Philipp Gruissem opened to 16,000 preflop and Mike Watson called in the big blind with just 22,000 behind. The flop was 
, Watson checked and Gruissem wished him good luck before moving in.
Watson replied, "I call, I have trips."
Watson: 
Gruissem: 
The 
turn and 
river changed nothing and Watson survived the abyss.
A huge double up for David Peters, he shoved over the top of Anatoly Filatov's raise and got called.
Peters: 
Filatov: 
The board came 
and Peters was getting ready to flick his cards into the muck and leave but the 
popped up on the river and he survived.
A few players had concerns that some of the shorter stacks were taking too long to make decisions now they were two off the money bubble and it was slowing the game down on some tables. They wanted it to go hand for hand immediately rather than wait for one more player to get knocked out.
Scott Seiver put the case to the tournament director but it was turned down as it had never happened before and they didn’t want to set a precedent now, no matter what the special conditions. Instead the floor made an announcement that the position of the dealer button had been noted on each table and if one was taking significantly longer than the others there would potentially be a penalty for slow play. There was to be no deliberate stalling.
There will be one more player to lose, then there will be a table break and the tournament will go hand for hand until the bubble bursts.
Nível: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
In poker, it's all about taking. Taking risks, taking chips, and taking the lead for that first place prize. But what about giving back? Jennifer Robles spoke with some players who are interested in more than just money - using their winnings to help make the world a better place and they're encouraging ALL other players to do the same.
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| TABLE 1 | ||
| 1 | Benny Spindler | 638,000 |
| 2 | Benjamin Pollak | 98,000 |
| 3 | Angel Guillen | 127,000 |
| 4 | Stephen Chidwick | 345,000 |
| 5 | Alex Kravchenko | 119,000 |
| 6 | Calvin Anderson | 418,000 |
| 7 | Simon Higgins | 291,000 |
| TABLE 2 | ||
| 1 | Alex Bilokur | 166,000 |
| 2 | Andrew Chen | 148,000 |
| 3 | Anatoly Gurtovoy | 847,000 |
| 4 | Anatoly Filatov | 414,000 |
| 5 | David Peters | 66,000 |
| 6 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | 180,000 |
| 7 | Aleksei Platonov | 110,000 |
| TABLE 3 | ||
| 1 | Vasily Kylukin | 925,000 |
| 2 | Chenxiang Miao | 682,000 |
| 3 | Rui Cao | 778,000 |
| 4 | Scott Seiver | 129,000 |
| 5 | Adrian Mateos | 125,000 |
| 6 | Govert Metaal | 126,000 |
| 7 | Ole Schemion | 221,000 |
| TABLE 4 | ||
| 1 | Noah Schwartz | 241,000 |
| 2 | Antoine Berube | 122,000 |
| 3 | JC Alvarado | 150,000 |
| 4 | Pascal Lefrancois | 96,000 |
| 5 | Ismail Erkenov | 624,000 |
| 6 | Martin Finger | 660,000 |
| TABLE 5 | ||
| 1 | Philipp Gruissem | 289,000 |
| 2 | Davidi Kitai | 447,000 |
| 3 | Alexander Uskov | 139,000 |
| 4 | John Juanda | 293,000 |
| 5 | Mike Watson | 41,000 |
| 6 | Byron Kaverman | 431,000 |
Poker author and coach Tommy Angelo has returned with a new installment of his popular "Tilt for Beginners" series at Learn.PokerNews. Today's entry finds Tommy engaged in conversation with two characters who appear in his forthcoming book, Painless Poker. Here's how the story begins:
“What, precisely, is a bad beat?” said Alfonzo Calibri.
“A bad beat is when you lose a hand during which at some point you had a high statistical probability of winning the hand,” said Charlie Archer.
“I don’t think a bad beat is defined by odds,” I said, “but rather, by pain.”
Click here for the rest of the story and to learn how when it comes to bad beats "we can look back on the strategy, but without the tragedy."
The Final Table for the Main Event is set and UK's Jack Salter is chip leader. A little different from the start of Day 4, when he was 40 of 41! Jennifer Robles finds him after he bags up over 5 million chips.
Players are now on a 75-minute dinner break, which means we are too. We'll have updated chip counts for you in a bit, so stay tuned.
Keep up-to-date with all the side event results at the EPT Grand Final by clicking through to PokerStars Blog. Wins for Eric Sfez, EPT Prague runner-up Georgios Sotiropoulos and Christopher Lockhart some of the most recent trophy winners. Check it out over at the PokerStars Blog.
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