Steven Comte just took a chunk out of John Eames by winning a pot worth just over 20,000 against the Englishman.
I joined the action with a board of on the felt and just over 8,000 in the pot. Comte (small blind) checked it over to Eames (under-the-gun+1) and he too rapped the table. The completed the board, Comte bet 6,250 and Eames then began to think it over. He cut his stack down, rechecked his cards and then took 6,250 out of his stack and counted what he had left.
Another 30 seconds passed during which Eames looked at Comte, almost unsure of what to do. Eventually he settled on calling, but he'll have wished he hadn't as Comte showed to take the pot. Eames is down to roughly 16,000.
Joseph Carlino was looking very happy with himself and well he might as he just eliminated Mario Adinolfi. The latter was all-in pre-flop for roughly 3,000 (he had a big tower of green T25 chips) with and was up against Carlino's . The pair held as the board ran .
There was a board reading and three players were still in the pot. Nikita Nikolaev bet 1,1800 from the big blind and was raised by Artem Metalidi from the Hi Jack to 4,200. Just to make it interesting Oleh Okhotskyi called from the small blind. Back on Nikolaev who now made it 7,600. Would that get rid of one of them? No. They both called to see a river card. . It was checked to Metalidi who asked for a count of the shorter stack Okhotskyi’s chips and got an answer of around 13k. He bet 7,225 and after a bit of thought Okhotskyi called with Nikolaev still to act behind. Nikolaev folded and when Metalidi showed his full house Okhotskyi nodded and slid his cards forward to fold.
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With as a flop two players had checked to Mario Nagel. The German player, who made the final table of EPT Campione back in 2012 (sixth for €92,000), bet 2,450. The first player made the call but the other player made it 10,000 to go. This anonymous player, free of any id-number unfortunately, received a call from Nagel, the other player folded.
The player now asked how much Nagel had behind as the dealer put the on the turn spot. The player now moved in, effectively putting Nagel all in for his tournament life. Nagel had 44,100 in total and after some thinking he made the call. The player turned over for top pair, a flush draw and a gutshot. Nagel had for the overpair. According to the PokerNews Poker Odds Calculator Nagel had 55% chance of winning.
"Hold!" he shouted, "Hold!"
The river was the and Nagel shouted "Boom!" through the room. "Yeah!" was the follow up as he gathered all the chips.
PokerNews decided to stop by the respective tables of Eugene Katchalov and Marcin Horecki to see how they were getting on. They both won pots whilst PokerNews were there, with Katchalov having to work harder to do so.
He opened to 700 from under-the-gun+1 and Luca Dal Cerro called from the big blind. The flop checked through, Dal Cerro then bet 1,000 on the turn and Katchalov made the call. The fell on fifth street, Dal Cerro came out betting again, this time the price was 1,700. It was a price Katchalov liked as he swiftly called and just as quickly Del Cerro flung his cards face down into the muck.
As for Horecki, he too made it 700 to play, but from the cut-off, everyone folded to this bet, including the big blind who showed as he did so. With that small gain Horecki is up to 43,000.
on the felt and just over 8,000 in the pot. Comte (small blind) checked it over to Eames (under-the-gun+1) and he too rapped the table. The 
completed the board, Comte bet 6,250 and Eames then began to think it over. He cut his stack down, rechecked his cards and then took 6,250 out of his stack and counted what he had left.
to take the pot. Eames is down to roughly 16,000.
and was up against Carlino's 
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and three players were still in the pot. Nikita Nikolaev bet 1,1800 from the big blind and was raised by Artem Metalidi from the Hi Jack to 4,200. Just to make it interesting Oleh Okhotskyi called from the small blind. Back on Nikolaev who now made it 7,600. Would that get rid of one of them? No. They both called to see a river card. 
. It was checked to Metalidi who asked for a count of the shorter stack Okhotskyi’s chips and got an answer of around 13k. He bet 7,225 and after a bit of thought Okhotskyi called with Nikolaev still to act behind. Nikolaev folded and when Metalidi showed his 
full house Okhotskyi nodded and slid his cards forward to fold.![[user76023]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
quickly confirmed his exit.
and Nagel shouted "Boom!" through the room. "Yeah!" was the follow up as he gathered all the chips.
fell on fifth street, Dal Cerro came out betting again, this time the price was 1,700. It was a price Katchalov liked as he swiftly called and just as quickly Del Cerro flung his cards face down into the muck.
as he did so. With that small gain Horecki is up to 43,000.
