Benny Spindler raised to 1,400 from the cutoff and Brian Yoon defended his big blind to see the flop . Yoon checked and then called a continuation bet worth 1,600 by Spindler. Both checked the on the turn and Yoon checked the river as well. Spindler now bet 5,000 and that enforced a fold.
Next to Spindler is yet another very dangerous player in Mustapha Kanit. The Italian won two EPT High Roller titles already and also came third at the €25,000 High Roller Event of the World Series of Poker Europe a week ao as well.
There have been 154 entries so far, of which 139 currently remain and seven of the participants opted to purchase a second bullet after running out of chips in the first attempt.
Until the river of a board , a pot of around 26,000 chips had emerged and Andreas Christoforou bet 15,000 out of the big blind. Jake Cody was contemplating a decision and grabbed three T-5,000 chips in the cutoff seat, almost having them cross the virtual line for a call. Christoforou almost looked excited and Cody gave it some more thought before folding, it would have cost half his stack.
After the hand was over, Mike McDonald asked if there was any specific rule as to when the chips cross the line and Christoforou replied "it was my mistake, I got a bit too excited."
Happy to be in mostly sunny Malta after a cold and rainy WSOP Europe in Berlin, Theo Jorgensen talked to PokerNews' Sarah Grant after winning the €1,000 + 100 No-Limit Hold'em Hyperturbo Bounty. Check out the video below:
Emil Ekvardt had previously doubled up his short stack twice and now did so one more time through Thomas Muehloecker. On the three-way flop , Igor Yaroshevskyy checked from under the gun and Muehloecker bet 3,000 from the button. Ekvardt shoved for 13,150 and Yaroshevskyy folded, Muehloecker caleld after some consideration.
Ekvardt:
Muehloecker:
Any diamond except for the would have resulted in the seat open for Ekvardt, but instead the board filled up with the turn and the river.
The screens once again have been updated and currently show 137 entries for Day 1 with half time not reached yet.
Among the new faces are also Dominik Panka, Connor Drinan and Rasmus Agerskov. The former two just saw the river of a board and Panka bet for 4,000 out of the small blind for half the pot. Drinan gave it some thought and then folded.
David Peters and Nick Petrangelo talk about their remarkable year at the tables and whether they think success breeds success in poker. Check it out over at the PokerStars Blog.
Ricardo Alvarado started very well but has dropped quite some chips since while former World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Ivan Demidov, Adrian Mateos and [Removed:17] have increased their stacks.