Most pots have been fairly small so far. A lot of three bets to 325,000 after 110,000 opens, but no calls yet. Jason Wheeler picked up a pot where he raised pre flop and delayed c-bet against two players, but it didn't get any more exciting than that. Helppi just shoved for 1.3 million (26 big blinds) from the small blind after a button open, but McDonald didn't want to invest any more chips and folded. Small pots so far.
Action folded to Juha Helppi in the small blind and he asked how much Nick Petrangelo was playing. Petrangelo answered he had about 650,000 and Helppi pushed all in. Petrangelo looked at his cards and called instantly.
Nick Petrangelo:
Juha Helppi:
The board ran out and Petrangelo doubled his 630,000 stack.
The first hand of the day went to Jason Wheeler who took it down with a delayed continuation bet against big blind Byron Kaverman on .
The second hand Sylvain Loosli opened the cutoff for 110,000 and Benjamin Pollak on the button three bet to 275,000. Big blind Mike McDonald cold four bet to 575,000 and both French players folded.
Eight players remain in the 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta €25,750 High Roller. Already guaranteed €67,990 at this point, the eight remaining players will battle it out for that first place prize of €498,575.
Play starts at 12:30 local time, in about an hour, with still almost a full hour left on the clock in level 18 (25,000/50,000 - 5,000 ante). Sam Greenwood is the man in charge with a stack worth almost 100 big blinds. Nick Petrangelo starts out as the short stack with just 13 big blinds.
The two remaining German players got knocked out at the same time last night to get down from 10 to 8. A redraw was done right after:
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Juha Helppi
Finland
2,215,000
44.3
2
Nick Petrangelo
United States
650,000
13
3
Sam Greenwood
Canada
4,775,000
95.5
4
Jason Wheeler
United States
930,000
18.6
5
Sylvain Loosli
France
2,065,000
41.3
6
Benjamin Pollak
France
1,365,000
27.3
7
Byron Kaverman
United States
2,970,000
59.4
8
Mike McDonald
Canada
3,500,000
70
Check back here in an hour for coverage of the EPT Malta High Roller. In the meantime you can check out our coverage of the Main Event which starts in just over half an hour. While you wait, take a look at our video interview with Jason Wheeler where he shares his vision on the movement away from third party software online:
and Petrangelo doubled his 630,000 stack.
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