2022 UKIPT London
Gary Solomons escaped from elimination when his button shove with the ![]()
was called by Sebastian Gohr with the ![]()
in the big blind. The ![]()
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flop improved Gohr but Solomons got there on the
turn, the
river was a brick.
Daniel Field then got his stack of 180,000 in from the cutoff and he was looked up by Mauricio Ferreira Pais from one seat over.
It was a big flip with the ![]()
for Field and the ![]()
of Ferreira Pais. The ![]()
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board was the end of the road of Field and he was sent out in 58th place. Sebastian Skurzynski then followed shortly after and that reduced the field to the final 56 hopefuls.
Tim Slater took a flip with ![]()
against the ![]()
of Michael Ramiro, who flat-called on the button and the blinds folded.
The board came ![]()
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and Slater was back in the mix.
Soon after, the next shove by Slater for 100,000 was looked up by Ahamed Mohamed.
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Slater came from behind once more thanks to the ![]()
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board.
Robert Boon also prevailed with the ![]()
when he flipped for his tournament life. Florian Duta came along with the ![]()
but suffered a setback on the ![]()
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board.
Another two double ups followed before Paul Hizer was then sent to the payout desk.
Max Bashlawi raised in the hijack and was called by Kully Sidhu in the cutoff. Nikolay Ponomarev then three-bet out of the small blind and Bashlawi was the only caller. The flop fell ![]()
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and Ponomarev bet 40,000, Bashlawi jammed and Ponomarev called.
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Nikolay Ponomarev: ![]()
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The
turn improved Bashlawi but the
river gate Ponomarev the broadway straight. Both stacks were counted and the 218,000 of Ponomarev covered to eliminate Bashlawi.
Florian Duta came back from very few blinds and got at least one shove through. He then raised to 16,000 and called all-in when Daniel Field pushed out of the small blind.
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board almost completed a straight but Duta doubled.
Robert Boon then got it in via open-shove for 74,000 with the ![]()
and Field called on the button with the ![]()
. A sigh by Field was the result after the ![]()
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board delivered yet another double for the player at risk.
In a case of deja vu, Julien Sitbon had increased his stack to then take on an opponent in the bottom half of the leaderboard for yet another preflop contest. This happened to be Paul Trotter in the cutoff, who got it in for 125,000.
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board improved Trotter and Sitbon dropped back below half a million in chips.
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
The remaining 60 players have been sent into a scheduled 15-minute break. Day 2 will play a maximum of ten levels or down to the final table and four levels have concluded so far.
Tim Slater took several hits after he was moved tables and the latest one put a big dent into his stack as he clashed with Min Ji in a preflop flip.
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The dreadful ace appeared right away on the ![]()
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flop, the
turn and
river then changed nothing anymore. Ji doubled for 126,000 and Slater was reduced to around ten blinds for the next level.
Sebastian Skurzynski was also reduced to a short stack when he raised the button to 15,000 and then called the shove by Masoud Etemadiherisi in the big blind for 65,000.
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board kept Etemadiherisi in the mix as he surpassed Skurzynski on the leaderboard.
Dan Wilson and Georgios Sarafalntin were the next two players sent to the rail and Vishal Maini all but joined them. He three-bet jammed a short stack with the ![]()
and was looked up by the initial raiser Henrik Hecklen, who tabled the ![]()
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flop changed nothing yet but Hecklen took the lead on the
turn. However, there was one further twist as the
river improved Maini to a set of sixes.