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and with about 90,000 in the pot, Zhen Cai bet 75,000 from the big blind and Pasquale Braco called from middle position. The
river filled up the board and Cai continued with another bet of 160,000. Braco snap-called. Cai tabled ![]()
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to claim the pot with ace-high.
2019 PokerStars.es EPT Barcelona
Bartlomiej Machon opened and Sergio Coutinho three-bet to 150,000. Machon four-bet all in for 845,000 and, after asking for a count, Coutinho called.
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Tens were ahead and tens held on the ![]()
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board leaving Coutinho with just five big blinds remaining and was eliminated a short while later with ![]()
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A three-way all in saw Bartlomiej Machon and Yuri Martins Rodrigues at risk of elimination, and both were covered by Sabo Ceylan.
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, Machon tripled up for 275,000 and Martins Rodrigues was eliminated.
[Removed:551] opened to 40,000 from the cutoff and Ivan Stokes three-bet jammed for about 450,000 from the small blind. [Removed:552] snap-called and the players tabled their hands.
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and [Removed:552] raked in the pot, sending Stokes to the rail.
Michal Schuh opened to 45,000 and Giovani Torre three-bet to 145,000. Schuh called and checked a ![]()
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flop over to his opponent who continued for 150,000.
Schuh then check-raised all in for 805,000. Torre used up three of his four remaining time extensions before folding.
Over on the feature table, two shorter stacks collided and start-of-the-day chip leader Simon Mattsson ended up as the player at risk.
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flop gave Mattsson top pair and Marques Carmo was drawing to a chop only after the
turn. A blank
followed on the river and both players traded stack sizes.
The cards were already on their backs with Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes all in and at risk for 255,000, which Jonas Ten Cate had called.
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and Lopes was eliminated in 54th place.
Down to just 130,000 in chips, Rodrigo Borges Mendes went for it with ![]()
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rundown, ending his bid in 55th place.
Isaac Haxton opened to 45,000 under the gun and Jiayuan Liu called from one seat over. Johnny Nedved three-bet to 150,000 from the button and Haxton folded but Liu added the remainder to call.
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and Liu checked. Nedved fired 250,000 and Liu snap-folded.
Former chip leader Rui Sousa just tumbled down the leaderboard after doubling up Kully Sidhu for about one million total. Action was picked up on the turn in what was presumably a three-bet pot between the adversaries.
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and Sousa check-called a bet of 210,000 from Sidhu. On the
river, Sousa checked, and Sidhu shoved all in for 640,000. Sousa gave Sidhu an intense staredown before calling it off.
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and paid the man his money.