Gereon Sowa faced the limp of Robin Ylitalo and raised to 700 in a battle of the blinds. The EPT London champion called to see the flop of
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and the Swede check-called a bet of 800. He did so for 1,900 on the
turn and Ylitalo also checked the
on the river. Sowa bet 5,225 and was eventually called to show
for top two pair as winning hand.
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
Jeff Madsen opened for 450 and 2012 EPT Player of the Year Ondrej Vinklarek made the call on the button.
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and Madsen made a continuation bet of 675. Vinklarek raised it up to 2,125 and Madsen made the call.
The two continued to check both the turn (
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for the winning hand, Vinklarek mucked.
In what looks like it could develop into a personal battle, Vanessa Selbst and Davidi Kitai were involved in another pot against each other as the rest of the table looked on.
Selbst opened from early position for 500 and called a 1,800 three-bet from Kitai in the small blind.
The flop of ![]()
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was checked and the
on the turn saw Kitai bet 3,300 in his trademark style. Selbst thought for a minute or two before making the call. The river card
saw both players check.
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saying of her preflop call, “Pretty bad eh?”
Kitai remained tight lipped.
Jon Spinks had just under 8,000 chips left and they were all in the middle with ![]()
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Spinks was looking for an ace as he had been called by a player with ![]()
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. Spinks was out of his seat as the flop hit and was half-way away from the table when some wiseacre pointed out that he had hit his ace on the river. He received a reprimand from another player at the table for the bad taste comment.
Ole Schemion just walked into the tournament area to take his seat.
Moments later we spotted Natalie Hof raising to 500 and the German then folded a raise of the player in the small blind. One hand later, Daniel Erlandsson called a raise and bet the
flop for 700. His opponent called and both checked the
on the turn. The Swede bet the
river for 1,225 and folded to a check-raise of 5,100 chips.
Two-time WPT champion Chino Rheem has just been spotted taking down a pot to see him climb to 45,000 in chips.
On a board of ![]()
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the player on the big blind bet out 1,500 before Rheem raised it up to 4,200. The player on the button got out of the way and the original better called.
With the
completing the board, the big blind checked. Rheem quickly reached for his chips and threw out 9,000. The bet was enough to take down the pot as Rheem’s opponents quickly threw his cards into the muck.
Jason Mercier has been eliminated from the tournament, and he just only sat down not too long ago. Mercier walked out the door, and he told us his bust out hand.
Mercier told us that he had ![]()
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and he got it in on the river for 13,000. His opponent was the proud owner of ![]()
for a full house though and wasn't about to lay that down.
Mercier won a big tournament in St. Kitts last week, but Prague hasn't been good to him so far. He bubbled a €10,000 Open Face Chinese Poker tournament, didn't cash in the €50,000 Super High Roller, and didn't make any long days here in the Main Event either.
Leonid Markin has just taken his seat in today’s event fresh off his victory in the €50,000 Super High Roller event last night.
Markin defeated a field of 42 unique runners with nine re-entrants to take home the €771,360 first place prize.
On the turn of a
board, Andrea Dato check-raised the turn out of the big blind and the dealer threw the all in button towards him. The Italian pointed out that he had left a red T-1,000 chip behind and threw the button back. Jean-Noel Thorel had bet 600 and Paul Newey called but they both folded to the raise of 3,325 by the Italian.