There was no major pot in the last couple of minutes while hand-for-hand play went on. Tournament director Toby Stone announced that the next break will be postponed if we do not reach the money until the end of Level 16. Instead, play carries on without a break. If it takes more than 30 minutes to determine the bubble boy, the break will then be taken.
Swedish poker player Michael Tureniec is in with a good shout to be the first double champ (but there's some way to go yet). Sarah Grant caught up with him earlier today for a quick interview. Watch it at the PokerStars Blog.
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.
In the last day, Adrian Mateos Diaz jumped from ninth place to fifth, which in turn knocked Alex Bilokur, Jeff Rossiter, and Oleksii Khoroshenin down one spot each,
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
| 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 | Adrian Mateos Diaz | 605.16 pts |
| 6 | Alex Bilokur | 593.15 pts |
| 7 | Jeff Rossiter | 590.27 pts |
| 8 | Oleksii Khoroshenin | 577.93 pts |
| 9 | Georgios Karakousis | 554.56 pts |
| 10 | Ami Barer | 544.84 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.
Mitch Johnson from the United Kingdom opened under the gun with a min raise. Action quickly folded to Mark James who was one of the shortest players still in the tournament. James shoved from the button for 30,500 total and both blinds quickly folded. Johnson made the call.
Because of the hand-for-hand play, action was then halted. The tournament organizers ordered the dealer to wait till all hands on the other tables had been finished. After a minute or so it was time to open the cards to see what the situation was.
Mark James: 
Mitch Johnson: 
What started out as a fair fight would soon turn sour for James, as Johnson hit his set: 
. James needed runner runner something but was drawing dead on the turn: 
. While the tournament director announced James still had a flush draw, all other players involved knew it was done. The 
on the river was a blank and James exited the tournament.
With the departure of Mark James from the UK, the remaining 79 players are now all guaranteed €8,434.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
315,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
|
Eliminado |
Just after the bubble burst there was a three-way preflop all in on another table.
Andrey Lobzhanidze
Jan Sjavik 
Andrea Benelli 
Benelli covered them both and the excitable Russian, Lobzhanidze was out of his seat shouting in anticipation.
The cards ran out 
.
Lobzhanidze had to dodge a queen on after the flop and when it didn’tdome he pounded the table in celebration, tripling up. Meanwhile Sjavik was quietly eliminated.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000 | |
|
Eliminado |
In one of the first hands after the bubble broke, and just a few minutes before the break, Dmitry Ponomarev got his short stack of 27,500 all in preflop at the feature table and was in great shape to double through Stefano Garbarino.
Ponomarev: 
Garbarino: 
Ponomarev got it in good, but his Italian foe got lucky when the flop came down 
. Neither the 
turn nor 
river helped Ponomarev, and he exited in 78th place for €8,434.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
144,000
-56,000
|
-56,000 |
|
Eliminado |
Just after the bubble burst the clock ticked down to the second break of the day.
Back in 20 minutes.
In the two minutes before the break we caught the following three hands that saw two seat opens and the triple up of Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden.
Jorge Ribeiro limped in the small blind and then moved all in after the raise of Matas Cimbolas in the big blind. Cimbolas wasted no time in calling all in with the 
. His opponent turned over the 
and picked up a few further outs on the 
flop. Both the turn and 
river were no help and Ribeiro was gone.
Mario Sanchez Cano four-bet shoved the button and Federico Petruzzelli called in the big blind with the . He was in excellent shape against the of his opponent, the 
confirmed that.
Last but not least we went back to table four and it was Johnny Lodden at risk. Pedro Pellicer raised the cutoff, Lodden moved all in one seat over for 12,500 and both Pellicer and Shyam Srinivasan in the big blind called. The 
board was checked down. Pellicer showed the and Lodden won the pot with the .
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
320,000
-140,000
|
-140,000 |
|
125,000
800
|
800 |
|
40,000
-145,000
|
-145,000 |
|
||
|
Eliminado | |
|
Eliminado | |
Nível: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Now that the players are in the money Olivier Busquet had some advice for his table. “Alright guys, stop nitting it up.”
Mathew Frankland interjected, “It’s only seven players to go until the next money jump.”
“OK guys, tighten up.” was the revised opinion of Busquets.
