Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Twenty minutes of break for the players as the first level of Day 3 is in the bag.
On a flop of ![]()
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Guillaume Darcourt checked from the big blind to his German opponent Robert Schulz in the cut off. Schulz bet out 8,700 and without thinking for too long Darcourt made the call.
Darcourt checked again on the
turn and Schulz gave it some thought before carefully cutting out 18,500 and sliding them forward. Darcourt's call was almost in before Schulz had released the chips.
The
fell on the river and Darcourt checked for the third time. Schulz thought about it for a bit before checking behind.
Darcourt showed ![]()
, Schulz mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
313,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
|
231,000
58,400
|
58,400 |
In the last hand before the break, Francesco Delfoco got his stack of 127,100 in the middle after a raising war with Massou Cohen and it was a classic race. The Italian had
and flipped against the
of his opponent. Delfoco would not find any help on a board of
and was sent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
322,700
106,800
|
106,800 |
|
|
Busted |
Dimitar Danchev raised to 6,000 from the button and the player in the big blind called to see the flop of
, which both players checked. On the
turn, Danchev's continuation bet of 8,000 got through and he climbs slowly in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
80,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
There are going to be a lot of flips today. Not the most strategic aspect of the game but an integral part of tournament poker, a necessary evil if you will.
Stefan Schillhabel got the last of it in with ![]()
and got looked up by the ![]()
of Jin Haijing.
The cards fell ![]()
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. The river dealt the fatal blow to Schillhabel just before the end of the level.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Jan Boubli defended his big blind against the raise of Patryk Slusarek and then check-raised all in after a flop of
. Initial raiser Slusarek called with the
and Boubli needed help with his
. Neither the
turn nor the
river changed anything and Boubli was done for the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
145,000
32,800
|
32,800 |
|
|
Busted |
Simon Ravnsbaek raised and then called the three-bet of Vadim Shlez out of the big blind to see a flop of
. The Dane got his opponent all in and at risk for 64,800 with
and then spotted the bad news as Shlez turned over the
. After the
turn, only the two remaining jacks would help but the
river was a brick.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
170,000
48,500
|
48,500 |
|
|
115,000
82,600
|
82,600 |
Olivier Piechaczyk took a lot of Milan Tomasz Rabsz’s chips earlier when he rivered a flush and now he had called a shove from Rabsz to put his tournament life at risk.
Piechaczyk tabled ![]()
and Rabsz the ![]()
.
The cards ran out ![]()
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and the kings held up to double up Rabsz.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
340,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
98,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
Adrien Guyon made it 6,000 from under the gun and action folded over to Sören Ingwart Vöhrs in middle position who three-bet to 14,000. Action came back around to Guyon and he called to see a flop.
The dealer put out ![]()
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and Guyon check-called a continuation bet of 15,000. The
hit fourth street and Guyon checked again. Vöhrs bet 25,000 and Guyon called once more.
The
paired the board on the river and both players checked. Guyon tabled ![]()
and it was good against Vöhrs' ![]()
.
"Come on!" said Guyon triumphantly, standing from the table. "Come on!"
His deuces allowed him to pick up a pot that boosted his stack to right around 300,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000
8,900
|
8,900 |
|
|
70,000
65,000
|
65,000 |