Philipp Gruissem opened on the button for 1,300 and got a call from big stack Jonathan Clark in the small blind.
They went to a flop of and Clark checked it over to Gruissem who bet 1,400. Clark responded with a check-raise to 3,100. This gave Gruissem something to think about and his response was to bump it up to 8,000.
Clark called the bet and they saw the turn card come the . A check from Clark saw Gruissem move all in for 29,000.
Clark looked suspiciously at the German for a while but after a quick check of his stack he let it go. Clark and Ludovic Geilich then discussed what hands Gruissem could have had with ace-king of hearts and eight-nine of hearts in the mix. “He could have had kings.” was Geilich’s last word on it but Gruissem sure wasn’t saying,
Several players have been eliminated recently and among them was also Yehoram Houri, who had been cruising through the day thus far. We missed the action, but Natalia Breviglieri explained what had happened. Houri raised to 1,600 from under the gun and Ahmed Abdella in the cutoff as well as both players in the blinds called.
On the rainbow flop, Houri's continuation bet of 3,500 was called by Abdella and the small blind before Houri bet the turn for 8,000. Abdella raised to 24,000 and the small blind folded, Houri called and both players had just under starting stack left. On the river, Houri check-called the shove of Abdella for 29,000 and was unable to beat the for top two of his opponent to join the rail.
Natalia Breviglieri three-bet shoved for her last 13,200 into a raise of 1,600 and scooped the blinds and antes as well as the raise after the fold of her opponent.
One table over, Morten Mortensen had even less chips than that and shoved for his last 5,100 from under the gun. Only Javier Zarco in late position called and the cards were turned over.
Morten Mortensen:
Javier Zarco:
The board ran out and Mortensen stayed in for now.
If you travel the world for business, you get accustomed to shrugging it off when friends tell you how jealous they are. They talk green-eyed about your lucky, jet-set lifestyle, imagining that you step off the plane and on to the beach.
Much like the travelling salesman who knows that the truth of it actually means trading one out-of-town business park and travel tavern for a foreign out-of-town business park and travel tavern, people on the international poker circuit know that this world isn't as glamorous as you might think. The one thing you learn quickly is that the inside of casinos tend to look remarkably similar regardless of country and even continent. You've seen one blackjack pit, you've seen them all.
Aditya Agarwal, a PokerStars Team Pro from India opened the betting for 1,700 and faced a three-bet to 4,000 from Pierre Neuville. Agarwai thought it over before he called.
The flop was and Agarwi check-called a bet of 5,600 from Neuville. The turn card saw both players check before the completed the board.
Agarwal check, Neuville bet 9,000 and Agarwal called.
Neuville showed while Agarwal tabled . Chop it up.
The final numbers for the event are currently confirmed and it looks like there have been 178 entries in total. Almost 50 participants have been eliminated and there are just three tables left in the "Lounge", the secondary tournament area.
Among them are Jonathan Clark, Daniel Wilson, David Urban and Niall Farrell. Clark is no longer the biggest stack, as Urban has more than him. And then there is also Franck Makaci, who registered at the last minute and managed to spin up his stack a lot. The latest hand saw him bet 4,500 on the turn after Wilson checked out of the big blind.
Both then checked the river and Wilson showed for queen-high with a ten kicker. Makaci had the for the better kicker and claimed the pot.
Niall Farrell is down to less than 10 big blinds. The Scotsman bet the turn for 2,600 and the big blind check-called before Farrell then checked behind the river. He turned over king-queen and the big blind had for a full house.
On the heads-up flop of , Alejandro Perez Torres got the remainder of his short stack in with and fellow countryman Javier Zarco looked him up with . The turn and river were both blanks and Perez Torres was eliminated. He exchanged a few quick words with Zarco before leaving the table and Morten Mortensen followed him on the way out a few minutes later from the very same table.