Nursing a short stack for the past hour, the winner of last night's €10,000 Single-Day High Roller, Charlie Carrel finally found a hand he was willing to shove with.
It was the and he shipped the button only to run into big stack Gilles Bernies in the big blind with the . Bernies called and held through a board to send Carrel packing.
The last 20-minute break for the day has just started. In 20 minutes, two more 75-minute levels are to be played before the tagging and bagging starts.
... All the below players. Ronan Gilligan became short when he was trying to bluff Alex Komaromi on the river of a board by betting 11,000. Komaromi called with for queen high and a busted flush draw, Gilligan's were counterfit by the board.
Mike McDonald raised to 3,500 pre-flop and was three-bet by Mikhail Petrov to 8,000. McDonald made the call and together they saw a flop. McDonald check-called a bet of 8,400 and then the was dealt on the turn. Both players checked. The river was the and McDonald lead for 55,000 into a pot of around 37,000.
Petrov tanked for a few minutes before calling. McDonald tabled and Petrov shook his head as he openly mucked . With that hand McDonald boosted his chip stack in the final hand before the break.
Not long ago, Mike McDonald doubled up through table neighbor Walid Bou Habib and the Lebanese was then at risk for 41,000 before the flop. McDonald looked him up with the and Bou Habib was at risk with the . The board ran out and the kicker played a crucial role to send Bou Habib to the rail.
A few other notables on this table have quite some chips available.
Blind on blind Liv Boeree raised to 4,200 and Adrian Mateos called in the big blind. The board came and Liv bet 4,300. Mateos thought before raising to 12,000. Boeree called and saw the on the turn, and the on the river, both cards were checked by both players and Boeree won the pot showing to boost her stack up over 100,000 chips
With the board reading and around 21,000 chips in the pot, Zvi Stern bet 10,500 for half the pot. David Vamplew one seat over made it 29,000 to go and Stern tanked for quite some time, trying to get any kind of information. "Eights?" he asked, then grabbed some chips and put them to his head.
Stern checked his cards again, then waved with the chips in his hand into the table three times before one would eventually drop. Vamplew immediately asked if this was a call and Stern quickly replied "yes, I was not gonna fold anyways." The November Niner showed and Vamplew had an equally strong hand in to chop it up.
Iliodoros Kamatakis then complained that Stern cannot wave around with chips in his hand like this and a floorman walked past the table, which was alerted by the Greek.
Ultimately, the antics were deemed to "probably would have resulted in a forced call" anyways and Stern received a reminder to keep everything within the rules.
EPT killer Mike McDonald just made some huge strides towards making his mark on this EPT Dublin Main Event.
The big hand started with Walid Bou Habib raising the button to 3,600 and McDonald bumping it to 11,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Habib four-bet, making it 26,500. McDonald five-bet shoved for 104,000 and Habib called it off with the .
McDonald had the and kings held on a run out to give McDonald the double and a big 200,000-plus stack now.
and he shipped the button only to run into big stack Gilles Bernies in the big blind with the 
. Bernies called and held through a 
board to send Carrel packing.
by betting 11,000. Komaromi called with 
for queen high and a busted flush draw, Gilligan's 
were counterfit by the board.
flop. McDonald check-called a bet of 8,400 and then the 
was dealt on the turn. Both players checked. The river was the 
and Petrov shook his head as he openly mucked 
. With that hand McDonald boosted his chip stack in the final hand before the break.
. The board ran out 
and the kicker played a crucial role to send Bou Habib to the rail.
on the turn, and the 
to boost her stack up over 100,000 chips
to chop it up.
