PokerStars Team Online. Martin Finger is at his table and was quizzing him about being the time he bowled the perfect game and how he did it.
Mikielewicz said it was analogous to poker. You just keep trying to do the best you can each time over and over again and eventually it can come off; variance basically. In bowling it also helps to have the best equipment as the house bowls won’t impart the spin needed to hit the sweet spot on the pins. “Ah, so you cheated?” Finger joked.
Gianluca Speranza pushed all in for his remaining 54,500 from the hijack, and Mikhail Korotkikh on the button made the call. Both blinds folded, and Speranza and Korotkikh opened their hand.
Speranza:
Korotkikh:
The consisted of mainly low cards, but none of 'em helped Speranza. The Italian player made his exit, Korotkikh is back to the stack he about started with today.
We're playing the 100th EPT Main Event but there still has never been a Spanish winner. How come? Will it ever end? PokerStars Blog looks at some of the reasons for the drought and speculates who might be the one to end it.
On a flop of , Christian Grundtvig was all in with against Robin Ylitalo's , the offered a few chop ous but the was all Ylitalo's and he eliminated Grundtvig as a result.
and was dominated by Derkowski's 
.
flop wasn't good for Poterek, and the 
on the turn sealed the deal. The 
on the river was there just for good measures, and Poterek was escorted to the pay out desk.
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and Neumann had him out pipped with 
. The river card 
faced off against the 
of Pederson.
again saw queens on the flop put a dent in Shak’s stack and Pedersen doubled his stack. Pedersen felt obliged to defend his shove and Shak agreed neither of them did anything wrong in the hand. Shak has though increased his stack since the last time we checked in with him.
flop. Boschetti turned over 
but Sowinski flipped 
.
on the river didn't let Riehl come from behind though, and he left the tournament stage.
for a missed double gutshot
