Gottfried Franz opened for 850 and received a call from Panagiotis Sotiriadi in the hijack. Andre-Peter Metzner then called from the button, and Marton Czuczor opted to move all in from the small blind for 5,525 total.
Franz took a moment before four-betting to nearly 25,000, and it isolated as both Sotiriadi and Metzner released their hands.
Franz:
Czuczor:
It was a bad spot for Czuczor as he ran his pocket pair into a bigger one. The board ended up running out a dry and that was all she wrote for Czuczor.
Michael Telker from the USA is joking around to the table about his fold to four-bet percentages claiming that one of these times he’s going to have it. Dominik Nitsche then claims that he will now be breaking out the cold four bets and promptly opens the next pot throwing in a red T1000 chip just after saying “Nine.” Action on Telker who asks him, “No? Nein?” before folding claiming he made a really big fold.
The table briefly falls quiet on the next hand as Soren Hansen opens for 850 and Raed Mouawad moves all in for 6,550. Hansen thinks about it for a while and folds showing while Mouawad showed the .
It folded round to Ryan Hall in the small blind on the next hand who opened for 700 which was called in the big blind by Dominik Nitsche. It was checked all the way to the river with the final board showing . “You got anything?” Nitsche asked. In a way he did as the was better than Nitsche’s hand and he won a small pot.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate 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 will be 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.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Ole Schemion
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
781.39 pts
2
Vanessa Selbst
736.22 pts
3
Thomas Muhloecker
594.30 pts
4
Adrian Mateos Diaz
520.87 pts
5
Georgios Karakousis
512.31 pts
6
Mike McDonald
490.74 pts
7
Jonathan Little
480.01 pts
8
Dominik Panka
455.15 pts
9
Ondrej Vinklarek
444.14 pts
10
Dario Sammartino
423.96 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.
on the table and action was on Max Silver after Andrew Hulme had checked.
Silver bet out a hefty 8,400 into what looked like a 10,000 pot. Hulme thought about it for quite some time and at one point laughed "I'm not raising". Silver laughed back but would soon lose that smile.
Hulme called and Silver immediately mucked. Hulme followed suit and a big chunk of chips changed hands without showdown.
Team PokerStars Pro Michael Keiner was just all in for his tournament life and trailing. Keiner had very little chips remaining when he tabled , which was up against .
Vladimir Geshkenbein, former EPT Snowfest winner, and Sergii Baranov, WSOPE Main Event runner up, are seated at the same table today.
Geshkenbein is known for his entertaining antics, while Baranov did not hold back while playing heads up against Phil Hellmuth in 2012. We've not seen the two tangle just yet, but with personalities like this it's bound to happen!
On a board of Jamil Kanji, a PokerStars player from Canada bet 4,800 and was called by fellow PokerStars player Thomas Hueber. The river was the and Kanji bet again, this time 8,700. Hueber made the call and mucked when Kanji showed making a straight on the turn and undeterred by the last club.
and that was all she wrote for Czuczor.
while Mouawad showed the 
.
was better than Nitsche’s hand and he won a small pot.
on the table and action was on Max Silver after Andrew Hulme had checked.
, which was up against 
and Keiner was knocked out.
and Kanji bet again, this time 8,700. Hueber made the call and mucked when Kanji showed 
making a straight on the turn and undeterred by the last club.
