Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Clyde Tjauw Foe told us about a hand where Dmitry Yurasov opened to 1,000. Dimitar Danchev three bet to 2,700 and Tjauw Foe cold called from the small blind. The big blind over called and Yurasov resqueezed to 8,000. Danchev now four bet to 8,000 and both Tjauw Foe and the big blind folded. Yurasov shoved all in for a little more than that, and Danchev called.
Yurasov flipped over ![]()
and was up against Danchev's pocket kings. Yurasov rivered a ten to fill up his straight draw to doubled.
Not much later he got another present as he busted a player who committed all of his chips with ![]()
. Yurasov had ![]()
and gained some more.
Tjauw Foe told us that Yurasov had gotten lucky before all of this when he shoved for 30 big blinds with ![]()
and split against his opponent's ![]()
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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|
70,000
58,700
|
58,700 |
|
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50,400
8,400
|
8,400 |
|
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50,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
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World Series of Poker Europe champion Adrian Mateos opened for 1,400 from middle position. Jean Pierre Besancon three bet to 3,300 from the hijack and action folded back to Mateos. The Spaniard shoved all in for about 16,00 and Besancon instantly called.
Mateos got the bad news pretty quick as Besancon showed up with ![]()
. Mateos himself had ![]()
and wasn't able to catch up: ![]()
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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Busted | |
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Jonathan Little opened for 1,400 from early position and Martins Adeniya three-bet from the cut-off to 3,300. The blinds folded and Little threw in the call.
The flop was ![]()
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and Little check-called a bet of 3,000 from Adeniya. On the turn card
Little checked but then Adeniya bet 7,000 he check-raised all in just covering Adeniya’s stack who quickly called.
Adeniya’s ![]()
had raced ahead of the ![]()
of Little on the turn. The river card
crippled Little and gave the patient Martins a double up.
Little was all in on the next hand and Martins raised to isolate. Cards on their backs and Little was slightly ahead with ![]()
versus the ![]()
. A run out of ![]()
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gave Little a lifeline.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
80,000
63,500
|
63,500 |
|
|
4,800
32,200
|
32,200 |
The board read ![]()
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when we found Joseph Carlino and Owain Carey heads up with a sizable pot already built in the middle. Carey checked over to Carlino on the button. Carlino moved 3,500 into the middle only to have Carey check-raise the action to 8,200.
Carlino thought for a moment before reaching for a large handful of chips. He three-bet the action to 19,500, putting the pressure back onto Carey. Carey went deep into the tank, thinking for well over four minutes. Ultimately, he opted to drop his hand into the muck.
"I think it's a good bet whether you've got it or you haven't," said Carey after folded.
A smile washed over Carlino's face as he flashed the
to the table before mucking his cards and taking down the pot. With this win, his stack is now up to about 71,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
71,000 | |
|
|
69,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Mindaugas Jonuskis opened for 1,200 and then saw Emil Ekvardt pop it up to 2,725. Andre Andrade, sat next to him, went for the cold four-bet to 5,800. With Jonuskis out of the way they got the rest of the chips in the middle and the cards were face up.
Andrade: ![]()
Ekvardt: ![]()
The board ran out ![]()
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with the turn card delivering the knockout blow to Andrade and a very healthy pot the way of Ekvardt.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
130,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
|
Busted |
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After a raise to 1,350 and call, Dmitry Yurasov squeezed to 4,400. Both the initial raiser and Nandor Solyom the caller, added the necessary chips to see a flop.
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Action checked to Yurasov who bet 6,100. The first player folded but Solyom check raised to 20,000. Yurasov made the call.
Both players checked the
on the turn and the
popped up on the river. Solyom now bet 18,000 and Yurasov made the call after some hefty thinking.
Solyom showed ![]()
and Yurasov mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
51,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
The flop was ![]()
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and the under-gun raiser Jeffrey Brouwer bet 2,800. Pablo Gordillo then made it 6,900 and Joao Vieira in the big blind moved all in.
Brouwer didn’t look best pleased but mucked his hand while Gordiullo made the call.
Gordiullo turned over ![]()
for the flopped trips and Vieira was up and down with his ![]()
.
The turn
and river
saw the full house of Gordiullo bust Vieira.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
73,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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And then the tournament is done for the day. We'll report back to you when we have chip counts, and of course you may expect an extensive recap of today's action later tonight.