When I mean 'the fray' I mean the tournament, not the popular rock group The Fray (although I would definitely go and see them if Big Roger was part of the group).
Roger Hairabedian has joined the tournament after picking up the 'Poker Personality' trophy at last night's GPI European Poker Awards.
Artur Koren has been eliminated after he was all in preflop with against Marcin Wydrowski's . The board ran out and Koren was up, shaking hands, and heading to the rail.
There are had been a lot of preflop action between Sergey Pronin and former EPT winner Jannick Wrang, culminating in Wrang making a raise to 15,100 over the top of Pronin's 7,500 bet.
The Russian made the call but check-folded to a 10,800 bet on a flop of . Wrang couldn't resist showing to much mirth from the table.
Canadian Glen Cymbaluk has been knocked out. Aleksandr Denisov, who won a huge pot from Niall Farrell at the start of the day, has also been knocked out but has rebought into the tournament.
Michel tem estado bastante activo e quando estive com ele pela última vez disse-me que "joguei as últimas 15 mãos e ganhei 13, as duas que perdi eram as gordas!"
Dario Sammartino, the GPI player of the year for Italy, is the early chip leader in the High Roller event. On the river of a board, he set Ludovic Lacay all-in for the Frenchman last 15,000 or so chips. Lacay thought for about a minute then made the call and the Italian quickly turned over . Lacay sighed and mucked his hand, leaving the table.
Albert Daher is putting those new chips to good use. Emil Mattson opened for 800 got a call from Jean Tepper and small blind Daher made it 2,600 to go. They both made the call to see a flop of . Daher led out for 4,600 and the pot was his.
Albert Daher has made a tremendous recovery having only 6,500 a couple of hours ago. He just eliminated compatriot Ibrahim Ghassan with against all in preflop when the board came .
“I actually watched some of your videos last night.” Michael Tureniec said to the player on his left, Stephen Chidwick. We presume he means training videos. At least we hope so. “Oh really? I’ll have to do the exact opposite now.” Chidwick said. Training videos it was then. Phew.
They then played a pot together blind on blind. The flop was . Tureniec checked and called a bet from Chidwick for 1,500. The turn card was the and both players checked. The river was the . Tureniec bet 3,700 which got the fold from Chidwick.