After coming 20th in the IPT High Roller event yesterday, Ari Engel has continued his good form in the Main Event. Read more about it over on the PokerStars Blog.
Lucas, brother of Sam and Max Greenwood, stretches his way through a level then talks about how a man who loves the outdoors so much likes to sit in a room with no windows playing poker all day. The PokerStars Blog reports.
We missed the preflop action, but we do know local Maltese player Julian Micallef got his last 10,000 all in preflop and was in bad shape against Jukka Paloniemi.
Micallef:
Paloniemi:
Micallef needed some major help, but he was left wanting as the board ran out a lackluster .
We noticed Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was no longer in his seat. A quick check with his former table mates confirmed that he had actually fallen just before the dinner break.
Joona Linna was the man who dispatched the Frenchman, and he shared a few details. According to him, Grospellier opened for 900 under the gun and the player to his direct left called. Linna came along from the big blind and the three of them took a flop of .
Linna led out for 1,300, Grospellier called, and the other player got out of the way. Both players checked the turn, and then Linna bet big on the river. Whether Grospellier called off or shoved, we do not know, but whatever the case, he got his chips in holding only to discover Linna held an for aces full of fives.
Prior to dinner, Shaan Siddiqui was sitting near the top of the chip counts. Unfortunately for him, his luck seems to have dwindled as he was just on the end of a set-over-set hand.
A flop saw Siddiqui and Tomas Sayech engage in a raising war, with the latter getting all in. Siddiqui held pocket fives, but he was drawing to a single out as Sayech had sixes. The turn and river both blanked, and just like that Siddiqui lost more than half his chips.
Ludovic Geilich got up from the table and whispered in our ear that an interesting hand was being played over on his table. Geilich said Leonard had at least and was talking his opponent into calling, a player that for sure had according to Geilich. He later told us the entire hand.
Leonard had opened from early position to 1,200 and Ryan McEathron had called right behind him. Leonard had double checked his cards on and checked. McEathron bet 1,500 and Leonard had made the call.
Both players had checked the on the turn and now the completed the board. Leonard pushed all in for effectively 15,000 or so and the decision was on McEathron.
The Canadian player seemingly was leaning towards a fold, but Leonard talked him out of it. At one point the clock was called and eventually McEathron called for his tournament life. Leonard showed for a full house and McEathron folded what indeed was as Geilich had "predicted".
Geilich himself is playing 42,000, just above average.