Francesco Grieco raised to 85,000 and claimed the blinds and antes. Then, Anton Bertilsson raised to 85,000 from the small blind and Grieco called in the big blind. The Italian took a few minutes to fold the flop to a continuation bet of Bertilsson.
One hand later, Bertilsson raised to 85,000 from the button and Jonathan Wong called in the big blind. On the flop, the Swede got through with yet another continuation bet of 85,000.
Jakub Slemar, Miltiadis Kyriakides and Bjorn Wiesler went to a flop of and a bet of 145,000 from Slemr saw just Wiesler make the call. They both checked the turn and river .
Wiesler showed for a full house and won a smallish pot.
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EPT Live commentator James Hartigan told us the story of his first EPT, which was during the first season in Deauville. Interestingly enough Hartigan didn't do commentary on his first EPT, but he actually played in it.
Anton Bertilsson called a raise and then four-bet shoved into the squeeze of Fabio Sperling. The German snap-called with but Bertilsson made a jack-high straight on the turn with to stay in the tournament.
Remi Castaignon raised to 85,000 and then folded to a three-bet of Francesco Grieco.
Davidi Kitai then shoved from the small blind into the big blind of Castaignon and the Frenchman folded.
Jonathan Wong took the blinds and antes with a raise to 100,000 before finally a flop and turn would be shown.
Anton Bertilsson raised to 100,000 from the small blind and Tamer Kamel called in the big blind. On the flop, Kamel called a bet of 85,000 and did so again for 140,000 on the turn. The on the river triggered a bet of 500,000 by Bertilsson to put Kamel all in, the Brit folded.
Bjorn Wiesler made it 40,000 from first position and Simon Mattsson made it 130,000. Wiesler called to see a flop of . Both players checked and the turn card was the which was again checked. The river card saw Wiesler make a bet of 295,00 and Mattsson made the call.