On a board we picked up the action between Mike McDonald and Kambiz Kashi. McDonald checked to Kashi who bet 11,000 into a 16,000 chip pot. The youngest EPT winner ever finally made the call leaving himself with just 7,800. Kashi showed and took down the pot.
The very next hand McDonald raised to 3,500 from the button after which he got his chips in against Kashi who was in the big blind.
Mike McDonald
Kambiz Kashi
The board ran out giving McDonald the win and the much needed double up.
Mike McDonald couldn't make a comeback after having a very rough start. The Canadian got his last chips in, according to his former opponents, with against a set of sevens on . No help for McDonald who missed out on a cash by two tables.
After his table broke as we got down to 36 players Sam Trickett got moved to table 78. Trickett took McDonald's old seat right next to Dermot Blain and close to Shannon Shorr and Michele Di Lauro. The warm welcome didn't come from either of those players, it was Konstantin Uspenskiy who put the pressure on him.
Uspenskiy is been having a great day so far and we just witnessed two pots he won. In the first one the board read when he called a 9,200 bet from Salim Boukrouma who is sitting to directly to his right. The river was the and both players checked. Boukrouma showed but that couldn't beat Uspenskiy's .
The very next hand Uspenskiy raised to 2,400 from the under the gun +1 position and got three-bet by Trickett who was was in the cut-off. The Brit had re-raised to 7,000 and Uspenskiy asked the dealer what a pot size four-bet would cost him. The Russian quickly threw in 17,500 which was considerably less. Trickett called and gave us heads-up flop action.
The flop was and Uspenskiy immediately announced a pot bet. Trickett smiled and folded as he was left with 86,000 chips.
Unfortunately we didn't catch the pre-river action but on a {Kc] board Erich Kollmann threw out a pot sized 14,300 bet. Stein was talking to himself saying things like, "There's only one hand that beats me. This is so silly".
"I'm sorry guys," he apologized after a couple of minutes for his long tanking. The rest of the table gave Stein all the time in the world and eventually he folded his cards giving Kollmann the pot. "If you bet 9,000 I'm calling 100%. This bet is either the best or the worst," Stein said as Kollmann was quietly stacking the chips.
Stein is one of the short stacks in the room while Kollmann is cruising.
Salim Boukrouma has just doubled up through Sam Trickett and Jelassi Ramzi has just doubled up through Randy Dorfman.
"Well played," said Dorfman.
"I was ahead," said Ramzi.
"At what point on that flop did you think you were ahead? What Maths school did you go to?" Asked Dorfman.
"I dropped out," replied Ramzi
Dimitry Motorov raised to 1,700 in middle position, Elie Payans called in the cut-off, Michel Abecassis called in the small blind before David Williams three-bet to 13,500 in the big blind. Motorov and Payans made the call and Abecassis folded.
board we picked up the action between Mike McDonald and Kambiz Kashi. McDonald checked to Kashi who bet 11,000 into a 16,000 chip pot. The youngest EPT winner ever finally made the call leaving himself with just 7,800. Kashi showed 
and took down the pot.
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against a set of sevens on 
. No help for McDonald who missed out on a cash by two tables.
when he called a 9,200 bet from Salim Boukrouma who is sitting to directly to his right. The river was the 
and both players checked. Boukrouma showed 
and Uspenskiy immediately announced a pot bet. Trickett smiled and folded as he was left with 86,000 chips.
