Lo Shing Fung decided to limp from early position and Chistoph Vogelsang raised to 35,000 from the hijack. Igor Kurganov was in the small blind and he cold four-bet to 115,000. Fung took some time to relinquish his investment but fold he did.
Vogelsang made the call in position and the two players saw a flop of
Kurganov continued for 105,000 after some thought and Vogelsang also took his time before calling and they saw a turn card .
The following action took several minutes to play out as they both checked the turn and saw a river card now putting four spades out there. A check from Kurganov and a 200,000 bet from Vogelsang brought a close to the hand as the pot was pushed the way of the Vogelsang.
On a flop of , Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu bet 36,000 from the hijack and received a call from Team Online's Isaac Haxton, who was on the button. The turn saw Haxton call a bet of 85,000, and then the completed the board on the river.
Negreanu fired out 210,000, and then Haxton asked for Negreanu to show.
"Why? I never do that," Negreanu laughed. He then tabled the much to the amusement of the entire table. "Once in a blue moon you have to steam."
Ping San Chan opened under the gun plus one for 30,000. Ole Schemion made it 91,000 from the small blind and San Chan made the call.
Schemion fired 100,000 on , and 255,000 on the -turn. San Chan called on the flop, but gave up on the turn. The two chip leaders from the tournament are getting closer to each other.
Team PokerStars Online's Ike Haxton raised to 24,000 preflop before Antonio Esfandiari three-bet to 60,000 in the seat next to him. Paul Phua flat-called but then Richard Yong moved all in from the blinds for 311,000.
Haxton and Esfandiari both quickly folded but Phua couldn't bring himself to give up his hand and made the call.
Phua:
Yong:
The board came and Yong doubled up to nearly 700,000.
"Nice hand Richard," said someone at the table.
Yong laughed, "Everybody knows how to play kings!"
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is nearing an end, and as you know players have been accumulating 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 have been 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.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard. As you can see, Ole Schemion is running away with it and is a near lock to lay claim to the title.
Ole Schemion
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
1,086.33 pts
2
Thomas Muhloecker
822.45 pts
3
Vanessa Selbst
803.87 pts
4
Alex Bilokur
794.40 pts
5
Adrian Mateos
644.24 pts
6
Dominik Panka
608.60 pts
7
Jeff Rossiter
590.27 pts
8
Andrew Chen
589.60 pts
9
David Vamplew
578.07 pts
10
Oleksii Khoroshenin
577.93 pts
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
Justin Bonomo shoved allin under the gun for 119,000. Directly next to him it was Chun Lei Zhou who made the call. All other players quickly folded, and Bonomo got the bad news.
Chun Lei Zhou:
Justin Bonomo:
The -flop made for some "chopportunities", and the on the turn gave Bonomo even more outs. The on the river wasn't one of them though, and the former champion exited the stage.
To balance the tables, none other than Daniel Negreanu made his way to the centre stage.
Team PokerStars Online player Isaac Haxton opened from early position for 36,000, a slightly larger bet sizing than the standard table open in recent hands.
It folded round to Olivier Busquet who moved all in and was instantly called by Haxton. Busquet had found in his blind but had run into the of Haxton.
The cards ran out . Busquets spiked his jack right off the bat and remained ahead to double up and stay in the tournament.
Jennifer Robles found a cheerful PokerStars Team Pro Daniel Negreanu at the start of the second break. He provides valuable tips on how to play poker, along with his take on not just the record-breaking turnout, but the young players who have decided to shell out 100,000 Euros.
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now putting four spades out there. A check from Kurganov and a 200,000 bet from Vogelsang brought a close to the hand as the pot was pushed the way of the Vogelsang.
, Bonomo check-raised allin with 
. Sorel Mizzi, who had made a 22,000 continuation bet and now called all in for 174,000, had 
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on the turn and 
on the river, and had to forfeit a big portion of his chips.
completed the board on the river.
much to the amusement of the entire table. "Once in a blue moon you have to steam."
, and 255,000 on the 
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on the turn gave Bonomo even more outs. The 
on the river wasn't one of them though, and the former champion exited the stage.
in his blind but had run into the 
. Busquets spiked his jack right off the bat and remained ahead to double up and stay in the tournament.