Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden just managed to win a very important hand as his pocket aces managed to hold up. Lodden's opponent, Ziga Jamnikar, moved all in before the flop and the Norwegian pro made the call.
Lodden:
Jamnikar:
The board ran out and Lodden knocked out another player, as he now sits on 475,000 chips. The Vienna Main Event marks Lodden's 14th EPT cash and his best result will be hard to top, as he won €467,000 last year for finishing 3rd in the EPT Grand Final.
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"All in and a call," we heard a dealer yell from across the room.
We made our way over just in time to discover Yulius Sepman was all in holding the on a board reading . Unfortunately for him, Ivan Neytchev had him drawing thin with the .
Sepman needed a ten on the river to make a straight, but it wasn't in the cards as the blanked.
After Alex Kravchenko the next Team PokerStars Pro has been eliminated. Thanks to our Portuguese colleague we have the details of his bust out hand.
Pinho opened the cutoff and got a three bet to 50,000 from the small blind. Pinho decided to see a flop and called in position. Pinho's opponent continued to bet all the streets. The small blind bet 45,000 on with two spades, 115,000 on the -turn and he pushed all in on the -river.
Pinho called all the way and finally all in on the river with his top pair, but was soon met with an unpleasant surprise. His opponent had for a flush and sent the Portuguese pro packing.
In two seperate hands Russian player Roman Korenev busted two seasoned pro's.
In the first hand Fabrice Soulier commited his last chips with . Korenev had and that hand easily held up. The board ran out and Korenev sent the Frenchman packing.
Not much later Alex Kravchenko shoved his last 70,000 to the middle. It was again Korenev who performed the role of executioner. Kravchenko had shoved with while Korenev had .
The on the board improved Korenev while Kravchenko ended up empty handed.
Marco van Opzeeland opened under the gun and set off a chain of callers in Anatoly Filatov, Gavin O'Rourke, [Removed:40] and Stephen Chidwick. Fiver players saw the flop come...
Opzeeland checked and Chidwick bet 45,000. FIlatov folded and O'Rourke made the call. [Removed:40] then moved all in for around 220,000. It folded round to O’Rourke who called and showed . Vitagliano had flopped his straight with his but needed to fade the spades to win.
The turn and river were safe and Vitagliano scooped a big pot.