Gus Hansen played an impressive three days of poker but his streak ended on the feature table late on Day 3.
Hansen raised under the gun to 15,000 with 440,000 behind and Fabio Sperling called two seats from his left. Adrian Bussman was seated in the cutoff and he three-bet to 50,000. Both blinds and the button folded after which Hansen and Sperling made the call.
The flop brought out and Hansen lead out for 60,000 and Sperling gave up his hand. Bussman tanked for a bit before he decided to move all in. Hansen tanked for four minutes before the clock was called, and the tournament director gave him a little more time before starting the 60-second countdown.
With about 15 seconds remaining Hansen made the call and he was looking for help.
Bussman:
Hansen:
According to the EPT Live stream Hansen has a 42% chance to win the hand, but the turn, the , and the on the river ended the Great Dane's tournament. We will see Hansen again in both Sanremo and Monte Carlo, as he spoke about on the PokerNews Podcast yesterday.
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It was a similar story to his Barcelona adventure for Ryan Spittles from the UK. Starting Day 3 with a very playable stack and then just not able to win a pot to finish just in the money.
He spoke briefly to Pokernews as he made his way out of the building. With 18 big blinds left, he explained, he three-bet jammed with over the active Rumen Nanev who called him with . The board ran out . Getting a flush draw and gut shot straight draw on the turn, but his two pair on the river gave his opponent the straight.
Spittles said that he planned to play Sanremo and the WSOP but wasn’t sure yet about Monte Carlo.
Justas Vaiciulionis moved all in from the small blind for 85,000 and Marko Neumann woke up with a monster hand in the big blind. The German pro made the call and the showdown went as following.
Neumann:
Vaiciulionis:
The board ran out and Neumann busted another player.
Two players had got to the river on a board reading . Jude Ainsworth from Ireland bet 68,000 and Jozsef Olah contemplated his choices. Ainsworth was in the 1 seat and Olah in the 9 so he couldn’t really give him much of a stare down. He made the call though and waited for Ainsworth to turn over his cards was the answer for an eight high bluff. Olah turned over his with a chuckle of relief and dragged the chips.
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was recently moved to the feature table, something he's not fond of, but his stay there was short.
Blom shoved his last 98,000 from the button after Robert Haigh had opened for 13,000 from early position. After the blinds got out of the way, Haigh called and Blom discovered the bad news.
Blom:
Haigh:
According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Haigh was a 73.06% favorite while Blom would survive 22.54% of the time.
The flop was no help to the Swede, and his chances dropped to 15.35% while Haigh's jumped to 81.92%. The turn paired Haigh, and he became a 90.91% favorite. Blom needed a queen and a queen only on the river to survive — something that would come just 9.09% of the time — but it wasn't in the cards as the blanked.