The EPT has always been a place for new champions to make a name for themselves. This Main Event looks likely to be no different, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
2015 PokerStars.fr EPT Season 11 Deauville
Benjamin Buhr limped in from the small blind and Kevin MacPhee shoved from the big blind for 353,000. Buhr called the extra 323,000 with and was up against MacPhee's .
What started out as a 50/50 was still about that after the flop, with a slight edge for MacPhee. The American EPT champion had just 32 percent chance of winning the hand after the on the turn, but his equity indicator shot to 100% after the on the river. Double up!
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Benjamin Buhr |
2,300,000
-311,000
|
-311,000 |
Kevin MacPhee |
756,000
368,000
|
368,000 |
|
1-bet: | Dany Parlafes and Andrius Bielskis paid their blinds. |
2-bet: | Matas Cimbolas opened for 65,000 from the hijack. |
Carlo Savinelli on the button made the call | |
3-bet: | Dany Parlafes squeezed to 253,000 from the small blind. |
After Bielskis folded his big blind, Cimbolas made the call. | |
4-bet: | Savinelli now made it 560,000. |
Parlafes folded and Cimbolas did the same after some thinking. |
Savinelli showed the and took it down. Well, that just happened!
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Carlo Savinelli |
2,850,000
526,000
|
526,000 |
Matas Cimbolas |
2,300,000
-279,000
|
-279,000 |
Dany Parlafes |
2,300,000
-285,000
|
-285,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Benjamin Buhr |
2,280,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Ognyan Dimov |
1,603,000
-297,000
|
-297,000 |
|
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Massou Cohen |
1,224,000
184,001
|
184,001 |
Joseph El Khoury |
896,000
138,000
|
138,000 |
Kevin MacPhee |
637,000
-119,000
|
-119,000 |
|
Benjamin Pollak raised to 65,000 from the cutoff and found a call from Joseph Carlino in the small blind. The two checked a flop of and the fell on fourth street. Carlino checked over to Pollak and he tossed out a bet of 76,000. Carlino called to see a river.
The dealer put out the on the river and Carlino checked one final time. Pollak reached for chips and moved 155,000 into the center of the table. Carlino let his cards go and Pollak was awarded the pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Joseph Carlino |
1,620,000
-261,000
|
-261,000 |
Benjamin Pollak |
990,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
Benjamin Buhr and Joseph El Khoury took a flop of . Both players checked the flop and the hit the felt on the turn. Buhr checked for a second time and El Khoury fired out a bet of 43,000. Buhr came over the top with a check-raise to 123,000 and El Khoury stuck around.
Fifth street was the and Buhr dropped out 255,000. El Khoury spent about two minutes in the tank before announcing a call. Buhr showed for a diamond flush and a dejected El Khoury rolled over for a turned set of deuces and the second best hand. Buhr pulled in the pot and boosted his stack to about 2.7 million.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Benjamin Buhr |
2,700,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
Joseph El Khoury |
836,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
Kevin MacPhee opened his button to 60,000 and Massou Cohen called from the big blind. The flop fell and Cohen checked. MacPhee rapped the table back, allowing the to hit the turn. Two more checks occurred an the board paired on the river with the .
Cohen checked for a third time and MacPhee fired out 110,00. Cohen called, MacPhee snap-mucked, and Cohen won the pot without having to show. He's now up to 1.1 million while MacPhee has dropped to 559,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Massou Cohen |
1,100,000
310,000
|
310,000 |
Kevin MacPhee |
559,000
-78,000
|
-78,000 |
|
Joseph Carlino opened to 60,000 from the cutoff and action folded to Andrius Bielskis in the big blind. "Good again? Aces?" asked Bielskis. "You can check!" he added when Carlino showed a face like he didn't know. Bielskis called and they saw a flop heads up.
Bielskis checked to Carlino and the flamboyant Frenchman bet 89,000. Bielskis made the call.
Bielskis checked on the turn and Carlino instantly checked behind.
The river came the and Bielskis bet 171,000. Carlino instantly called, but he had to muck after Bielskis showed for the rivered straight.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Andrius Bielskis |
1,400,000
579,000
|
579,000 |
Joseph Carlino |
1,300,000
-320,000
|
-320,000 |
Benjamin Buhr opened under the gun to 60,000 and Kevin MacPhee shoved 559,000 (18.6 big blinds) in from the cutoff.
Action folded to Ognyan Dimov in the big blind. He asked for a count, tanked for about three minutes, and called. Buhr instantly folded.
MacPhee's face showed some pain as he saw he was way behind: for MacPhee, for Dimov.
The flop (), turn () and river () were all low cards, but none of 'em helped MacPhee at all.
Kevin MacPhee misses out on his second final table of EPT season 11 after finishing runner-up in this seasons EPT London.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Kevin MacPhee | Eliminado | |
|
Dany Parlafes opened the action with a raise to 65,000 and it folded over to Matas Cimbolas in the big blind. Cimbolas called and the two were off to see the community cards.
The dealer fanned a flop of and Cimbolas checked to the raiser. Parlafes continued out for 80,000 only to have Cimbolas slide out a check-raise to 190,000. Parlafes stuck around.
The hit the board on the turn and Cimbolas bet 260,000. Parlafes spent about 90 seconds in the tank before coming over the top with a raise to 675,000 total. Pressure was now back on Cimbolas, who pondered his action for well over two minutes. In the end, he opted to kick the cards into the muck and Parlafes was pushed a sizable pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Dany Parlafes |
2,840,000
540,000
|
540,000 |
Matas Cimbolas |
1,420,000
-880,000
|
-880,000 |