The flop was and on the table lay the exposed cards of Michiel Brummelhuis . At the other end of the table face up was the of Markus Stranzinger. The floor had been called because Brummelhuis had turned over his cards and still had 5,000 chips behind, a tiny amount compared to the pot. Brummelhuis was worried that the floor would rule his hand dead.
The floor explained that the “hand is never dead.” In situations like these. If another player was still to act he may incur a penalty but it wouldn’t kill his hand. In any case it was just the two players, and the hand played out with all the chips in the middle.
The turn and river didn’t bring a flush for Brummelhuis and he was out.
At the end of Day 1A, Roman Cieslik was trying to give away his stack. Literally. But, forced to bag it up like the rest of them, he came back today ready to fight. PokerStars Blog caught up with the man living his second life, which you can read by clicking here.
A total of 910 players entered EPT Vienna creating a prize pool of €4,413,500 and 135 players will get paid. A min cash this week is worth €8,700 while making the Final 8 will guarantee you at least €77,000.
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The floor was called to table 25 to request a change of deck as one of the cards was marked. This was the fifth deck that the table would be using in under two hours. As a new deck was produced the floor explained what would happen if another card was marked.
There was no accusation that any player was deliberately marking the cards but they were being marked when a player was “squeezing”, i.e. bending the cards too much when peeking at their hole cards. This was unacceptable as it was slowing up the game and was unfair. If it happened again the floor would examine every folded hand to determine the culprit.
Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden opened for 2,000 from the hijack and was met by an all-in three-bet to about 18,000 from Niclas Adolfsson in the small blind. The big folded and Lodden wasted little time in making the call.
Adolfsson:
Lodden:
It was a flip, but Adolfsson needed to improve to stay alive. The flop didn't do it, and neither did the turn. However, Adolfsson did pick up a gutshot Broadway draw.
The dealer burned one last time and put out the . Adolfsson missed and was eliminated here in Level 10 while Lodden chipped up to over 100k.
Meanwhile, Lodden's fellow Team Pro, Liv Boeree, has been eliminated from the tournament.
Jasper Wetemans started out as the Dutch player with the most chips but that sure has changed.
The Dutch EPT regular, who cashed in the last six EPT Main Events he played in, now has about 43,000 left after losing a 110,000 pot. In that hand he had on a flop with two spades. Though top-two might sound pretty good, it was pretty terrible as his opponent held pocket jacks for the set. No ace on the turn or river and Wetemans had to forfeit a lot of his oh so carefully gathered chips.
In the other corner of the majestic Festsaal his countryman Luuk Gieles is seated. Gieles, who played a fare share of EPT's as well, has a little over a 100,000 by now. He won kings versus fives, won a flip with ace-king versus jacks and won one big non-showdown pot.
The king (Wetemans) is dead. Long live the king as Gieles now leads the Dutch contingent.
We missed the action unfold, but it appeared Surinder Sunar got his short stack all in preflop holding and was racing against the of Sergey Baburin. The board ran out a clean and that was all she wrote for Sunar.
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Marko Vukoja raised to 1,600 from the hijack and former EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee three-bet from the button to 4,700. The action quickly folded back to Vukoja and he made the call.
The flop brought out and Vukoja check-called 6,300 after which the turn brought the .
Vukoja checked to MacPhee again who quickly threw out another 14,000. MacPhee's Croatian opponent tanked for a bit before folding and he was immediately shown for complete air.
MacPhee raked in the pot and he's now sitting on around 132,000 chips.
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and on the table lay the exposed cards of Michiel Brummelhuis 
. At the other end of the table face up was the 
of Markus Stranzinger. The floor had been called because Brummelhuis had turned over his cards and still had 5,000 chips behind, a tiny amount compared to the pot. Brummelhuis was worried that the floor would rule his hand dead.
and river 
didn’t bring a flush for Brummelhuis and he was out.
flop didn't do it, and neither did the 
. Adolfsson missed and was eliminated here in Level 10 while Lodden chipped up to over 100k.
on a 
flop with two spades. Though top-two might sound pretty good, it was pretty terrible as his opponent held pocket jacks for the set. No ace on the turn or river and Wetemans had to forfeit a lot of his oh so carefully gathered chips.
and was racing against the 
and that was all she wrote for Sunar.
and Vukoja check-called 6,300 after which the turn brought the 
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