Anton Bertilsson called a raise and then four-bet shoved into the squeeze of Fabio Sperling. The German snap-called with but Bertilsson made a jack-high straight on the turn with to stay in the tournament.
EPT Live commentator James Hartigan told us the story of his first EPT, which was during the first season in Deauville. Interestingly enough Hartigan didn't do commentary on his first EPT, but he actually played in it.
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The annual series kicks-off on Jan. 22 at 11a.m. with a four-day $570 buy-in Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em event featuring a $1 million guaranteed prize pool with six starting flights.
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Satellite events for the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship will be held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Jan. 22-Feb 10, 2015.
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Jakub Slemar, Miltiadis Kyriakides and Bjorn Wiesler went to a flop of and a bet of 145,000 from Slemr saw just Wiesler make the call. They both checked the turn and river .
Wiesler showed for a full house and won a smallish pot.
Francesco Grieco raised to 85,000 and claimed the blinds and antes. Then, Anton Bertilsson raised to 85,000 from the small blind and Grieco called in the big blind. The Italian took a few minutes to fold the flop to a continuation bet of Bertilsson.
One hand later, Bertilsson raised to 85,000 from the button and Jonathan Wong called in the big blind. On the flop, the Swede got through with yet another continuation bet of 85,000.
Remi Castaignon raised to 85,000 and Fabio Sperling called in the big blind to see the flop of . Both players checked and the on the turn saw a check-call of Sperling for 85,000. The German checked the river, Castaignon checked behind and mucked when Sperling showed for a full house.
Davidi Kitai limped from the button, Remi Castaignon called in the small blind and Anton Bertilsson checked his option in the big blind. Castaignon then check-folded the flop to a bet of 60,000 by Bertilsson and Kitai called. On the turn, Bertilsson bet 130,000 and was called before both players checked the river.
Bertilsson showed the for two pair and Kitai threw his cards into the muck, seemingly not pleased by the outcome of the hand.