Sosia Jiang sits next to Ali Reza Fatehi and has been able to build her stack. Two tables over in the same row, her brother Honglin Jiang has also been able to boost his stack. Fatehi sent Ouri Cohen to the rail, having called a raise with four-seven suited and flopping two pair, then turning a full house to best the pocket queens of Cohen.
2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT
In a three-bet pot to the ![]()
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flop, Jack Salter bet 8,400 into a pot of almost 30,000 out of the big blind and Lily Kiletto moved all in. Salter used one time bank extension and called it off.
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The
turn took away some outs for Salter, but he got there on the
river to double and almost evened out the stacks of both.
Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin and Igor Kurganov are among the latest bustouts in the 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT €5,300 Main Event, as well as Justin Bonomo.
Andre Haneberg has moved up further in the pecking order and sent Samir Moukawem to the rail. On the ![]()
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turn, Moukawem bet and Haneberg called before the
on the river brought a bet of 10,000 by Moukawem. Haneberg raised enough to put his opponent all in and Moukawem called with ![]()
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for the better two pair on the river.
Samuel Kiourktchian has also been eliminated, sending over his stack of around 25,000 to table neighbour Ionut-Flavius Voinea. In the showdown, Kiourktchian turned over ![]()
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and the kicker played.
Almost 50 players have already busted out in the first level of Day 2. Among those to recently make their way to the exit are Jan-Eric Schwippert, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, Javier Gomez, Ronny Kaiser, Bryn Kenney,
After starting the day in the middle of the pack, Javier Fernandez Alonso has taken over the lead after more than doubling up his stack and sending at least two opponents to the rail. His second victim was Julian Stuer, who paid off the three barrels of the Spaniard with ![]()
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Just now, Fernandez Alonso check-called a bet of 12,500 on the ![]()
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turn and checked the
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"What do you expect?" Stefan Huber joked and several other players at the table could all but laugh, having witnessed the hot run from a close distance.
High roller aficionados Tsugunari Toma and Igor Yaroshevskyy are two charismatic standouts at the poker tables and both of them locked horns in the first of what could be many clashes today. On a ![]()
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flop, Yaroshevskky check-called 4,200 from the big blind against Toma's late position bet.
Toma kept on the aggression with a bet of 8,000 on the
turn, which Yaroshevkyy once again called. The river paired the board with the
and Toma blasted 21,000 in. That was too much for Yaroshevkyy, who flicked his hand in the muck.
Jason Wheeler made it 3,500 to go and Ondrej Drozd three-bet to 8,000, which Wheeler called. On the ![]()
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flop, Wheeler check-called 7,000 and check-raised all in after the
turn. Drozd had some 60,000 behind and called with pocket kings only to find himself with just two outs left as Wheeler showed deuces for the set. The
river was a blank and Drozd busted earlier on, while Wheeler joined the big stacks.
In a cutoff against button situation, Aryeh Leon Rose and Jimmy Guerrero got their stacks in the middle. It was Rose who was at risk for 29,600.
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and Guerrero — who finished third in this event in 2016 for €406,850 — slipped below ten big blinds.