Nick Hicks has just helped himself to a 1,430,000 pot after cracking the aces of Jakob Michalak.
Michalak opened to 250,000 with the and was called by Nick Hicks with the . The flop was the dream flop for Hicks, but he decided to slow play his trip jacks and he checked behind when Michalak failed to fire a continuation bet. Hicks then led for 250,000 on the turn and Michalak called. The river completed the board and Hicks fired an 800,000 bet. Michalak called and saw that his hand was now second best.
Gwendoline Janot opened to 240,000 with and the action folded to Peter Linton who had been dealt . Linton is not the kind of player who needs much of an excuse to raise and he three-bet to 650,000 prompting a fold from Janot.
Nick Hicks raised to 250,000 in the first hand, everyone folded and Hicks won the blinds and antes.
Hicks raised to 250,000 in the second hand too, holding . Alban Juen three-bet to 675,000 from the small blind with and Hicks made the call to see a flop of . Juen fired 755,000 and that was enough to get Hicks off his pair.
Gwendonline Janot raised to 300,000 in the small blind with and Xavier El Fassy folded in the big blind.
It's time for the final table of the International Stadiums Poker Tour from Wembley Stadium as our last six are taking their seats in a specially setup TV studio. There is a stream with the hole cards being shown on a 30 minute delay and as soon as we get the link for that, we will share it with you.
Meanwhile, both last night and this morning the six players have been battling out a deal, which has been confirmed to us as follows:
Name
Money
Pete Linton
€375,000
Alban Juen
€290,000
Nick Hicks
€254,000
Gwendoline Janot
€243,000
Jakub Michalak
€236,000
Xavier El Fassy
€204,000
The players have had to leave €200,000 for first place so this will make the final a bit faster as now it's basically winner takes all.
Position
Name
Chips
Seat 1
Pete Linton
11,070,000
Seat 2
Nick Hicks
6,230,000
Seat 3
Jakub Michalak
4,825,000
Seat 4
Alban Juen
7,615,000
Seat 5
Gwendoline Janot
5,880,000
Seat 6
Xavier El Fassy
4,555,000
We're now just waiting for confirmation that play has started.
and was called by Nick Hicks with the 
. The 
flop was the dream flop for Hicks, but he decided to slow play his trip jacks and he checked behind when Michalak failed to fire a continuation bet. Hicks then led for 250,000 on the 
turn and Michalak called. The 
river completed the board and Hicks fired an 800,000 bet. Michalak called and saw that his hand was now second best.
and the action folded to Peter Linton who had been dealt 
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. Alban Juen three-bet to 675,000 from the small blind with 
and Hicks made the call to see a flop of 
. Juen fired 755,000 and that was enough to get Hicks off his pair.
in the big blind.