Leo McClean has been nursing a short stack and recently pushed it in from the hijack with the . Georgios Karakousis called the 400,000 with the on the button, and both blinds folded.
McClean, who has a massive rail here at the feature table, needed some help to stay alive, and he found some on the flop. McLean, who is playing his first major live tournament and eliminated Phil Hellmuth on Day 2, paired his nine and flopped an open-ended straight draw. Neither the turn nor river provided Karakousis the ace he needed and McClean doubled through.
If you've been watching any of this tournament, then you'll have noticed one thing about Ludovic Geilich. When he has chips, he doesn't slow down, he raises and reraises and re-reraises and doesn't stop.
Georgios Karakousis opened to 120,000 with . Geilich then three-bet to 250,000 holding but then Stefan Vagner woke up with a real hand and made it 500,000 holding . Karakousis got out of the way but Geilich proved more obstinate and instead decided to five-bet to 845,000.
Vagner moved all in and Geilich instantly folded - all the chips he had just won from Sjavik's elimination have disappeared.
Jan Olav Sjavik moved all in from UTG with . In the next seat, Ludovic Geilich held and got a count. Geilich made the call, Robin Ylitalo folded behind them and Leo McClean folded as well.
The Scots chanted for a nine and once again they got their wishes as there was a nine in the door. The board came and Sjavik who finished 3rd here seven years ago went out in 7th place this time - good for nearly £90,000.
Georgios Karakousis raised to 120,000 from UTG holding and Stefan Vagner made the call from the cutoff with .
The flop was , Karakousis flopped two a double gutshot and two overcards while Vagner flopped a set. Karakousis bet 150,000 and Vagner made it 450,000 to go.
Karakousis called then checked the turn across to Vagner who checked behind.
The came on the river and Karakousis checked again, Vagner quickly bet 450,000 and Karakousis called. Vagner show his set and chipped up to 3.5 million.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Place
Player
Points
1
David Benefield
321.18 pts
2
Thomas Muhlocker
254.55 pts
3
Ole Schemion
240.65
4
Joao Barbosa
220.20 pts
5
Jonathan Duhamel
195.58 pts
6
Joni Jouhkimainen
193.11 pts
7
Lukasz Roczniak
185.51 pts
8
Tom Middleton
181.74 pts
9
Kevin Vandersmissen
173.42 pts
10
Oleksii Khoroshenin
166.89 pts
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race at each of the EPT stops, so be sure to keep an eye out for those in future events.
Is this a change of fortune for the well-supported Ludovic Geilich as he doubled up. Perhaps. But the chances of Kully Sidhu winning in London were just halted, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Ludovic Geilich raised to 100,000 from the cutoff with the speculative , Robin Ylitalo made it 240,000 in the small blind holding . Geilich gave it a bit of Hollywooding but then folded.
Leo McClean raised to 100,000 from the button with , Jeff Rossiter reraised to 275,000 from the small blind holding . [Removed:17] on the commentary said he wished Rossiter had made the three-bet a little smaller to give McClean more room to move all in. McClean folded to the Australian and remained the short stack.
. Georgios Karakousis called the 400,000 with the 
on the button, and both blinds folded.
flop. McLean, who is playing his first major live tournament and eliminated Phil Hellmuth on Day 2, paired his nine and flopped an open-ended straight draw. Neither the 
turn nor 
river provided Karakousis the ace he needed and McClean doubled through.![[user76023]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
. Geilich then three-bet to 250,000 holding 
but then Stefan Vagner woke up with a real hand and made it 500,000 holding 
. Karakousis got out of the way but Geilich proved more obstinate and instead decided to five-bet to 845,000.
. In the next seat, Ludovic Geilich held 
as well.
and Stefan Vagner made the call from the cutoff with 
.
, Karakousis flopped two a double gutshot and two overcards while Vagner flopped a set. Karakousis bet 150,000 and Vagner made it 450,000 to go.
came on the river and Karakousis checked again, Vagner quickly bet 450,000 and Karakousis called. Vagner show his set and chipped up to 3.5 million.
, Robin Ylitalo made it 240,000 in the small blind holding 
. Geilich gave it a bit of Hollywooding but then folded.
