On a board we saw online tournament wizard Nick Maimone and online cash game wizard Hendrik Latz tangling. Maimone was seated in the small blind and Latz in the big blind. Latz had 190,000 in front of him and was all in. Maimone was thinking about it.
Maimone took out the 190,000 he needed to call, played around with it for some time, and then called. Latz showed for the flush, Maimone open mucked his . As the break is coming up, we're going to make sure we have the right counts for these two.
Just before the break there was an All in and a call on another table as the of Mark Teltscher faced off against the of Nick Maimone. Another player said they had folded an nine so it was looking grim for Teltscher who was the player at risk.
The board ran out and with all the nines accounted for it was Telscher who doubled and Maimone who was left with under one big blind to come back to after the break.
In EPT side event news, a €5,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament began yesterday with 187 players, but now just 16 remain in contention for the €200,900 first-place prize. The current chip leader in that tournament is Georgios Karakousis, who you may recall was runner-up at EPT London in October for £349,200. Also still in the running is Canadian World Series of Poker bracelet winner Max Greenwood with 357,000; Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Dermot Blain with 310,000; and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree and French singer and actor Patrick Bruel.
Here's a look at the final 16:
Rank
Player
Country
Chips
1
Georgios Karakousis
Greece
538,000
2
Max Greenwood
Canada
357,000
3
Dermot Blain*
Ireland
310,000
4
David Vamplew
United Kingdom
235,000
5
Carlos Chadha
Canada
210,000
6
Mike McDonald
Canada
195,000
7
Artem Litvinov
Russian Federation
155,500
8
Patrick Bruel
France
142,000
9
Alexander Shelukhin
Russian Federation
117,500
10
Liv Boeree**
United Kingdom
114,000
11
Ariel Adda
United Kingdom
92,500
12
Oleh Okhotskyi
Ukraine
87,500
13
Thomas Muhlocker
Austria
81,000
14
Yves Boschetti
Switzerland
80,000
15
Alexander Dovzhenko
Russian Federation
65,000
16
Aslan Daurov
Russian Federation
48,000
*Denotes Full Tilt Poker Ambassador **Denotes Team PokerStars Pro
Just before the last minute ticked off the clock in Level 18, three more players hit the rail in Carlos Mejia and JC Alvarado.
In regards to the former, he moved all in from the small blind for roughly 40,000 holding the and Conor Shelly defended the big blind with the . The flop paired Shelly, which meant Mejia's best chance of winning was a ten for Broadway. The turn wasn't it, and neither was the river. With that, Mejia exited the tournament.
As for Alvarado, a preflop raising war saw him get his stack of 235,000 all in as a dominant favorite against Idris Ambraisse.
Alvarado:
Ambraisse:
Unfortunately for Alvarado, he'd get extremely unlucky as the board ran out .
Meanwhile, Marc Daubach was eliminated by Dani Stern at another table in unknown action.
With 96 players left and only 95 in the money, someone had to be the hero. Online regular Kenny 'Lonehixx' Hicks, who started the day below average has chipped up nicely and has done the remaining players a favor by knocking out the final unpaid player. He also discusses the remaining field- many of which are online friends who share a lot of history playing on PokerStars.
The first hand after the break would be the last of Nick Maimone in the EPT Season 10 Grand Final. He got his last 12,000 in with against Igor Kurganov's . The board didn't help anyone and Maimone had to leave the tournament area.
Sebastian Von Toperczer faced off against Marcello Marigliano on a flop of . Marigliano check-called a bet from Von Toperczer and they went to the turn card . Marigliano moved all in and, after a brief think, Von Toperczer made the call.
Marigliano had the nut flush draw hand against the middle pair of Von Toperczer.
It was Marigliano who was at risk and the river was no good for him.
The man who had eliminated Phil Ivey from the tournament was now out himself, but Marigliano was walking away with €21,800 for a 56th place finish.
board we saw online tournament wizard Nick Maimone and online cash game wizard Hendrik Latz tangling. Maimone was seated in the small blind and Latz in the big blind. Latz had 190,000 in front of him and was all in. Maimone was thinking about it.
for the flush, Maimone open mucked his 
. As the break is coming up, we're going to make sure we have the right counts for these two.
of Mark Teltscher faced off against the 
and with all the nines accounted for it was Telscher who doubled and Maimone who was left with under one big blind to come back to after the break.
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and Conor Shelly defended the big blind with the 
turn wasn't it, and neither was the 
river. With that, Mejia exited the tournament.
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against Igor Kurganov's 
middle pair of Von Toperczer.
