2015 November Niner Ofer Zvi Stern was running pretty good for most of the day and arrived at his new table, that also included Pierre Calamusa, with twice the average. But just now that is a mere 20 big blinds left. According to Janos Kurtosi and other players at the table, Kurtosi clashed with Stern in a six-bet pot.
Stern five-bet to 90,000 and then called the following shove for another 100,000 on top with pocket queens. Kurtosi showed pocket aces and held up to leave Stern short.
Adrien Allain was the runner-up in the 2016 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale to collect €577,800. He is hoping to improve upon this haul with a win during the last ever EPT Main Event.
He was off to a good start on Day 2, but just doubled up Martin Kabrhel after declaring himself all in on a board reading . Kabrhel thought for under a minute before calling his remaining stack of 58,100. He doubled up after Allain turned over for top pair before he turned over for two-pair.
The next hand the duo battled again for smaller amounts. Allain opened the action on the flop and then folded to Kabrhel's raise to 11,600.
Jan Nakladal raised to 5,100 in the cutoff and snap-called the shove of Kitty Kuo, who had 32,300 in the big blind.
Kuo:
Nakladal:
The flop came , meaning Kuo had even more cards to dodge since her opponent picked up a double-gutter. Bricks on the turn and river ensured her survival, though.
On a table with big stacks Maxi Lehmanski and Nicolas Chouity, Walter Treccarichi was just all in and at risk for around 15 big blinds with the and Alexandru Gavrilut reshoved from the button with . The board ran out and both players made a straight to chop it up less than 30 spots away from the money.
The final 75-minute level of Day 2 has just begun. There is a chance with 258 players left and 231 making the money that everyone still in the tournament when the day ends, along with some eliminated late during the final level today, will earn at least a €7,560 minimum cash at the end of the level.
Pablo Gordillo had a wager of 25,000 in front of him from the big blind on a board of . Vanessa Selbst took awhile in the cutoff and then called. Gordillo checked the river and Selbst immediately checked back. Gordillo tabled and Selbst looked at her cards again with a sigh and then mucked.
Pedro Lamarca raised to 6,500 and Jens Lakemeier called, Epstathios Kavoukis then three-bet to 28,000 from the cutoff. Short stack Christian Thiry called all in out of the blinds and Lamarca moved all in with the far biggest stack at the table. Kavoukis eventually called it off for what looked like 150,000 and the three players tabled their cards.
Christian Thiry:
Epstathios Kavoukis:
Pedro Lamarca:
The board ran out and Lamarca knocked out two opponents, further increasing his already huge stack.