After a raise to 20,000, Griffin Benger in the cutoff three-bet to 48,000 and Artem Litvinov moved all in from the small blind for what looked like 100,000. The big blind and initial raiser folded, but Benger made the call.
Benger:
Litvinov:
This time Benger held the worse hand preflop but got there as the board ran out . Litvinov headed to the payout desk and we will have by far less table talk now.
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The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as we've mentioned before it's a heated affair between current leader Ole Schemion and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, the former of which is still playing in this event.
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.
Since yesterday, Alex Bilokur jumped up two spots to No. 4, which in turned dropped Dominik Panka and Adrian Mateis Diaz a spot apiece. In addition, both Olivier Busquet and Jose Carlos Garcia cracked the top ten at ninth and tenth respectively, which resulted in both Georgios Karakousis and Ami Barer fell off the top ten.
Obviously this leaderboard will change a lot in the coming days with the completion of the EPT Sanremo Main Event and High Roller.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Ole Schemion
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
885.90 pts
2
Vanessa Selbst
762.05 pts
3
Thomas Muhloecker
748.82 pts
4
Alex Bilokur
664.48 pts
5
Dominik Panka
608.60 pts
6
Adrian Mateos Diaz
605.16 pts
7
Jeff Rossiter
590.27 pts
8
Oleksii Khoroshenin
577.93 pts
9
Olivier Busquet
565.26 pts
10
Jose Carlos Garcia
554.92 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.
Max Greenwood opened for 22,000 on the button and Griffin Benger three-bet from the small blind to 55,000. The big blind folded and Greenwood made the call.
The flop was . Benger wanted to know how much Greenwood started the hand with and got a reply that it was 300k. Benger bet 38,000.
The turn card was the and both players checked. A river card and when Benger checked again Greenwood paused for 30 seconds before announcing all in. The count was exactly 200,000.
Benger didn’t like it, not one bit. He leaned forward to see past the dealer and asked Greenwood in the 8 seat, “Five six of spades?” Greenwood had his eyes closed and didn't respond.
Benger then he said to himself, “I’m not good enough to make this call.” and folded.
Philip Sternheimer defended his small blind against the under the gun raise of Alex Bilokur and then check-called 22,000 on the flop. On the Sternheimer checked again, Bilokur made it 45,00 to go and then tank folded after the US boy check-raised to 130,000.
Just a few minutes later we saw Mustapha Kanit open to 20,000 from under the gun and he got called by four opponents. On the only Alex Bilokur called the continuation bet of Kanit for 41,000 and both checked the turn. On the river, Kanit fired 85,000 and that was enough to avoid a showdown.
Griffin Benger defended his big blind against an under the gun raise from David Vamplew and check-called the flop for 24,000. On the turn both players checked and the river completed the board.
Benger checked once more and Vamplew bet 65,000. Quick call from the Canadian with and that won the pot against the of his opponent. It was also one of the few hands as of lately that even went to a showdown.
Ismail Erkenov open shoved from the button for his last 140,000. Max Greenwood quickly folded the small blind but Griffin Benger in the big blind just as quickly announced “Call.”
Erkenov obviously knew from his tone what that meant and said “Oh.”
Oh indeed as Erkenov’s had run into the of Benger.
The dealer dealt and Erkenov was out.
Everyone knew that Erkenov had sucked out on Berger earlier and Greenwood commented to Berger, “You know the expression chip warmer?”
Benger wasn’t sure he’d heard it before but he understood what it meant.
It was not really a good day at the office for the second in chips at the start, Jason Lavallee. Down to only 130,000 he three-bet shoved into a raise of Alex Bilokur and was called by the Russian. Showdown:
Lavallee:
Bilokur:
A typical coin flip that you encounter to often deep in tournaments. Lavallee had two over cards and a possible flush draw, however the Canadian couldn't connect with the board. He shook hands with all opponents and left in the second last hand of level 18.
Two more levels for today unless we reach the final eight for the final table tomorrow already before that. Below are the table constellations with ten players left:
. Litvinov headed to the payout desk and we will have by far less table talk now.
. Benger wanted to know how much Greenwood started the hand with and got a reply that it was 300k. Benger bet 38,000.
and both players checked. A river card 
and when Benger checked again Greenwood paused for 30 seconds before announcing all in. The count was exactly 200,000.
Sternheimer checked again, Bilokur made it 45,00 to go and then tank folded after the US boy check-raised to 130,000.
river, Kanit fired 85,000 and that was enough to avoid a showdown.
turn both players checked and the 
had run into the 
of Benger.
and Erkenov was out.
board. He shook hands with all opponents and left in the second last hand of level 18.
