There had been an open and a call before Gabriel Nassif also put in the calling chips. Anton Astapau in the small blind then three-bet to 14,600 and big blind Vadim Shlez decided to smooth call. The other players folded but Nasif hung on to his cards while he decided what to do.
The thing was, Astapau had bet 14,600 and had left 5,200 behind. Shlez had a big enough stack to call pretty wide but he had Nassif covered and Nassif’s stack didn’t give him much fold equity if he wanted to shove. Calling didn’t look that great an option either. Nassif looked genuinely torn.
As Nassif was thinking, Astapau started talking to him wondering if he was really contemplating getting involved before the dealer warned him to keep quiet as there were three people in the hand. “I didn’t know that.” Astapau responded but kept schtum.
Nasif made the fold and the dealer put out a flop of . Astapau duly put the remainder of his chips in and Shlez called.
Astapau had and Shlez . The turn was the and with the river pairing the board Shlez’s pair was counterfeited to give Astapau a double up.
Despite the enquiries that followed, and numerous guesses, Nassif wouldn’t say what he folded.
While the EPT Main Event rages on, there's just one other event currently also in progress, the €1k Turbo. And while the Main Event might be an exquisite and long meal, sometimes you're just craving an In-N-Out Burger, the PokerStars Blog reports.
Russia is the third strongest country in terms of participation here at the EPT 11 Deauville Main Event with 32 participants, however two of them just ran out of chips. Ivan Soshnikov had suffered a beat to his stack not long ago whereas Pavel Gonchakov was one of the bigger stacks after Day 1b.
More than 41% of the 592-strong field in the EPT Deauville Main Event come from France. There were 242 French players, way ahead of any other country. Italy is number 2 here in Deauville with 34 players. There are 32 Russians, 31 Brits, 30 Germans and 21 Dutch.
The following countries have only one representative so we hope people are being friendly to them: Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Chile, Egypt, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Mexico, Monaco and Tunisia. Others with 2+ players are: Israel, Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Canada, China, Ireland, Norway, Luxembourg, Serbia and Switzerland.
We caught up with the man behind the GPI during EPT Deauville, Alex Dreyfus, to talk about the upcoming French, American and European Poker Awards, the Global Poker Masters and how to get more ladies to play poker.
While Christopher Frank busted on the feature table not long ago, two EPT champions have also been added to the bustout list for Day 2. Anton Wigg and Frederik Jensen were those casualties. While the circumstances of the Wigg bust are unknown, a short-stacked Jensen got it in with versus and failed to improve.
Nathan Gozlan and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier saw a flop of . Gozlan checked the flop and Grospellier fired out a bet of 4,000. Gozlan called to see a turn.
The dealer produced the on fourth street and action checked to Grospellier for a second time. He continued his aggression with 8,700 and once again found a call. The completed the board and Gozlan checked one final time. Grospellier bet 17,700, Gozlan called, and Grospellier rolled over . Gozlan mucked and Grospellier dragged in a sizable pot. The Team PokerStars Pro is now sitting on about 170,000 in chips.
Stefan Schillhabel opened from late position for 3,800 and Tobias Peters sat to his direct left three-bet to 9,700. The blinds mucked and it was back to Schillhabel. The German reached for more chips and four-bet to 23,300.
Peters, from the Netherlands, clarified the amount and cut out a five-bet to 45,700. No posturing from Schillhabel who quickly let it go. Peters laughed saying he had the better hand but Schillhabel didn’t look in the mood to join in the chat as the pot slid over to his neighbour.
After a raise from early position we saw Simon Appleby shoving all in. Right behind him Oleh Okhotskyi followed suit and shoved all in as well. The initial raiser folded and it was time to show down the hands.
Appleby had and had about fifty percent chance of winning against Okhotskyi's .
The board posed some threat to the Brit, without actually hitting his Ukrainian opponent. The on the turn was a blank but the on the river wasn't. Appleby's deuces counterfeited and he soon enough hit the rail.