Sergio Aido raised to 12,000 and snap-called the three-bet shove of Thomas Butzhammer for 39,000 with . The last German in the Main Event was looking for many hearts or an ace, but the dealer burned and turned the board. Butzhammer is on the rail and for the first time in EPT Season 11, no German will be on a final table of the Main Event.
In the last hand before the break right after the bubble had burst, Ruben Visser shoved from the small blind holding ace-queen. Big blind Vladimir Troyanovskiy made the call all in for his remaining 35,000 in the big blind with pocket tens and flopped a full house to double.
The first hand after the break Visser doubled Troyanovskiy again. Visser open shoved the button for effectively ten big blinds holding pocket deuces. Troyanovskiy woke up with pocket aces in the small blind and of course called. Troyanovskiy won the hand and doubled.
Just now Visser won all those chips back though. After a raise to 13,000 and a call, Visser squeezed to 38,000. Behind him Troyanovskiy shoved for about 60,000. Action folded back to Visser who called with . Troyanovskiy had and failed to improve enough on .
Joseph El Khoury was all in and at risk for his last 59,000 with on the feature table and faced the of Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. The flop was good for the Frenchman, the turn even greater. However, El Khoury survived thanks to the river and both players are almost even in chips now.
For the second time within the past few minutes, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier had a short stack at risk and this time it was Emin Aghayev for 50,000 with . Grospellier had two live cards with and this time he scored the knockout after a board of .
Walter Buss shoved his small stack all in from the cutoff and Adrien Guyon in the big blind just about instantly called. Buss showed and the Belgian player was up against .
The in the window was a good start for Buss, but the other two community cards weren't as good: . The on the turn gave Buss some outs, but the on the river wasn't one of them. The experienced Buss hit the rail, Guyon started stacking.
Jean Pierre Besancon shoved his last 91,000 all in under the gun. Action folded to Aliaksei Boika in the big blind and the man from Belarus made the call.
Aliaksei Boika:
Jean Pierre Besancon:
The spelled doom for Besancon, and the on the turn and on the river failed to improve him. Jean Pierre Besancon headed to the exit, Boika up to just about 300,000.
Joseph Carlino was all in and at risk before the flop for 103,000 against Ivan Gabrieli. The hands were turned over to find the two flipping for Carlino's tournament life.
Carlino:
Gabrieli:
The board came down , keeping the tens in the lead and allowing Carlino to live to fight another day. Gabrieli was not as fortunate, however, as he was left crippled with just 25,000.
It took until the early hours of the morning, but Vladimir Troyanovskiy dominated the FPS HR final table to secure the title and take home a 1st prize of €141,000. The PokerStars Blog reports.
Marcin Horecki checked to see what the situation was with the pay jumps as there was an all in on the other table. Satisified that he had made it he was all in for 40,000 with and Andrius Bielskis with the big stack duly looked him up with .
The dealer put out with the river giving Horecki just what he needed.