Tom-Aksel Bedell and Scott Seiver joined the competition in level seven and headed to their tables with a fresh stack of 30,000 chips. Seiver found himself with a usual High Roller opposition in Viatcheslav Buldygin, Charlie Carrel and Paul Newey while Bedell faces Dmitry Yurasov and Stephen Chidwick.
2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta
Bart Fergiatakis faced the bet of 6,500 by Damien Luis on the river of a board reading ![]()
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and moved all in. Luis called for 16,800 and showed the ![]()
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Luis then lost a big three-bet pot to Bart Maes and the latter knocked out Fergiatakis soon after. Fergiatakis was all in for 1,000, Maes raised to 4,000 and the rest of the table folded. Fergiatakis showed the ![]()
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Viatcheslav Buldygin raised to 1,500 and Romal Jaweed three-bet to 4,200 on the button. "How much? Okay, I call," Buldygin said and checked the flop ![]()
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. Jaweed bet 8,000 and Buldygin said "why so much? that's almost what I have left," then moved all in half a minute later.
Jaweed called it off for 14,800 in total and showed the ![]()
, Buldygin was ahead with ![]()
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turn and the
river changed nothing and the Russian doubled.
After the turn, the board was ![]()
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and Alain Fluri threw in a bet of 2,000. With 10,000 already in the middle, James Akenhead made the call.
The
touched the felt on the river and Fluri fired a second barrel. This time, it was for 6,000. Akenhead called but mucked when he saw Fluri's ![]()
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Marcello Miniucchi raised from under the gun and picked up four callers including Orpen Kisacikoglu and Luca Granieri in the big blind. On the ![]()
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flop, Granieri and Miniucchi checked. Kisacikoglu bet 4,000 and the action folded back to Granieri. He check-raised to 10,000 and Granieri folded. Kisacikoglu carefully checked his remaining stack and then elected to fold as well.
Toomas Kursa open-shoved for his last 9,500 or so from middle position and the action folded around to Aliaksei Boika in the small blind. The Belorusian reshoved and the big blind folded.
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and ace-high claimed the pot to send Kursa to the rail.
Right back from the break, [Removed:155] was up against his fellow dutchman Jeroen Soons.
The flop was already dealt and it was ![]()
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. With 4,500 in the middle he bet 2,600 and Soons made the call.
The turn was the
and Brand fired again. This time, the bet was 7,500 and he got a call.
On the river, the
completed the board and Brand gave up. He checked, and mucked when Soons checked behind.
Davide Suriano raised to 1,500 and Dan Shak made it 4,000 to go on the button. Suriano asked for the count, then called and checked the flop of ![]()
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. Shak continued for 6,000 and Suriano folded. Shak quickly flashed one of his cards and then slid them towards the muck, Suriano asked what it was and Shak pulled out the
. "That's just one of the two cards you were gonna see," Shak added.
Nível: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 100
Six out of the eight scheduled 75-minute levels are done and the players have been sent into a 75-minute dinner break.
Day 1a started with an insane rush for Ireland's Mahmood Rasheed, as he first had a full house with eights over kings against an inferior full house, followed by quads kings and boosted his stack to more than 65,000. Soon after, Martin Kozlov made quads nines against his jacks and Rasheed was cut back down before eventually departing in level six. Kozlov himself has last been spotted with around 20,000 while Pasi Sormunen on the same table tore apart his opponents.
Sormunen sent Dario Sammartino and Rasheed to the rail and also took care of Max Silver and Stephan Zesiger. Silver shoved short with pocket fours, Zesiger just called with kings and Sormunen saw a flop with the ![]()
. Ultimately, the open-ender of the Finn got there on the river to crack two sets and Sormunen went on to accumulate 174,000 by now.
Other big stacks include Sergey Sergeev (130,000), Graydon Kowal (102,000), Dan Shak (83,000), Paul McCartney (80,000), Dmitry Yurasov (80,000), Thomas Mjeldheim (78,000) and Jakub Michalak (74,000). Sergeev got lucky early on to crack the pocket kings of Jens Luebbe with pocket queens, then steam-rolled up his stack. Shak got it in with a jack-high flush draw against Luke Marsh's ace-queen and hit a jack on the river for a massive double.
Early casualties included Caitlin Hall, EPT12 Dublin 5th place finisher Iliodoros Kamatakis and Jorryt van Hoof. Fatima Moreira de Melo had her aces cracked when Anatoly Korochenskiy turned quads tens and the German High Roller regulars Philipp Gruissem and Martin Finger lasted less than half an hour each before also joining the rail.
Other notables still in include Ole Schemion (49,000), Adrian Mateos (45,000), Juha Helppi (42,000), Charlie Carrel (33,000) and Connor Drinan (19,000). They will all return at approximately 9.30 p.m. local time and play another two levels, bagging and tagging then takes place around midnight. In the meanwhile, you can also read up on [Removed:17]'s victory in the €25,750 Super High Roller.