The was a mound of chips in the middle, two players in the hand and a board reading . Action was on under-the-gun player Eli Heath who cut out a stack of grey T5000 chips and riffled them together into one tower. He then added some yellow T1000 chips for good measure and slid out a bet of 80,000. It evidently wasn’t what his opponent Kamel Boukhalfa wanted to see as he started squirming in his chair causing his tablet to crash the floor. He retrieved it and asked his opponent if he had ace jack. Heath didn’t move. Boukhalfa counted out the call. Fold and he still had a playable stack. Call and lose and he would be crippled. If he won however….
Big decision, and it did take quite a while, but Boukhalfa made a frustrated fold.
Friend of PokerStars and all round poker legend Pierre Neuville is still in with a short stack of 50,000. He moved all in UTG+1 and picked up the blinds and antes. Next hand he raised 7,600 and did the same. Unfortunately for him he had to fold his big and small blind to raises on the next two hands.
A big coinflip just went the way of two-time bracelet winner JP Kelly. The Englishman's beat Niels van Leeuwen's on a board for a huge pot worth around 175,000.
Van Leeuwen wasn't too sad, he had already won the FPS Main Event for around €175,000 early this week.
Ayaz Manji opened for 7,100 under-the gun and was three-bet by the player to his left, Jeffrey Hakim, to 22,200. Everyone else folded and Manji asked to see how much he had behind which was about 30,000. Manji gave it a bit of a dwell up and folded. He then started giving a speech about how he folded and that it was: “Well played by me, donkey play by you.” Promising that next time he would call him. Hakim took it in good spirits though and it was hugs all round.
Jonathan Abdellatif started the day fifth in chips with 351,700 and he's continued where he left of yesterday, namely upwards. He and Kamel Boukhalfa are having a running battle and they just played two pots in a row.
In the first Abdellatif opened to 6,000 and called after Boukhalfa three-bet to 17,000 from the big blind. On the flop Boukhalfa checked, Abdellatif bet 19,300 and a frustrated Boukhalfa uncapped his cards before peaking at them and folding.
One hand later Abdellatif was first in again, he raised to 6,000 and this time Boukhalfa elected to smooth call from the small blind. The flop was checked through and the hit the turn. First to act Boukhalfa fired out a bet of 6,000 and it was good enough to take the pot.
Despite that small dent Abdellatif is up to roughly 429,000.
Carlo De Benedittis moved all in for his last 20,000 and was looked up by the big blind, PokerStars player Paul Berende who flipped over . De Benedittis had and so was marginally ahead. Not for long though as the flop came . De Benedittis would need some help and the turn and river duly delivered an improbable straight. De Benedittis gave a little “Yes.” Relieved to have survived.
There were two Johnson's in the field at the start of play - Mitch and Keith- but sadly the former has just busted out and was kind enough to tell us how: "I opened with A-Q and a guy peeled. I check-raised the Q-10-5 flop and jammed the 8 turn and he had J-9."
. Action was on under-the-gun player Eli Heath who cut out a stack of grey T5000 chips and riffled them together into one tower. He then added some yellow T1000 chips for good measure and slid out a bet of 80,000. It evidently wasn’t what his opponent Kamel Boukhalfa wanted to see as he started squirming in his chair causing his tablet to crash the floor. He retrieved it and asked his opponent if he had ace jack. Heath didn’t move. Boukhalfa counted out the call. Fold and he still had a playable stack. Call and lose and he would be crippled. If he won however….
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from middle position but Andrew Sweeney made the call behind him with 
and there were no surprises on the 
board.
e o adversário 
e Félix está fora do torneio.
beat Niels van Leeuwen's 
on a 
board for a huge pot worth around 175,000.
and that it was: “Well played by me, donkey play by you.” Promising that next time he would call him. Hakim took it in good spirits though and it was hugs all round.
hit the turn. First to act Boukhalfa fired out a bet of 6,000 and it was good enough to take the pot.
. De Benedittis had 
and so was marginally ahead. Not for long though as the flop came 
and river 
e Matias apostou, o adversário foi all in e com 80,000 no inicio da mão, o português fez call.