Therw was no action on the flop nor the turn between Carlo Vitti from Switzerland and Anton Bertilsson before Vitti then bet the river for 1,175 and won the pot. One hand later he got involved in another pot with the EPT 11 Prague runner-up and check-called a bet of 700 on the flop.
On the turn, Vitti check-called 1,700 and Bertilsson then checked behind the river. Vitti flipped over and that won the pot. All other notables on the same table are in fact down in chips as well.
Just before the level went up, with approximately 7,000 in the pot and a board reading , Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki bet 5,100 from the small blind and Andrea Montini called from middle position. When the completed the board on the river, Horecki switched gears with a check and that opened the door for Montini to bet 6,100. That proved enough as Horecki folded his hand.
The board was already complete and Sami Shetta was betting 4,500 out of the small blind into a pot of 7,500. Fabio Berti tanked for quite some time and eventually the Finn asked the dealer: "Can I have time on him, please?" It was only then for Berti to call and Shetta's for a flush won the pot.
"Did I make you call because of the time?" Shetta asked. "Do you speak English?" Berti replied with one single word: "Straight."
"In the very first hand I lost 10,000," Salman Behbehani said when we walked past his table with the flop reading . The American checked out of the big blind and so did Ryan Spittles from early position and the player in the small blind. The turn got checked as well and Spittles then faced a bet of 600 by the player in the small blind.
Behbehani folded but Spittles had other plans and raised to 1,700. The move didn't get through, as the Brit eventually mucked to a reraise to 4,600.
Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen opened with a standard raise from the under-the-gun position and was met by a three-bet to 1,500 from Serdar Demiroglu. Action folded back to Jorgensen, who four-bet to 7,000, leaving himself just 1,275 behind. Demiroglu just flatted and then called when Jorgensen shoved the flop.
Demiroglu:
Jorgensen:
Both players had flopped top pair, but Jorgensen's kicker had him out in front. Neither the turn nor river posed a threat, and Jorgensen was shipped a welcomed double.
With nearly 13,000 in the pot and a board reading , Austria's Christian Golob moved all in from middle position and put the pressure on 2014 World Series of Poker third-place finisher Jorryt van Hoof, who had 18,500 behind in the cutoff.
"You show the bluff if I fold?" Van Hoof asked after some time in the tank. Golob did not respond.
Eventually Van Hoof folded his cards, and Golob chipped up to right around 70,000.
Is there a point when table talk gets a little out of hand? Maybe. But then it depends on who’s doing the talking, and the subject matter. In this case the Horecki women come out well, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Miroslav Alilovic finished second to Ricardo Manquant in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Circuit International this Monday morning and was two days back at home before heading over to Malta. The Frenchman is now in the EPT Main Event, however on just under one third of the starting stack.
The tables nearby include two other button-clicking wizards in Thomas Muehlocker and Fedor Holz.