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David Williams opened the pot on the button and got calls from Jack Salter in the small and Patryk Slusarek in the big blinds.
The three of them saw a flop of and checked it around. The turn card saw Salter check and Slusarek bet 6,500.
Williams folded but Salter wanted to see another card and made the call.
The river was the . Another check from Salter saw Slusarek continue for 9,500. A smile crept across Salters lips who made the fold saying, “I think you got me that time.”
Gianluca Trebbi opened his hijack for 5,100 and Sam Trickett on the button three-bet to 13,500. Both blinds quickly released but Italian player Trebbi wasn't intending on doing the same. He four-bet to 30,200 and Trickett five-bet all in for 118,300. Trebbi called and a big pot emerged with the following holdings:
Sam Trickett:
Gianluca Trebbi:
The flop wasn't pretty for Trebbi: . The gave him a flush draw but the river wasn't a heart but the . Trickett doubled to an above average stack, Trebbi was left severely short stacked.
Team PokerStars Pro Joao Nunes and Full Tilt Ambassador Jonathan Karamalikis have both been eliminated recently. 136 players remain with the average stack just over 140,000. 40 minutes are left on the clock.
Dario Sammartino open shoved for his last 29,500 with and was perhaps a little unlucky to run into the of Anton Makiievskyi who made the call.
The run out of cards though gave Sammartino the wheel to mean that Makiievskyi flopping top pair was irrelevant on the river. It was Sammartino who doubled up and in turn Makiievskyi who was left short of chips.
Patrick Caveriviere limped in from the small blind and big blind Pascal Vos checked his option.
The flop came and Caveriviere checked to Vos. Vos, who finished fourth in the EPT Berlin Main Event in 2013 for €255,000, bet out 2,200. The on the turn made both players check and the dealer got underway with dealing a river; .
Caveriviere nonchalantly bet 6,000 and Vos called instantly. Caveriviere showed buit that wasn't good enough, Vos tabled for a rivered two pair and took down the small pot.
He has more than $1.1m in live tournament earnings, been to 13 final tables, and has won countless online events, but until last night the Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer had never won a live tournament. Really. It turns out all it took for Danzer to win was a table full of Russians who "really didn't care". PokerStars Blog reports here.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy was facing off against Johannes Strassmann and had reached the turn of a board reading .
Troyanovskiy was in the small blind and checked. Strassmann bet 7,000 and then Troyanovskiy check-raised him to 19,500.
Strassmann made the call and the saw a river card . Troyanovskiy then decided to lead the betting and put out 32,150. A puzzled Strassmann thought about it for a bit but made the call.
The puzzle was solved however when Troyanovskiy showed and a surprised Strassman mucked his cards.
A player in mid-late position opened for 4,500 and Barry Greenstein in the small blind made it 13.500 to go. Robert Brofeldt from Sweden in the big blind shoved all in for 47,100. The initial raiser folded, Greenstein made the call.
Barry Greenstein:
Robert Brofeldt:
Things were looking good for Greenstein, but that would change soon. The on the flop was still of no harm, but the on the turn wasn't so good for the Team PokerStars Pro. The on the river didn't change anything and Greenstein had to forfeit most of his chips.
Belasrus' Aliaksei Zhuk, who goes by Alex, qualified for this event on PokerStars, and he was having a great time early on Day 2 when he knocked out both Gaelle Baumann and Annette Obrestad. Unfortunately he went card dead in the last couple levels, and he just got unlucky to meet his demise.
According to him, he had pocket kings and was all in against a player with pocket nines. Zhuk was a favorite, but a nine on the flop would put an end to his first-ever EPT.
and checked it around. The turn card 
saw Salter check and Slusarek bet 6,500.
. Another check from Salter saw Slusarek continue for 9,500. A smile crept across Salters lips who made the fold saying, “I think you got me that time.”![[user18957]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
. The 
gave him a flush draw but the river wasn't a heart but the 
and was perhaps a little unlucky to run into the 
of Anton Makiievskyi who made the call.
though gave Sammartino the wheel to mean that Makiievskyi flopping top pair was irrelevant on the river. It was Sammartino who doubled up and in turn Makiievskyi who was left short of chips.
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buit that wasn't good enough, Vos tabled 
for a rivered two pair and took down the small pot.
. Troyanovskiy then decided to lead the betting and put out 32,150. A puzzled Strassmann thought about it for a bit but made the call.
and a surprised Strassman mucked his cards.
on the turn wasn't so good for the Team PokerStars Pro. The 
on the river didn't change anything and Greenstein had to forfeit most of his chips.
