A short-stacked Danny Blair was all in and at risk before the flop for his last 50,500 against Benny Spindler. The cards were tabled to show the two racing for Blairs tournament life.
Blair:
Spindler:
The board fell down , keeping Spindler's pocket fives out in front. Blair was eliminated just short of the money and Spindler brought his stack to 295,000.
Marko Neumann fired a bet of 54,500 on the river of a board against PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo. de Melo tanked for a long time, apologising to the table for the amount she was taking before eventually making the call.
Neumann turned over for a turned set to win a big pot.
From the cutoff Christian Favale raised to 9,000 and the player on his left made the call before Xavier El Fassy moved all in from the big blind for 122,500. Favale took his time before ultimately moving all in, and that got the player on the button to fold right away.
El Fassy:
Favale:
The board ran out and El Fassy left the tournament room looking utterly disappointed after busing out a few spots away from the money.
Fadhil Farag and Salman Behbehani got all the chips in the middle with Farag the player at risk but tabling . Behbehani wasn’t too pleased to see that as he turned over his .
The cards fell . Safe enough for Farag who doubled through Behbehani.
The action folded to PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo who raised to 8,000 from the cutoff and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden started laughing right away from the small blind. The two have had some good banter at the table but Lodden folded right away when the action got to him.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree however made the call from the big blind.
The flop brought out and Boeree check-called 9,000. On the turn the hit and once again Boeree checked. Moreira de Melo tanked for a little while before putting together a bet of 14,000 and Boeree called once more.
The river was the and this time both ladies checked. Boeree showed but that was no good as Moreira de Melo had rivered a pair with .
"You're good," Moreira de Melo smiled.
"I know," Boeree smiled right back at her opponent.
While this hand was going on the chip leader of the tournament. Raffaele Sorrentino was moved to Moreira de Melo's right and he's been chipping up nicely so far to 670,000 chips as of right now.
"Mmmmm," Marko Neumann said when Sorrentino put his chips down on the table as this secondary featured table gets better and better.
Martijn Dingeman Ardon opened the action for 8,000 and faced a three-bet from the aggressive Russian, Anatoly Filatov for 26,000. It folded round to Ardon who made the call and they went to a flop of .
Ardon check-called a bet of 23,000 from Filatov and on the turn card he did the same for a bet of 38,000. The river was the and Filatov, who was receiving a vigorous elbow to the shoulder from a massage girl, took his time sorting his chips into different piles before putting gout a bet of 90,000. Ardon didn’t rush his decision but he did make the call. “Ten high.” Filatov said without turning his cards over. Ardon showed the to take the pot.
A few minutes passed before Filatov enquired of his neighbour, “You always call with ace high?”
“Against you? I probably would.” reasoned the Dutchman.
[Removed:119] opened the action to 10,000 and it folded around to Leo Nordin in the small blind. Nordin came out with a three-bet to 32,000, prompting the big blind to let go of his hand. Bensadoun thought for a bit before dropping out a flat call.
The flop was and Bensadoun checked to the raiser. Nordin continued out for 24,000 and Bensadoun wasted little time coming over the top with a check-raise to 50,000 straight.
Nordin's response to the check-raise was to move all in, prompting an instant fold from Bensadoun. Nordin took down the pot and brought his stack to 250,000.
Former EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee looked all set to add Jens Lakemeier's chips to his stack when the German got all in with against MacPhee's . But fortune favoured Lakemeier as the board came to make a set of eights on the river.
MacPhee dropped to around 230,000 while Lakemeier doubled to about 130,000.