€10,200 Single-Day High Roller | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

2015-10-26 17:04 UTC

The Recently Departed

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Nível 11 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

A few players have busted recently, though in a very short time. Among them was also Tom-Aksel Bedell, who was at risk in a battle of the blinds against Sam Greenwood for roughly 15 big blinds. Bedell held the and Greenwood the .

On the turn, Bedell had two over cards and the open-ended straight draw, yet the river bricked.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Sam Greenwood	305,000 160,000	160,000

Scott Seiver	Eliminado

Davidi Kitai	Eliminado

Connor Drinan	Eliminado
Salman Behbehani	Eliminado
Charlie Carrel	Eliminado
Tom-Aksel Bedell	Eliminado

Tags: Sam Greenwood Tom-Aksel Bedell

Nível: 11

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

2015-10-26 16:54 UTC

Juanda Scores Double Up

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Nível 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

In a battle of the blinds, John Juanda open-shoved for 104,500 and Christopher Frank called from one seat over. Juanda only had but got there on a board of to beat the of Frank and double up.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Christopher Frank	400,000 300,000	300,000
John Juanda	215,000 45,000	45,000

Tags: Christopher Frank John Juanda

2015-10-26 16:50 UTC

Mercier Keeps Climbing

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Nível 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

With about 165,000 in the middle on a board, Jason Mercier fired out a bet of 123,000 heads up with Mukul Pahuja.

He took his time about it, but Pahuja folded, claiming aces and allowing Mercier to climb even closer to the top of the leader board.

At the last break, Mercier had just 13 big blinds - Now he has some 75.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Jason Mercier	450,000 75,000	75,000

Tags: Jason Mercier Mukul Pahuja

2015-10-26 16:49 UTC

David Peters Leaves Early; Doubles

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Nível 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Jason Wheeler opened the action with a raise and then snap-called the shove of David Peters, who was all in and at risk out of the big blind for his last 37,000. Wheeler showed and Peters was in desperate shape with , stood up from his chair and was ready to go on the flop . However, the dealer burned and turned the and as final two community cards to give Peters an unlikely straight.

"That whole scenario seemed very unlikely," Charlie Carrel said and Wheeler replied back "Yeah. And this never works for me."

Almost at the same time, Liv Boeree exited the tournament area.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Jason Wheeler	269,000 19,000	19,000
David Peters	80,000 80,000	80,000

Liv Boeree	Eliminado

Tags: Charlie Carrel David Peters Jason Wheeler

2015-10-26 16:42 UTC

The Pots get Bigger

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Nível 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Adrian Mateos raised to 14,000 from under the gun and Shaun Deeb three-bet to 40,000 from a few seats over. The action got back to Mateos and he moved all in with pocket threes to put Deeb at risk for effectively 223,000. Deeb called with the and held up on the board .

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Shaun Deeb	450,000 350,000	350,000

Adrian Mateos	245,000 95,000	95,000

Tags: Adrian Mateos Shaun Deeb

2015-10-26 16:38 UTC

"Let's Play the Main Event"

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Nível 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Igor Kurganov was waiting for Liv Boeree and the latter joked "oh well let's play the Main Event then" with her two big blinds remaining. Kurganov was already busted and a few others had joined him on the rail recently as well.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Jose Carlos Garcia	Eliminado
Igor Kurganov	Eliminado
Christoph Vogelsang	Eliminado
Yingui Li	Eliminado

Orpen Kisacikoglu	Eliminado
Antonio Buonanno	Eliminado

Tags: Igor Kurganov Liv Boeree

Nível: 10

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

2015-10-26 16:30 UTC

Jorgensen Triples Up in Fortunate Circumstances

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Nível 9 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Liv Boeree is in need of a miracle after losing almost her entire stack to Theo Jorgensen. In fact it was a three-way all in, through which Jorgensen tripled up out of the big blind with . Ike Haxton's and Boeree's were cracked on the board and Jorgensen had 89,000 chips times three and the small blind and antes.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Theo Jorgensen	295,000 174,000	174,000

Isaac Haxton	140,000 -10,000	-10,000

Liv Boeree	10,500 -89,500	-89,500

Tags: Ike Haxton Liv Boeree Theo Jorgensen

2015-10-26 16:27 UTC

Mercier More Than Doubles

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Nível 9 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Davidi Kitai opened the action with a raise to 10,500 and Thomas Muehloecker three-bet to 27,500 from one seat over. Mukul Pahuja four-bet to 58,500 from the button and Jason Mercier five-bet shoved for 165,000. Kitai and Muehloecker quickly folded, Pahuja tank-called after giving it a lot of consideration.

Mercier:
Pahuja:

The board ran out and the Team PokerStars Pro moved back above average.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Mukul Pahuja	390,000 195,000	195,000
Jason Mercier	375,000 314,000	314,000

Thomas Muehloecker	290,000 75,000	75,000
Davidi Kitai	190,000 -85,000	-85,000

Tags: Davidi Kitai Jason Mercier Mukul Pahuja Thomas Muehloecker