Max Greenwood opened for 22,000 on the button and Griffin Benger three-bet from the small blind to 55,000. The big blind folded and Greenwood made the call.
The flop was . Benger wanted to know how much Greenwood started the hand with and got a reply that it was 300k. Benger bet 38,000.
The turn card was the and both players checked. A river card and when Benger checked again Greenwood paused for 30 seconds before announcing all in. The count was exactly 200,000.
Benger didn’t like it, not one bit. He leaned forward to see past the dealer and asked Greenwood in the 8 seat, “Five six of spades?” Greenwood had his eyes closed and didn't respond.
Benger then he said to himself, “I’m not good enough to make this call.” and folded.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as we've mentioned before it's a heated affair between current leader Ole Schemion and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, the former of which is still playing in this event.
As you know players have been accumulating points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop have been eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.
Since yesterday, Alex Bilokur jumped up two spots to No. 4, which in turned dropped Dominik Panka and Adrian Mateis Diaz a spot apiece. In addition, both Olivier Busquet and Jose Carlos Garcia cracked the top ten at ninth and tenth respectively, which resulted in both Georgios Karakousis and Ami Barer fell off the top ten.
Obviously this leaderboard will change a lot in the coming days with the completion of the EPT Sanremo Main Event and High Roller.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
885.90 pts
2
Vanessa Selbst
762.05 pts
3
Thomas Muhloecker
748.82 pts
4
Alex Bilokur
664.48 pts
5
Dominik Panka
608.60 pts
6
Adrian Mateos Diaz
605.16 pts
7
Jeff Rossiter
590.27 pts
8
Oleksii Khoroshenin
577.93 pts
9
Olivier Busquet
565.26 pts
10
Jose Carlos Garcia
554.92 pts
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
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After a raise to 20,000, Griffin Benger in the cutoff three-bet to 48,000 and Artem Litvinov moved all in from the small blind for what looked like 100,000. The big blind and initial raiser folded, but Benger made the call.
Benger:
Litvinov:
This time Benger held the worse hand preflop but got there as the board ran out . Litvinov headed to the payout desk and we will have by far less table talk now.
First Ismail Erkenov chopped an all in preflop pot with the against the of David Vamplew.
The next hand he moved all in again for 86,000 and Griffin Benger made the call one seat over. Ole Schemion in the big blind folded the and it was time for another showdown:
Erkenov:
Benger:
The board delivered one of the two remaining fives in the deck for the Russian and he can take his seat again.
Just after his lucky split pot, Thomas Muhlocker three-bet shoved again and was called by initial raiser Dimitar Danchev with the . The Austrian only had the and was out five community cards later.
Ole Schemion opened for 18,000 and Thomas Muhlocker moved all in for his last 165,000. Griffin Benger just made the call and when it got back to Schemion he shook his head and folded his in frustration.
Muhlocker had risked it all with and needed help against the of Benger.
The flop was and Schemion shook his head some more miming that he wished that he had pushed all in after all.
The turn and river gave the two players in the pot a chop and Muhlocker wriggled free to stay alive.
Raise from Tamer Kamel, three-bet from Imed Ben Mahmoud and four-bet from Max Greenwood in the blinds. Kamel folded but Mahmoud went all in for 140,000 and got a quick call from Greenwood. Showdown please:
Greenwood:
Mahmoud:
The board confirmed the best starting hand in Texas hold'em and all of a sudden the Frenchman is not the shortest stack anymore.
Dmitry Yurasov opened under the gun and got called by big blind Mustapha Kanit.
The two players saw a flop of . Kanit checked and Yurasov continued for 18,000. Kanit made the call and the turn card fell the . Kanit checked and Yurasov moved all in. Kanit quickly made the call.
Yurasov tabled and rolled his eyes when he saw Kanit had got there on the turn with his for a straight.
The river card was the and Yurasov was the first to hit the rail in the money.