Nick Petrangelo won his first gold bracelet at this past summer's World Series of Poker. In this event he'll be looking to add a European Poker Tour title to his trophy case, and has recently moved his stack up to 225,000 in chips.
On a recent hand, Nelson Carvalho raised to 4,300 from the button, then Petrangelo called from the small blind. In the big blind was Andrey Shatilov, and he three-bet to 14,500. After Carvalho folded, Petrangelo called.
The flop came down , and Petrangelo checked. Shatilov opted to check behind, then the turn was the . Petrangelo led with a bet of 24,500, and Shatilov folded.
Govert Metaal called us over and smiled that he just played a fun hand. "I had 4% on the flop!" he said. Metaal showed us a tweet he had just send out.
The player under the gun had shoved all in for his last 20,000 with . Metaal had called with and another player pushed all in behind him for 58,000 with . Metaal called to put both players at risk.
The flop came and Metaal needed runner runner straight for a chop, or runner runner diamonds to eliminate both players. He did just that with the on the turn and on the river.
With about 22,000 already in the middle, Thore Nordboe and Yehoram Houri look down at a flop of . Nordboe bets out 8,000 only to have Houri move all in over the top for 61,500. Nordboe goes deep into the tank for several minutes before dropping out a call.
Nordboe:
Houri:
The board finishes with the and the , allowing Nordboe to finish with two pair of aces up. Houri hits the rail and Nordboe boosts his stack to about 185,000.
Andre Lettau and Samuel Phillips were both eliminated on Day 1, but the entire remaining line-up from last year’s final table made it through to today. That sent PokerStars Blog off in search of Mr Ensan and everyone’s favourite Angry Moron, et al.
Canadian Jason Lavallee is a world class troll on Twitter from time to time, and just now he even managed to trick the PokerNews crew. Lavallee Tweeted about the following hand, and we assumed he had hit the rail.
Four minutes after sending out this Tweet, Lavallee provided a 140-character napkin for the tears of his followers by sending out the rest of the hand.
Lavallee laughed upon discovering we fell for it as well when we spotted him still sitting in the tournament with 223,000 chips. The winner of the EPT London high roller explained what happened in the hands that he won, as he's currently doing quite well near the end of Day 2.
The player in the hijack raised to 4,500 and Lavallee three-bet from the cutoff to 11,000 and the action folded back to the initial raiser. Lavallee got four-bet to 23,000 and he responded by moving all in for 79,000. Lavallee got called by ace-queen and his queens, as described in the Tweets above, held up.
A little while later a player raised under the gun to 4,500 and Lavallee three-bet to 11,000 from the button. Lavallee opponent shoved for 60,000 with , and he hit the rail after losing to .
, and Petrangelo checked. Shatilov opted to check behind, then the turn was the 
. Petrangelo led with a bet of 24,500, and Shatilov folded.
. Metaal had called with 
and another player pushed all in behind him for 58,000 with 
. Metaal called to put both players at risk.
and Metaal needed runner runner straight for a chop, or runner runner diamonds to eliminate both players. He did just that with the 
on the turn and 
on the river. 
. The big blind called with 
and hit a 
. Nordboe bets out 8,000 only to have Houri move all in over the top for 61,500. Nordboe goes deep into the tank for several minutes before dropping out a call. 
and the 
