Rafael Morales opened for 1,100 and got called by Riccardo Mazzitelli and the small blind Kacper Pyzara. The flop was a doozy . All three players checked and they went to the turn card .
It was checked to Mazzitelli who bet 2,525 which was called by Pyzara and Morales left them to it. The river was the which Pyzara checked and then called a bet of 5,000 from Mazzitelli.
Russian PokerStars player Evgeny Taranyuk opened in late position for 1,000 and was raised by the small blind Dmitry Vitkind to 2,800. Taranyuk made the call and the two players saw a flop of .
Vitkind checked but when Taranyuk bet 3,200 he raised him about 15,000 which was enough to put Taranyuk all in. Taranyuk picked up his stack and examined it before putting it over the line to call.
Taranyuk had but was crushed by the of Vitkind. The turn and river were no help and Taranyuk was felted.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and 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.
As you can see, Ole Schemion is currently in the lead, but he was eliminated in just five hands here on Day 1b. Meanwhile, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst made it through Day 1a, meaning she had a prime opportunity to gain on the German.
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
Dominik Panka
608.60 pts
5
Alex Biloku
593.15 pts
6
Jeff Rossiter
590.27 pts
7
Oleksii Khoroshenin
577.93 pts
8
Georgios Karakousis
554.56 pts
9
Ami Barer
544.84 pts
10
Mike McDonald
535.23 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.
We had seen Jason Lavallee before today, but hadn't written down any big hands of him yet. Lavallee, who finished runner up to Ludovic Lacay here in Sanremo in October 2012, won a serious pot just now from next door neighbor Dan Murariu.
Lavallee opened the hijack to 1,200, and Murariu three-bet to 2,800 from the cutoff. Max Greenwood on the button folded and both blinds did the same. Lavallee made the call though and he saw a flop in this three betted pot.
Lavallee checked to his Romanian opponent. Murariu carefully tabbed the table and they were off to the turn; . Lavallee was done checking and bet out 3,400. Murariu didn't waste much time and tossed in a blue 5,000 chip to call.
After receiving change, the dealer put the on the table. Lavallee contemplated his options, and then announced all in for 14,550. Murariu wasn't too happy about it, and folded his hand after about fifteen seconds of thinking.
Lua Moschitta raised from middle position and then called the all in of Nicolas Oger for 4,100 with the . Oger was ahead preflop with the but the board saw his opponent from Italy improve. Further eliminations just after the restart of level seven have been added.
Carl Carlsson opened for 1,050, and when action reach EPT9 Barcelona champ Mikalai Pobal in the small blind, he moved all in for 4,825. The big folded and Carlsson made a quick call.
Pobal:
Carlsson:
Pobal knew he was in trouble and began to rise, but then the dealer put out the flop — . Pobal flopped trips and took a commanding lead in the hand. The turn meant Pobal just needed to dodge a queen on the river, which is exactly what he did when the peeled off.
Local hero Andrea Benelli just lost one-third of his stack in pretty much the first hand after the dinner break. He five-bet shoved and Dennis Lindmark tank called after several minutes of consideration for his last 34,325 chips.
It was a classic coin flip with the for the Swede and the for Benelli.
The board brought none of the two over cards for the Italian and he leaves the overall top 10 counts for now.
The only one we did catch on the way out of the tournament area was Vladimir Bozinovic. Short he moved all-in with a gut shot on the flop and got called by bottom set.
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