2023 PokerStars EPT Paris
Nível: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
The 198 players are on a 20-minute break. The remaining players have locked €2,270 with the next pay jump coming when 183 are still in contention.
With a minute left before the break would start, Pascal Frezza opened from middle position to 16,000. His left-hand neighbor Andrea Campi was short-stacked and went all-in for 35,000. The action folded back to Frezza, who asked for a count and quickly called when he saw how much more it was.
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. Frezza made trips while Campi got stuck on the underpair, resulting in his exit from the tournament.
On the next table over, a pot was brewing between Vladimir Lappo and Wuai-Cheng Tsang. The board read ![]()
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and big blind Tsang had check-raised the 60,000 bet from button Lappo to put him all-in for 198,000 total. Lappo went into the tank for his tournament life while the rest of the players trickled out of the room on their break. Eventually Lappo called with ![]()
for top pair but saw the bad news when Tsang tabled ![]()
for flopped trips.
The river
did not bring the miracle Lappo was hoping for, and he was the last player to seek the cashout desk before the break. Meanwhile Tsang happily stacked Lappo's chips as he moves up in the chip counts with what is now a seven-figure stack.
Silviu Baltateanu open-jammed a stack of 90,000 from under the gun and Manoe Betrix called in the big blind with a bigger stack.
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Baltateanu was dominated and the runout of ![]()
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marked his elimination despite making trips. Betrix turned to tell his opponent "good game" but Baltateanu had already stood up from his seat.
Petar Kalev opened to 21,000 from middle position and found one caller before Michel Pinville three-bet to 80,000 from the big blind.
Kalev jammed for 227,000, which folded out the other player, and Pinville called after getting a count.
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Kalev was dominated and was eliminated following the ![]()
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runout.
Piotr Matejczyk raised to 25,000 from early position, leaving just a single 1,000 chip behind. Action folded around to Mathieu Rabalison in the big blind, who had the odds to make the call. He reshoved for Matejczyk's last 1,000.
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Matejczyk's hand held.
"I survived again!", said Matejczyk, "How many more lives am I going to get?"
Kenny Deffrasnes opened to 16,000 from middle position and Francky Magliocco called from the cutoff. Elias Fisz then jammed for 148,000 from the big blind.
Deffrasnes quickly folded before Magliocco tank-called.
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Fisz paired up to take the lead on the ![]()
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flop and he improved to two pair on the
turn. The
completed the board, and Fisz found an uplift in his stack.
Igor Yaroshevskyy was all-in and at risk in the small blind against Antoine Lecamus on the button.
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Yaroshevskyy was ahead with ace-high and stayed that way as the board ran out ![]()
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to earn him the double.