Portugal's Nuno Da Camara began the day with 83,500 in chips, but he has yet to show up. It is unknown the reason, but he has been blinded all the way down to just 5,000 in chips with exactly one player to go before the money is reached. With his stack sitting in the cutoff seat, Da Camara has a few hands before he'll be all in.
German PokerStars player Thomas Butzhammer made it 8,000 to go, Antonio Brando in the small blind and big blind Kent Lundmark made the call. on the flop and when the blinds checked Butzhammer continued for 14,500. Lundmark made the only call. They both checked the turn and the final card made it very interesting for anyone with a diamond in their hand. Lundmark checked and Butzhammer decided to have another look at his hole cards. Whatever he found there he decided to bet 16,500 and Lundmark threw his hand away.
Each elimination carries more and more weight as we approach the bubble here in the EPT 10 Barcelona Main Event. After cries of an all in and a call were shouted through the tournament area, media and players alike swarmed the table to see the outcome of the action.
In this particular hand, Theodoros Aidonopoulos was all in before the flop holding and was racing for his tournament life against Pawel Brzeski's . The dealer brought forth a flop that read and Aidonopoulos quickly stood up out of his chair and took a few steps away from the table, seeing that his opponent had taken the lead with a pair of nines. The came on the turn which caused Aidonopoulos to pull out his phone, thumb through the messages and begin to walk away. He shot once final glance back to the felt to see the finish off the board and give Brzeski a winning two pair.
By absorbing Aidonopoulos' stack, Brzeski now sits at 190,000 here on the bubble.
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From the cutoff seat, Antonio Brando raised to 8,500. Chip leader Albert Daher was in the small blind, and he reraised to 22,500. After the big blind folded, action fell back on Brando. He reraised to 43,500, but that wasn't enough to scare Daher away. Instead, Daher reraised to 69,500. Brando studied, but eventually folded, and Daher won the pot. After Brando folded, Daher showed the .
Daher has over $450,000 in career earnings, with his largest score coming from just last month in August when he took second in the World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event for $160,200. The month before, Daher took second in the Merit World Cup of Poker Main Event for $137,299. He also has one World Series of Poker cash from 2012 and a cash in the European Poker Tour London Main Event last season for £15,000 after he took 28th place.
Rens Feenstra raised from early position, the button called, and the small blind called. The flop came down , and the small blind checked. Feenstra fired 18,000, and the button folded. The small blind also folded, and Feenstra picked up the pot to move to 640,000 in chips.
Rens Feenstra, a PokerStars player from the Netherlands, and Zsolt Vasvenszki, a qualifier from Hungary Saw a flop of . Feenstra bet, Vasvenszki raised and Feenstra moved all in. Vasvenszki called and showed for the flopped straight flush. Feenstra was drawing dead with his . The dealer went through the motions, the last two cards .
Russell Thomas was all in for 26,000 from the cutoff seat with the . Dermot Blain made the call from the big blind with the . The board ran out , and Thomas doubled up.