Stephen Chidwick joins the PokerNews Podcast to talk about Season 10 of the European Poker Tour, goal setting, and getting ready for both the World Series of Poker, and Spring Championship of Online Poker. Rich and Donnie discuss the finale of Season XII of the WPT, scheduling conflicts, and more.
Last year Vasili Firsau finished tenth in this very event. We're now down to ten players. This is where is journey ended last year, and obviously he has no intention of having it end so early this year.
In a recent hand, a short-stacked Firsau opened for 500,000 from the cutoff, which left him just 115,000 behind. Jack Salter debated what to do from the big blind, and he opted to just call. When the flop fell , Salter moved all in and Firsau called off.
Firsau:
Salter:
Firsau was ahead, but both a jack and king would give Salter the lead. Fortunately for Firsau, neither ppeared as the blanked on the turn followed by a on the river.
When this tournament was down to ten players last year, Vasili Firsau moved his short stack all in holding the and received a call from Grant Levy, who held the . Firsau failed to catch, and he was sent home in tenth place for €76,000.
Fast forward a year. The tournament is down to ten players and Vasili Firsau was once again all in It happened when Jack Salter opened for 110,000 from the button and then snap-called Vasili's all-in shove for 1.165 million.
Salter:
Vasili:
Once again Vasili was behind and in need of some help, but history repeated itself after the board ran out a dry . The situation was not lost on Firsau who let a small smile cross his face. For the second year in a row Firsau has barely missed out on the final table, and the only consolation he has here in Season 10 is that the prize money is a little more.
The final nine players are now on a short break while they relocate to the feature table. We're one elimination away from the final table of the EPT10 Grand Final. Cards should be back in the air shortly.
In one of the first hands back from the break, Sebastian von Toperczer opened for 100,000 from the hijack only to have Martins Seilis three-bet all in for 710,000 from the cutoff. When action reached Jack Salter in the small blind, he looked down at his cards and then made a triangle with his fingers, the motion he uses to indicate that he is all in. Von Toperczer folded, and the cards were turned up.
Seilis:
Salter:
Seilis was is great shape, and according to the PokerNews Odds Calculator he had a 66.54% chance of doubling on the hand while Salter would come from behind 27.97% of the time.
The flop made things interested as Salter picked up a flush draw. It was much more of a flip at this point with Seilis being a slight 49.39% favorite over Salter, who had a 45.76% chance of hitting. The turn made it so there was a 20.45% of a tie, but it'd be the river that would give Salter the come-from-behind win and send Seilis out the door in ninth place.
We're now down to the final table of eight players.
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and Moennig made trip nines to double his stack to 1.2 million. Buonanno was left with 2.1 million.
, Salter moved all in and Firsau called off.
on the river.
and received a call from Grant Levy, who held the 
. The situation was not lost on Firsau who let a small smile cross his face. For the second year in a row Firsau has barely missed out on the final table, and the only consolation he has here in Season 10 is that the prize money is a little more.
flop made things interested as Salter picked up a flush draw. It was much more of a flip at this point with Seilis being a slight 49.39% favorite over Salter, who had a 45.76% chance of hitting. The 
turn made it so there was a 20.45% of a tie, but it'd be the