She already won the Ladies' Event earlier this week but Jamila von Perger has clearly not finished yet. She just eliminated Philippe Olivier, albeit with a stroke of luck.
von Perger:
Olivier:
The board ran out and von Perger's flush took the pot while the Frenchman left, muttering to himself.
The cutoff opened to 3,500 with a 45,000 stack and Marco Della Tommasina made it 10,000 to go from the button with a 60,000 stack. The big blind had just one big blind left so he wasn't a big threat to Paul Berende who was seated in the small blind with and a stack big enough to cover everyone.
Berende decided to push all in, effectively putting everyone else at risk but himself. The big blind had no other choice and called, the cutoff folded. Della Tommasina on the button however made the call with kings and won the entire thing.
Berende didn't seem all that happy with his play in the hand. Luckily for him he still has around 75,000 left.
Just 234 players remain and among those to have lost their chips during Level 11 were: Kevin MacPhee, Ignat Liviu, Mihails Morozovs, Cathal Shine, Antoine Labat, Rabah Ait-Abdelmalek, Konstantin Puchkov, Romain Maulin, Jean-Baptiste Loll, Walter Buss, Ozgur Arda, Raffaele Sorrentino...
Diogo Cardoso, Yovan Jeauneaux, Jeremy Nock, Allan Tirel, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, Jean-Francois Rial, Gisle Olsen, Nikita Nikolaev, Emile Petit, Arunas Sapitavicius, Vojtech Ruzicka, Frederic Vacher, Gareth Teatum, Patrick Nataf, Juri Zaprudnov, Pascal Vos, Patrick Sacrispeyre, Anthony Faisca, Adam Ashadally, Fabian Laute and Robert Haigh.
Bruno"Kool Shen" Lopes opened for 3,200 and the blinds, including small blind Jack Melki called. They saw a flop of and all three players checked. The turn card was the and Melki bet out 5,000. The big blind folded and Melki started giving Lopes the death stare. Maybe he didn’t notice because he called the bet. The River was the . Lopes bet 12,000. Now a bit of an argument broke out in French and it seemed to be about whether Melki had checked or not. To end the matter Melki called the bet and showed to win the pot as Lopes couldn’t beat it. Order was swiftly restored.
PokerStars player Sofia Lovgren moved all in but when Mario Nagel re-shoved from the small blind she sensed she was in trouble. Indeed she was, her was dominated by the . The board ran out and she said goodbye to the table and the tournament.
Want to see more of Sofia? Check out our interview with her earlier in the day:
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here. Best French player? Erwann Pecheux in the number 92 spot.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard (last updated Jan. 28, 2014):
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
781.39
2
Vanessa Selbst
736.22
3
Thomas Muhlocker
594.30
4
Georgios Karakousis
512.31
5
Mike McDonald
490.74
6
Jonathan Little
480.01
7
Kenny Hallaert
416.40
8
Andrew Chen
414.18
9
Max Silver
412.50
10
Jeff Rossiter
408.43
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
The whooping and hollering of Anthony Lerust drew a whole host of people to his table - and with good reason. Lerust had just outdrawn Jerzy Zarebski's with his own in a huge pot.
Lerust was all-in for 105,900 and the vast majority of Zarebski's stack was pushed across to the Frenchman after the river of the board. Lerust began high-fiving several people on his rail while Zarebski couldn't only sit quietly and contemplate his fate.
A fast start on Day 2 has quickly pushed Dutch player Paul Berende near the top of the counts. Berende is looking to make a move up another leaderboard, too, as he sits just inside the top 20 in the current EPT10 Player of the Year rankings. Laura Cornelius caught up with Berende to talk about his career thus far, one marked by both online and live successes. Read and watch over on the PokerStars blog.