Not long ago Ariel Celestino doubled through Yang Wang and he just did so again in bad beat fashion. Wang's ace-king flew into the muck on a board of ![]()
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and Celestino rivered the straight with his ![]()
. The Brazilian is eventually back above starting stack while Wang still holds a fairly decent stack.
2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
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we just saw a player all in, with Alexander Timokhin deep in the tank. A call would mean a huge swing for Timokhin, but in the end he was right.
Timokhin's opponent showed ![]()
for a busted flush draw, and the Russian player took down the pot after tabling ![]()
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Timokhin's up to around 60,000 chips.
Kamran Aliyev, who mad equite some buzz on Day 1 of the EPT Dublin Main Event this season, was called out about an hour ago. The player from Azerbaijan just walked into the tournament area to collect his ticket and then said "come on, you can't be doing this to me, it's Saturday, yesterday was Friday," and then admitted he had woken up 40 minutes ago.
"How many chips I got? I hope it's at least 25,000," but then discovered he had around 20,000 when getting to his seat. The first hand, he was in the big blind and let go against a raise.
Nível: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Among those to bust recently were Joao Simao and Laurynas Levinskas. The latter tweeted his fortune over to Max Silver:

@max_silver out. Kk < AA for 60k on 150/300 and drawing dead w overpair in another 30k pot :DFollow @LaurisL91
Last time we checked, Faraz Jaka had a fairly decent big stack but most of his blue T-5,000 chips were gone now and Marti Aguilar sitting behind a tower of them. Jaka said he had raised with ![]()
and then four-bet before check-raising all in after a six-high flop with the nut flush draw and gutshot.
Aguilar held up with pocket queens and doubled to six digits.
Enzo Del Piero opened to 900 and Bertold Winz shoved for 6,675 from two seats over. The player in the big blind called that, as did Del Piero. Both remaining active players then checked down the board ![]()
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and the big blind showed ![]()
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Del Piero mucked, as did Winz, but the dealer told them to both reveal their cards as per all in showdown rule. Winz held ![]()
, Del Piero the ![]()
. Despite losing this small pot, the Brit is still up since the last time we checked, though.
Dietrich Fast was down to 30 big blinds and lost a flip to table neighbor Vebjorn Monstad with ace-king versus pocket nines.
Monstad was at it again shortly after, creating a big pot of around 25,000 against Pierre Neuville to the ![]()
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turn. Monstad then shoved for slightly more than Neuville had behind and the Belgian eventually folded, claiming in table chat he had pocket queens.