Clyde Tjauw Foe opened the button and EPT Grand Final champion Adrian Mateos made the call from the big blind. The flop came and Mateos checked. Tjauw Foe fired 14,000 into the middle and Mateos check raised to 46,000. Tjauw Foe called in position.
Both players checked the on the turn and the completed the board. Mateos bet 125,000 and Tjauw Foe shoved all in. Mateos instantly folded.
"I had the best hand anyway I think" Tjauw Foe said while he gathered the chips. He showed and started stacking. Ori Miller asked "Why did you shove?" and asked the table the same question when Tjauw Foe didn't reply. Miller will probably never know because no one joined in the discussion.
Two years ago, Ivan Soshnikov topped a 176-entry field and defeated Olivier Busquet in heads-up to win the Season 10 European Poker Tour Prague €10,000 High Roller for €382,050. Soshnikov was back in Prague looking for another title, but his hopes of capturing one in the Main Event just came to an end.
Soshnikov shoved his last 63,000 from the cutoff and Tomas Pleticha looked him up from the button.
Soshnikov:
Pleticha:
It was another flip, and Soshnikov just needed to hold. He couldn't though as the flop paired Pleticha. The turn put up a chop option, but it didn't come through as the blanked on the river. Soshnikov was officially eliminated in 89th place.
Javier Rojas Mederos got his stack all in preflop and was flipping against Paul Michaelis.
Michaelis:
Mederos:
Mederos needed to improve to stay alive, but that didn't happen as the board ran out a lowly . Michaelis was pushed the pot while Mederos made his way to the payout desk in 88th place to collect €11,540.
Alexander Reard made it 14,000 to play from his seat in the cutoff and his only customer was Iaron Lightbourn sat one seat away on the button. Reard checked the , but called when Lightbourne made a 19,000 bet.
The was checked by both players, with the river completing a potential flush and pairing the board, meaning it wasn’t surprising to see Reard lead for 34,000. Lightbourne quickly folded, exposing the as he did so.
Jeffrey Hakim opened the button for 13,000 and Andrew Chen called from the big blind. Both players checked on and the hit the turn. Chen bet out 15,000 and Hakim called. The river came the and Chen bet 37,000 with just 50,000 behind. Hakim tanked for a long time but folded.
Iliodoros Kamatakis just raised from the button and Dutchman Foeke Deinum moved all in from the small blind for 128,000. Kamatakis snap-called after the big blind folded, and the showdown went as follows.
Kamatakis:
Deinum:
The board ran out , as Kamatakis cried out, "No!" after the river hit. Deinum hit a set on the river to double up, and he's now right back in it.
"Prague is good for me," Deinum said to us with a big smile, "I didn't see that coming," he then added as he stacked up his newly won chips.