Dan Shak opened for 11,000 and called a 46,000 shove from Helge Pedersen. Shak’s faced off against the of Pederson.
A run out of again saw queens on the flop put a dent in Shak’s stack and Pedersen doubled his stack. Pedersen felt obliged to defend his shove and Shak agreed neither of them did anything wrong in the hand. Shak has though increased his stack since the last time we checked in with him.
Marko Neumann had bet 22,000 on the turn of a board reading and Miguel Chaparro jammed it all in over the top for 160,000. Neumann sat puzzling it out for a minute before making the call.
Chaparro had shoved with and Neumann had him out pipped with . The river card was no help and Chaparro was out the door.
Patryk Poterek and Grzegorz Derkowski got their chips in before the flop, with Poterek being a whole ton shorter than his countryman. Poterek was at risk holding and was dominated by Derkowski's .
The flop wasn't good for Poterek, and the on the turn sealed the deal. The on the river was there just for good measures, and Poterek was escorted to the pay out desk.
Slaven Popov has doubled his stack after getting all in on a flop with against Andrea Dato's . The turn gave Dato a few more outs, he'd now win with an ace or chop with a seven but the on the river sent the pot to Popov.
It was checked to Martin Finger on a flop of and a bet from him of 14,000 took the pot. He indicated that he had it and mentioned folding a previous hand where he had top pair. His neighbour said it must be nice and Finger did not demur.
Finger opened the next hand for 11,000 and called a 58,000 shove from Knut Hatle. Finger had and Knut needed to hit with . Finger asked jokingly if Knut wanted to take his bet back and chop it up but Knut said he was happy to bust as he wanted to watch Barcelona play football.
The board ran out . The football would have to wait for Knut as for once the Finger magic deserted him.
The 100th EPT deserved a memorable bubble and EPT Barcelona somehow managed to deliver it; an almost never-ending bubble, which even now it hasn’t finished. It featured six all-ins, The Mob, a guitar, a tournament ticket, and a creative solution to a problem that nobody ever thought existed, as the PokerStars Blog reports.