Koray Aldemir bet 1,900 into a pot of 5,500 on a ![]()
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board, and Noah Vaillancourt, who had checked in middle position, called him. Vaillancourt checked the
river, and Aldemir bet again for 5,000. Vaillancourt responded with an all-in shove, and Aldemir dumped his holding after briefly thinking.
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Sergio Aido opened for a raise and got one caller before the big blind shoved all in for just 6,575. Aido reraised to chase away the third player and get heads up.
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flop was safe enough for Aido, but a
opened up a possible flush. The
completed it, and Aido sent over a double.
Uruguayan high roller Francisco Benitez opened the action from middle position with a raise to 1,000. Adi Alkalay, like Benitez in middle position, three-bet to 3,200 and just Benitez called.
Benitez check-called a bet of 2,800 on ![]()
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and the
hit the turn. That card would proof to a big one, as the money was soon going in. Benitez check-raised Alkalay's 6,300 bet to 13,600 and called the shove for 34,850 total.
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The river
paired the board, giving Alkalay the winning full house. Benitez parted ways with a large portion of his stack.
Among those to join the list of today's casualties were Joao Simao, Scott Margereson, Vladimir Troyanovskiy and Claas Segebrecht. Freddy Deeb had been nursing a short stack for quite some time and ran out of chips as well.
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flop, Giovanni Lena committed his stack of 18,000 to the pot and Sam Grafton looked him up.
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Grafton had plenty of outs to knock out Lena, but the
and
river bricked for the Brit. Lena quickly ran over to a neighboring table and loudly celebrated the double-up.
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, Schemion shoved his last 16,000 in the middle, around a pot-sized bet. Serhal Erdat played slightly less than that and ended up calling the shove.
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for a straight, Erdat mucked and headed for the rail. Schemion is up to 48,000.
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, Maxim Panyak bet 2,150 from early position and Ivan Banic called whereas the third player in the hand folded. The
turn saw Panyak check and call a bet worth 5,700 before checking again the
river. Banic now made it 12,800 to go and that forced a fold from Panyak.
While the duo remains with the biggest stacks at the table, Ema Zajmovic is not far behind and they also face the likes of Andre Akkari and [Removed:17] as well.
Seated under the gun, Elvin Muratovic opened for 2,300. Two to his left it was Mark Teltscher three-betting to 6,200. Action folded back around to Muratovic and he called.
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and Teltscher bet 5,000. Muratovic called.
As the
hit the turn, Muratovic checked again. Teltscher bet 13,000 with a little under 11,000 behind. Muratovic moved all in and Teltscher, somewhat reluctantly but still without hesitation, called.
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Teltscher was in a world of pain with his two pair and only had a couple of outs left to stay alive. The EPT champion and EPT runner-up already got up and put on his jacket, but could sit down again as the
completed the board.
"Nice call" Muratovic said with a somewhat sarcastic voice as he was counting out chips to hand over to Teltscher. The latter replied that he had to call since he had so few chips left.
Nível: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50