Mike McDonald held and cut out a raise from the cutoff. Madis Muur called from the button with and the blinds folded. The flop came down and McDonald checked. Muur checked it back and the hit the turn.
McDonald fired out a bet of 250,000 and Muur stuck around. The fell on the river and gave Muur a winning two pair. McDonald slowed with a check and Muur moved 315,000 forward. McDonald called and then quickly mucked his cards after seeing Muur's two pair.
Muur dragged in the pot and is now back in chip lead with 6.98 million in chips.
With shoes off, skateboard lying on the floor, empty coffee cups and coke cans lying around everywhere, welcome to the High Roller event, live from Ole Schemion’s front room, as reported by the PokerStars Blog.
Mike McDonald raised to 125,000 on the button with , Madis Muur three-bet to 310,000 out of the small blind with , and McDonald responded with a four-bet to 700,000.
Muur wasn't backing down with the third-best pair in hold'em, however, and the Estonian slid out a five-bet of 1.275 million. McDonald tanked for about a minute, then moved all in for 6.73 million.
Muur looked like he was going to be sick. After 30 seconds he started talking to himself, then looked over at McDonald, who was staring straight ahead.
After a little over two minutes, the Estonian folded his hand face up, and McDonald slid his cards into the muck.
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 (last updated January 12, 2014):
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Place
Player
Points
1
Thomas Muhlocker
350.68 pts
2
David Benefield
321.18 pts
3
Ole Schemion
311.62 pts
4
Jeff Rossiter
258.92 pts
5
Joao Barbosa
257.14 pts
6
Kenny Hallaert
253.87 pts
7
Nicolau Pacheco Villa-Lobos
251.08 pts
8
Jonathan Duhamel
243.35 pts
9
Timothy Adams
222.31 pts
10
Frederik Brink Jensen
209.90 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.
Pascal Lefrancois raised to 175,000 in early position with , Mike McDonald three-bet to 450,000 out of the small blind with , and the action was back on his fellow countryman. The French Canadian reached for chips, four-betting to 850,000, and McDonald folded.
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, Madis Muur three-bet to 315,000 out of the small blind with 
, and Baron responded with a four-bet to 625,000.
and cut out a raise from the cutoff. Madis Muur called from the button with 
and the blinds folded. The flop came down 
and McDonald checked. Muur checked it back and the 
hit the turn.
fell on the river and gave Muur a winning two pair. McDonald slowed with a check and Muur moved 315,000 forward. McDonald called and then quickly mucked his cards after seeing Muur's two pair.
, and McDonald responded with a four-bet to 700,000.
