Eduard Bhaggoe, this seasons EPT Barcelona seventh place finisher, was just sent home.
He lost a big hand with pre flop all in versus . Bhaggoe, as always smiling like he's the most fortunate man on earth, told us that an eight had hit the board.
The last of his chips he lost with king queen against pocket sixes. He hit a queen but his opponent made runner runner flush with the .
Bhaggoe was already checking out the schedule for the €2,000 tournament this afternoon. He'll have to wait a little bit more for that one though, that starts in two hours.
Friend of PokerStars Natalie Hof opened for 2,000 and was raised by Thomas Miller. With everyone else folding she shoved and he snapped he off with . Hof held obviously needed some help from the deck. It was not to come though as the cards ran out .
Jasper Wetemans doubled up his countryman Mateusz Moolhuizen quite early on today. Wetemans had lost a blind battle with ace deuce against Moolhuizen's jacks but would soon get those chips back. At one point Wetemans had just 3,000 chips left. He worked that back up to 11,000 and tripled that up in a big hand.
He shoved the button with pocket fours and received a call from Moolhuizen in the small blind. The big blind reshoved and Moolhuizen called once again. Wetemans was the underdog with , Moolhuizen had and the big blind held . Wetemans would be the luckiest ( flop), the big blind second luckiest ( turn), and Moolhuizen the unluckiest (blank on the river) in this big confrontation.
Wetemans back over starting stack, Moolhuizen out.
Having started the day with just over 20 big blinds Morten Mortensen was always going to need an early double up to get a playable stack. He found a hand he liked and got them in with , unfortunately for him Roman Wieviorka found at the same time. The board kept Wieviorka in front and Mortensen was on his way.
A big pot was playing out on table four and it had reached the river. There was roughly 65,000 in the pot and a complete board of on the felt, Omar Lakhdari (small blind) had checked it over to Alain Bauer and he was mulling over his decision.
The two players were bantering back and forth in French and from what I could gather Lakhdari was telling Bauer that if he moved all-in then he would snap call. Someone else at the table snapped first though and called the clock as he felt Bauer was taking too long. A floor staff member arrived and informed Bauer he had one minute to act, during this minute Bauer asked Lakhdari again if he would snap call should he move all-in and Lakhdari nodded.
A few seconds later Bauer moved all-in for 44,600 and there was no snap call. Instead Lakhdari asked for a count and then cut out the calling chips from his stack. He had roughly 110,000 in total and then began tanking himself. After less than 90 seconds Bauer called the clock, but the floor staff - who knows both players - told Bauer that Lakhdari had not had sufficient time for the clock to be called. Another 45 seconds passed and Lakhdari elected to fold, Bauer triumphantly showed for a gutsy bluff as he took the pot.
One of the (very) few saving graces of having someone dramatically outdraw you is that they'll often have to sit there sheepish for a good few minutes and look silly.
Arunas Sapitavicius had opened to 2,000 preflop from the button before Paul Hoefer made it 4,500 in the big blind. Sapitavicius made it 7,700 and Hoefer moved all in. Instant call. Hoefer loked sheepish.
Sapitavicius:
Hoefer:
The board ran out and Hoefer made a full house to survive while looking suitably embarrassed about getting so lucky.
Fergal Nealon was chatting to Swedish PokerStrs Player Sofia Lovgren about the confusion over his name with Niall Farrell. Sofia introduced herself and shook Nealon’s hand. He knew who Lovgren was already of course. “I saw you on TV. EPT Barcelona. Getting chatted up by Daniel Negreanu.” Lovgren smiled and nodded.
A couple of hands later Lovgren opened for 1,700 and Nealon called on the button. The blinds folded and let them get on with it. A flop of and a continuation bet of 2,200 from Lovgren led to a fold from Nealon. Awwww.
Arkadiusz Peitsch had moved all in on the river of a and was instantly called by an opponent. Peitsch confidently showed but his opponent flipped having backdoored into a full house.
We ran into last years 22nd place finisher (€23,000) Freerk Post on the wrong side of the rail. Post had just been eliminated as he started out short already. He had called a small three bet with seven eight suited and check shipped on a board. Unfortunately for Post his opponent had pocket nines which left him almost drawing dead. No runner runner miracle for Post this time.
He can share bad beat stories with countryman Jochum Weenink. "Nothing went well today" Weenink said afterwards, though in slightly different wording.
Jasper Wetemans worked his stack back up to 5,000 but has a lot of catching up to do. Will he find another double up?
pre flop all in versus 
. Bhaggoe, as always smiling like he's the most fortunate man on earth, told us that an eight had hit the board.
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. Hof held 
obviously needed some help from the deck. It was not to come though as the cards ran out 
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flop), the big blind second luckiest (
, unfortunately for him Roman Wieviorka found 
at the same time. The 
board kept Wieviorka in front and Mortensen was on his way.
on the felt, Omar Lakhdari (small blind) had checked it over to Alain Bauer and he was mulling over his decision.
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and was instantly called by an opponent. Peitsch confidently showed 
