Sardor Gaziev just raised to 18,000 and Nick Petrangelo made the call in position. From the small blind Ludovic Geilich three-bet to 69,000 and Gaziev folded. Petrangelo made the call and the flop showed on which Geilich bet 95,000.
Petrangelo sized up his opponent for a while, but eventually he kicked his cards into the muck.
Alex Bilokur moved all in from the cutoff for 65,000 and Davidi Kitai re-shoved all in to get the players behind him to fold. All the others folded and the showdown went as following.
Bilokur:
Kitai:
The board ran out and at this point the Russian pro had picked up a flush draw, but the river was a complete blank. Kitai took down the pot and he's now closing in on the average stack again.
When we arrived the river was already dealt and Petrangelo had already announced all in. With the board reading the pot was already sizable. Petrangelo, acting out of the big blind, was all in for 91,000.
The decision was on Ludovic Geilich in early position. After a while Geilich made the call, only to muck when shown by Petrangelo. The dealer flipped over Geilich's as custom by an all in and call, and shoved the pot to Petrangelo.
Away from the Main Event it is the story of EPT Malta, the incredible run of Dzmitry Urbanovich who just claimed his fourth title of the festival, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Puk Nabuurs just explained how Marc MacDonnell just moved all in for five big blinds over an opening raise, and the Dutchman living in Malta 'clicked it back'. The initial raiser folded and Nabuurs got the knockout when his pocket sixes held up against .
Charles Carrel just told us how Olivier Busquet busted, as he moved all in from the button holding for his final 34,000 chips. The player in the big blind, Pablo Fernandez, made the call and he turned over .
Busquet got no help from the board and he was knocked out.
Andrew Chen came back from the dinner break with very little chips, and he just moved all in for 58,000 from the cutoff. Ludovic Geilich called from the button and both of the blinds decided to fold.
Chen:
Geilich:
The board ran out and the river gave Geilich a winning pair.
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