Half an hour before end of play on Day 3, he tweeted: "Helps to be winning huge flips on tv table. 300k pot my AK > QQ in cold 4b pot, aipre. #EPTLondon. 634k @2400bb 20min left 4 tday".
Best live result to date was 2nd in an EPT Prague €300 NL Turbo in Season 8 for €12,500 but has numerous big online scores in Sunday Majors and $50 NL Turbos. Lived in the USA for much of his 20s, playing a lot of NLH in poker rooms in New Mexico. He returned to Romania in 2006 where he finished college, graduating in Finance and Accounting. He then started playing a lot of poker, both live and online, especially on PokerStars.
Numerous results in the Sunday Majors, which he plays under the name "a.S.e High", include second in the Sunday500, Sunday WarmUp, won the Big 100, $100R etc. He also won the Super Tuesday in 2012 for $77,000, which is his biggest online cash.
Love sports of all kinds especially water sports like windsurfing and waterskiing, also passionate about
motorbikes and Formula 1 – describes his “1000 Aprilia Tuono” motorbike as his second passion after poker.
A big hand just took place at the outer table. By the time we arrived action had completed and Andy Moseley was exiting the tournament floor.
From what we could piece together he called off his last 270,000 or so on the river with a board reading . Moseley, a well-known cash game player in London and Macau, had the out in front of him. Unfortunately for him, Martin Kozlov held the for a bigger flush.
We're not sure of the preflop action, but we do know that Nicky Katz, who had been grinding a short stack all day, got his last 160,000 all in preflop holding the and was up against the of Candido Goncalves. It was a flip, but in this instance Katz would come up empty handed as the board ran out a dry .
Katz smiled, shook hands with Goncalves, and then made his way to the payout desk in 20th place.
Heads-up on a board and Tudor Purice fired out a bet of 57,000. Robin Ylitalo made the call to see the on the turn.
Purice now checked and the Swede fired out a bet of 102,000 before Purice check-raised to 256,000. Ylitalo carefully considered his options and then made the call.
Both players then checked the on the river. Ylitalo turned over , a flush draw that had made top pair and that was enough to win the pot.
Action folded to Nicolau Villa-Lobos on the button and he shoved for 160,000. The small blind folded and Georgios Karakousis made a quick call from the big.
Villa-Lobos:
Karakousis:
The in the window looked good for Villa-Lobos, but the and that followed it on the flop did not. Karakousis flopped trips and left Villa-Lobos in need of an ace. The turn was not it, but as you can tell from the title of this post, the river was; in fact, it was the !
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flop, Nicolau Villa-Lobos check-raised Thomas Muhlocker's 26,000 bet to 56,000.
where both players checked.
and Villa-Lobos moved all in for his last 200,000 or so. Muhlocker called with 
but it was no good vs Villa-Lobos 
.
out in front of him. Unfortunately for him, Martin Kozlov held the 
for a bigger flush.
and was up against the 
.
and Watts picked up a gutshot, the 
board and Tudor Purice fired out a bet of 57,000. Robin Ylitalo made the call to see the 
on the turn.
on the river. Ylitalo turned over 
turn was not it, but as you can tell from the title of this post, the river was; in fact, it was the