Joining the action on the flop, Sotirios Koutoupas check-called a bet of 1,500 by Ivan Soshnikov and both checked the turn. On the river the defending Deauville champion check-called a bet of 3,100 by Soshnikov and then mucked when he was shown .
We arrived at the table in time to see three players table their cards before the flop in an all in confrontation. The shortest of the trio was Bart Moens, who was all in for his last 7,000. Anton Bertilsson was the next biggest stack and was also at risk for a stack of 9,200 total. A third player had the other two covered and was hoping to score a double knockout an reduce the field by two.
Moens:
Bertilsson:
Opponent:
The flop came down , giving Bertilsson the overall lead with top two pair. Moens let out a shrug after seeing his ace-queen was outflopped and he stirred in his seat while waiting for the turn card. His disappointment was quickly turned around after the rolled off on fourth street, pairing his queen and giving him the lead with a better two pair. The finished off the board and Moens was secured new life through a triple up. Bertilson's ace-jack bested the third players sixes and he was awarded the side pot, keeping him alive but on life support with just about 4,500 in chips.
Tobias Peters started out on a tough table today with, amongst others, Dario Sammartino, Oleksii Khoroshenin and Vincent Verdickt. Peters tournament wasn't going so well at that table, falling down to 8,000 in the first couple of levels. He has picked himself up now though, and plays around starting stack again.
Peters told us two hands that gave him some more breathing room again. In the first Peters was already up to 12,000 and he called a raise to 900 with , only to have someone behind him squeeze to 2,375. The initial raiser folded but Peters shoved all in. His opponent called holding . The board brought some danger with but in the end Peters was safe and doubled.
Right the next hand Peters got aces and he opened. The big blind, the same player who had openen the last hand, made the call. The big blind check called a bet of 1,150 on . Both players checked the on the turn and the big blind bet out 1,550 on the -river. Peters raised to 3,850 and the big blind called. Peters showed his pocket aces and the big blind mucked.
Paul Bertrac reraised to 6,500 after Ognjen Sekularac had a bet of 2,400 in front of him from early position. The opponent in the small blind folded but Sekularac called to see the flop of and check-called a bet of 6,000 by Bertrac after the Frenchman had asked for his stack size prior to the continuation bet.
On the turn, Sekularac checked again and then folded to a bet of 12,000. Bertrac showed the bluff.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy had checked flop and bet turn of a final board reading and then fired out a 6,800 bet on the river. His opponent, Pierre Merlin, looked puzzled and took a few minutes before his curiosity got the better of him and he threw out the call.
Troyanovskiy tabled his two par hand and Merlin mucked. One of Troyanovskiy’s table-mates teased him about his hand, questioning how the action went but he wasn’t too bothered as he stacked the chips. His inquisitor did however concede it was a good bet on the river.
EPT 11 Prague finalist Anton Bertilsson was all in and at risk for 4,700 with and got called by an opponent who was holding . The board ran out safely for the Swede on even though it wasn't without an additional sweat.
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier moved all in for 24,650 after FPS Deauville runner up Felix Lambertz had bet 13,000 into a pot of more than 23,000 chips on a river. Lambertz eventually mucked even though it was less than his bet to call and the Frenchman has more than doubled his starting stack.
Zoran Jovanovic won a live satellite to qualify for this event and he limped from first position to get the action underway. Sat to his left, Carlos Mora Alvarez, pounced on the perceived weakness and raised it up to 2,000. All the other players folded and it was back to Jovanovic who made it 5,500 from a 14,000 stack.
Alvarez first looked confused but then even he had to smile as he mucked his hand, slightly abashed that he had fallen for that one.
Georgios Sotiropoulos, runner up of the EPT 10 Prague Main Event, check-called a bet of 2,500 on the turn with a fellow short stack having 7,450 behind. The river saw the Greek check again and then fold to the all in. Sotiropoulos had about 9,000 chips left but headed out of the tournament area quickly after.
"Twice I had sets and both times I lost," Fabrice Soulier said when we inquired about his stack size that was far shorter that the last time we checked by. Apparently, they went to Manuel Sadornil and the Spaniard is among the current chip leaders.
flop, Sotirios Koutoupas check-called a bet of 1,500 by Ivan Soshnikov and both checked the 
turn. On the 
river the defending Deauville champion check-called a bet of 3,100 by Soshnikov and then mucked when he was shown 
.
, giving Bertilsson the overall lead with top two pair. Moens let out a shrug after seeing his ace-queen was outflopped and he stirred in his seat while waiting for the turn card. His disappointment was quickly turned around after the 
rolled off on fourth street, pairing his queen and giving him the lead with a better two pair. The 
finished off the board and Moens was secured new life through a triple up. Bertilson's ace-jack bested the third players sixes and he was awarded the side pot, keeping him alive but on life support with just about 4,500 in chips.
. The board brought some danger with 
but in the end Peters was safe and doubled.
. Both players checked the 
-river. Peters raised to 3,850 and the big blind called. Peters showed his pocket aces and the big blind mucked.
turn, Sekularac checked again and then folded to a bet of 12,000. Bertrac showed the 
bluff.
hand and Merlin mucked. One of Troyanovskiy’s table-mates teased him about his hand, questioning how the action went but he wasn’t too bothered as he stacked the chips. His inquisitor did however concede it was a good bet on the river.
and got called by an opponent who was holding 
. The board ran out safely for the Swede on 
even though it wasn't without an additional sweat.
river. Lambertz eventually mucked even though it was less than his bet to call and the Frenchman has more than doubled his starting stack.
