€25,500 High Roller Day 2 | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Malta

03-19-2015 17:33 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts from Table 3

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Petrangelo	420,000
Andreas Eiler	205,000
Jose Carlos Garcia	185,000
Dani Stern	165,000
Philipp Gruissem	133,000
Ramin Hajiyev	95,000
Oleksii Khoroshenin	92,000

Alexandros Kolonias	Busted

03-19-2015 17:34 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts from Table 2

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Greenwood	450,000 45,000	45,000

Sorel Mizzi	200,000 100,000	100,000
Stephen Chidwick	160,000 10,000	10,000

Ihar Soika	150,000 65,000	65,000
Agshin Rasulov	140,000 25,000	25,000
Daniel Dvoress	80,000 -5,000	-5,000

Dan Smith	55,000 -43,000	-43,000

Salman Behbehani	35,000 -165,000	-165,000

03-19-2015 17:35 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts from Table 1

Happy_Freaked

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Connor Drinan	460,000
Piotr Franczak	258,000 43,000	43,000
Martin Finger	214,000 -86,000	-86,000

Dzmitry Urbanovich	210,000 -45,000	-45,000

Isaac Haxton	190,000 3,600	3,600

Jeff Rossiter	179,000 9,000	9,000
Davidi Kitai	160,000

Simon Ravnsbaek	36,000 -69,000	-69,000

03-19-2015 17:43 UTC+2

Salman Behbehani Eliminated

Webjoker

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Salman Behbehani shoved all in from early position for his last 32,000. Action folded to Daniel Dvoress who shoved over the top all in. The big blind folded.

Salman Behbehani:
Daniel Dvoress:

The flop was pretty good for Dvoress, giving him a pair and a flush draw: .

Behbehani wouldn't hit one the spare outs he had left; on the turn, on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Dvoress	120,500 40,500	40,500

Salman Behbehani	Busted

Tags: Daniel Dvoress Salman Behbehani

03-19-2015 17:45 UTC+2

Simon Ravnsbæk Eliminated

Webjoker

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

We saw Simon Ravnsbæk walking away from the table, still smiling as usual. He did just got knocked out though, and we asked Isaac Haxton what had happened.

Haxton told us that Connor Drinan had opened and Simon Ravnsbæk had shoved fro his last 25,000. Drinan made the call.

Drinan had off suit while Ravnsbæk was the owner of . Drinan's hand held up and Ravnsbæk hit the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Connor Drinan	640,000 40,000	40,000
Simon Ravnsbaek	Busted

Tags: Connor Drinan Isaac Haxton Simon Ravnsbaek

03-19-2015 17:54 UTC+2

Start-of-Day Chip Leader Oleksii Khoroshenin Hits the Rail

Webjoker

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Start-of-day chip leader Oleksii Khoroshenin has been knocked out of the tournament. The Ukrainian player had a tough day today, losing lots of chips early on to Nick Petrangelo, and losing the rest just now in back to back hands.

First he check raised all in on a flop of with from the big blind. Ramin Hajiyev in the cutoff had and that hand was still good after the hit the turn and hit the river.

Khoroshenin lost 83,800 in that hand, and had just 15,000 left after that.

He moved in for 14,700 not much later. His button shove got called by Philipp Gruissem in the big blind. The German player had while Khoroshenin had gone to battle with .

The flop came and Gruissem pointed at the six to make sure everyone saw he hat hit. Khoroshenin for sure knew, and he got up from the table while the dealer put the and the out to complete the board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ramin Hajiyev	172,600 77,600	77,600
Philipp Gruissem	149,000 16,000	16,000
Oleksii Khoroshenin	Busted

Tags: Nicholas Petrangelo Oleksii Khoroshenin Philipp Gruissem Ramin Hajiyev

03-19-2015 17:58 UTC+2

Soika Eliminated in Three-Way Clash, Smith Triples

Happy_Freaked

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Dan Smith moved all in before the flop for 46,700 and the action folded to Ihar Soika in the small blind. Soika gave it some thought and decided to go all in over the top for about 80,000 more. Sam Greenwood, seated in the big blind, called and with that he put two players at risk of being eliminated.

Smith:
Soika:
Greenwood:

The board ran out and Soika hit the rail while Smith tripled up. Greenwood also profited on the hand as we are down to 19 players.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Greenwood	485,000 35,000	35,000

Dan Smith	142,500 87,500	87,500

Ihar Soika	Busted

Tags: Dan Smith Sam Greenwood Ihar Soika

03-19-2015 18:00 UTC+2

Eiler Takes Some From Garcia

Happy_Freaked

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Jose Carlos Garcia from Poland just raised to 9,100 from the cutoff and Andreas Eiler three-bet from the small blind to 26,500. Garcia tanked for about a minute before four-betting to 44,600 and Eiler made the call.

The flop brought out and Eiler check-called 18,000. On the turn the hit and both players checked.

The river completed the board with the and this time it was Eiler who took the betting lead with 36,000. Garcia folded his cards and Eiler picked up this pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andreas Eiler	267,000 62,000	62,000
Jose Carlos Garcia	115,000 -70,000	-70,000

Tags: Andreas Eiler Jose Carlos Garcia

03-19-2015 18:02 UTC+2

Garcia Gutted by Philbort

Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

We missed the elimination of Poland's Jose Carlos Garcia, but we learned a few details after the fact.

According to Dani Stern, it happened when Philipp Gruissem raised the button and Garcia three-bet jammed from the big blind for a little over 100K. Gruissem called with , which was ahead of Garcia's offsuit.