Ihar Soika was facing a 10,300 bet from rising Spanish star Sergio Aido on a board of . It had been checked on the flop and Soika was deep in the tank. Too deep for some players it seemed as time was called and the floor gave him the full countdown. Well, almost full as he folded with one second to spare. Aido flashed him his cards and after some protest had to show the table his .
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The top of the leaderboard is changing rapidly. Tatu Maenpaa, Mario Nagel, and EPT8 Loutraki Main Event champion Zimnan Ziyard led the way after the dinner break — meet all three over on the PokerStars blog. Meanwhile others have now caught that trio and are beginning to push in front with Chris Day of the U.K. now closing in on the 200,000-chip mark here during the day's final level.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Mihai Manole | Eliminado | |
Yulius Sepman | Eliminado | |
Shaun Hegarty | Eliminado | |
Pawel Brzeski | Eliminado | |
Alban Messe
|
Eliminado | |
Simon Peterka
|
Eliminado | |
Alexander Reard
|
Eliminado | |
Jose Alastuey
|
Eliminado | |
Frank Kalfon
|
Eliminado |
Down to a short stack Jorge Ufano moved all-in with and was looked up by Jean-Yves Malherbe who had . A board later and Ufano was on his way.
143 of 234 players remain and the average stack is 49,100.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Chris Day | 195,000 | |
Alessio Isaia |
140,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
Anton Wigg |
127,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
||
Tatu Maenpaa |
120,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Barny Boatman |
83,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
||
Eugene Katchalov |
83,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
||
Alberto Fiorilla |
79,000
79,000
|
79,000 |
Vit Blachut |
69,000
49,400
|
49,400 |
Marcin Horecki |
68,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
||
Keith Johnson |
65,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
Dominik Nitsche |
59,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Zimnan Ziyard |
58,000
-47,000
|
-47,000 |
|
||
Morten Mortensen |
48,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Fergal Nealon |
44,000
-29,000
|
-29,000 |
Lasse Frost |
37,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Dermot Blain |
34,500
1,500
|
1,500 |
John O'Shea |
24,400
-13,600
|
-13,600 |
Shyam Srinivasan |
19,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
Olof Haglund opened the hijack to 1,400 and just Yoni Journo in the big blind made the call.
Haglund fired three bullets at his French opponent. 1,900 on the flop, 4,500 on the turn and 9,000 on the river. Journo check called the flop and turn but eventually folded the river after some heavy thinking.
Haglund is now nearing the 100,000 mark with little less than an hour of play left for the day.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Olof Haglund |
93,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
Seven Frenchmen and one Dutchman comprised the final table of the mammoth France Poker Series Main Event at EPT Deauville.
One guess who won.
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Paul Hoefer has got his head above water after doubling up with pocket aces. He was all-in pre-flop for 22,000 with and looking to hold against Omar Idder's . The board ensured he did just that. So he's up to roughly 47,000 whilst Idder slips to 4,000.
From under-the-gun Alex Goulder made it 1,200 to play, it folded to Christopher Frank on the button and the German raised to 3,600. Back on Goulder he smooth called and the flop came , Goulder checked, Frank bet 4,000 and Goulder called his bet.
The fell on the turn and the pattern repeated itself, this time Goulder check-called a bet of 7,900. The completed a backdoor flush draw and both players were happy to check it down, Goulder showed to claim the pot. He climbs to roughly 70,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Alex Goulder | 70,000 |
We're now into the last level of the day and Chris Day is the current chip leader. The Brit has 195,000 after winning a 100k pot against an unknown opponent. "There was an open to 1,000, I made it 2,600 to go with queens, the guy to my left (points to empty seat) made it 7,100, I raised to 17,700 and he moved in for 48,000 with ace-king, I called and queens held," he told PokerNews.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Chris Day |
195,000
92,000
|
92,000 |