Marius Pospiech opened the action with a raise to 700 and was called by the player in the big blind only. The German then fired three barrels: On the flop it was 900 to go, the turn triggered a bet of 2,600 and ultimately it was 7,200 to call on the river.
His opponent check-called the first two bets and then folded to the last one. Pospiech turned over his for a successful bluff. On the same table, Jonas Ten Cate has lost more than half the stack and is below the initial notation.
After a raise to 750, Adrian Mateos three-bet to 1,900 from the button and was called by the player in the small blind, Dominik Panka in the big blind and the initial raiser. On the board nobody made any bet and the player in the small blind revealed first. Panka then turned over and that won the pot for the PCA champion.
Martin Staszko opened to 700 and [Removed:414], who had qualified on PokerStars, clicked it to 2,000. Jan Heitmann now four-bet to 8,000 and quickly put around 28,000 of his stack at risk when Beumers got it in, Staszko had folded. Heitmann turned over the and freerolled after a flop, as Beumers held .
The on the turn guaranteed a split pot, making the river meaningless. Either way, Heitmann is up in chips through the past hour and same also applies for fellow German Marius Pospiech a few tables over.
Joining the action on the turn, Thomas Muehloecker bet 1,325 and Juan Riera called from one seat over to see the river. Muehloecker as well as his opponent from Spain both checked and the Austrian turned over for a busted gut shot. Riera also just had a straight draw and won the pot with jack-high, turning over the .
After a three-bet pot preflop and a check-raise on the flop, Tibor Nagygyorgy called a bet of 10,000 by Stefan Grunewald on the turn and the river completed the board. Grunewald moved all in with the superior stack to claim the pot of 30,000 chips, as Nagygyorgy tank-folded.
The Hungarian claimed to have had pocket kings and put his opponent on either jacks, queens or aces. Grunewald didn't give away any details.
We grabbed a moment with a few players and had them give answer to a fake scenario.
"PokerStars have added €100,000 to the first place prize here at EPT Malta but there’s a catch: you have 24 hours to spend it from the moment you win. What’s your plan?"
Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen: I’m going to invite all my friends and have a monster party. I’ll get some really good music so I'll need to hire a band. I’m really hooked on a Canadian band called Bare Naked Ladies or an English band called the Beautiful South – so I’d hire them if I could afford them and get them here in time.
Marvin Rettenmaier: Wow! This is not easy. I don’t really need a car, I actually don’t really need anything and I’d feel bad wasting that much money on a party or something. I would get you something! Whatever you want but maybe not for the whole hundred thousand. Ah, I know! I’d get some poker lessons with Ike [Haxton], I’ve heard they’re $3,000/hour.
Mustapha Kanit: Oh wow! I’d probably buy a car if I have 24 hours and I have to spend it. I’m a lazy guy so it’s easy to spend it all on a car. The funny thing is I don’t even have a license!
Dan Smith: I don’t know what Ibiza is like at this time of year but I’d charter a jet or helicopter there, depending on what’s more feasible, and I think we’d all have a party!
Ludovic Geilich: I’d play dice at the closest table I could find. I’d also give half to charity. So, fifty thousand to charity and gamble the other half. I’d hope to have some profit at the end of the 24 hours and I’d share all that between friends and myself.
Sorel Mizzi: Three words – hookers and blow! No, 100k in 24hours? I would buy gold, obviously, and convert it into cash later. That’s the ultimate answer but if I couldn’t find gold, hookers and blow.
John O’Shea: I’d punt it on a bet and hope to spin it up. What ever is on next Saturday, it’d all go on that. It’d be a quick way to spend the money and get rid of it in 24 hours.
Antoly Filatov: I’m going to buy everything I can find here in Malta and then take it all back to Russia and sell it for twice the price. Then I’d have €200,000 and that’s a plan, all tax-free too!
Dominik Panka raised to 700 from middle position and Thomas Muehloecker called from the cutoff. Simon Higgins then called from the small blind, Joey Lovelady came along from the big, and four players went to the flop, which came down .
After all players checked, the dealer burned and turned the . Once again it was checks all around. When the completed the board on the river, it went check-check to Panka, who decided to bet 1,300. One by one his opponents folded, and Panka took down the small pot.
It wasn't much of a hand, but gave us a good excuse to update you on their chip counts.
Agshin Rasulov played the €25,000 High Roller earlier in the week, but he didn't have much luck in that event. It seemed he may be destined to the same fate here in the Main Event as he got his short stack of 3,500 all in preflop holding the and was way behind the of Diego Zeiter.
Fortunately for Rasulov, lady luck smiled on him and delivered him a pair on the flop. Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and Rasulov scored the double. That said, the man from Azerbaijan is still on the shorter side of things.
flop it was 900 to go, the 
turn triggered a bet of 2,600 and ultimately it was 7,200 to call on the 
river.
for a successful bluff. On the same table, Jonas Ten Cate has lost more than half the stack and is below the initial notation.
board nobody made any bet and the player in the small blind revealed 
and freerolled after a 
.
on the turn guaranteed a split pot, making the 
river meaningless. Either way, Heitmann is up in chips through the past hour and same also applies for fellow German Marius Pospiech a few tables over.
river. Muehloecker as well as his opponent from Spain both checked and the Austrian turned over 
.
flop, Tibor Nagygyorgy called a bet of 10,000 by Stefan Grunewald on the 
. Once again it was checks all around. When the 
of Diego Zeiter.
