With 1,800 in the pot, four players saw a flop of and two checks saw Ari Engel bet 900. Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari folded from the button, Ireland's Marc Macdonnell called from the small blind, and the player in the big ditched.
After the dealer burned and turned the , Macdonnell checked and then called when Engel bet 2,000. Macdonnell checked for a third time on the river, and finally gave up when Engel bet 4,000.
Sarah talks to Shyam Srinivasan to get his thoughts about some bad blood that emerged when he and Maurice Hawkins were playing together on the PCA 2015 Feature Table.
EPT Deauville 2013 runner up and EPT Vienna 2014 side event champion Walid Bou Habib opened the hijack to 375 and Shannon Shorr on the button was the sole caller.
The flop came and Bou Habib bet 550. Shorr fired 1,300 to the middle and Bou Habib called.
Bou Habib check called another 1,900 on the turn and the fell on the river. With the board complete, Bou Habib checked again. Shorr fired 3,300 but was met by a snap call. Shorr flashed before mucking, Bou Habib took it down with his .
Shorr is still up for the day though, and so is Bou Habib.
Doug Lee is playing in his first-ever EPT Main Event, and he has the pleasure of sitting with both Fatima Moreira de Melo and Yann Dion, who could both be considered EPT veterans.
In a recent hand, the Netherlands' Bart Kuiper opened for 450 from the hijack and de Melo called from the cutoff. Lee then three-bet to 1,575 from the button, Kuiper called, and de Melo got out of the way. When the flop came down , Kuiper checked and Lee continued for 1,700. It did the trick as Kuiper quickly released his hand.
As we arrived on table 41 we saw a big hand taking place. Brian Yoon told us what had happened before we were there to witness the action.
Yoon opened to 300 and got a call from the button and Anton Wigg in the small blind before Danut Chisu in the big blind squeezed to 1,225. Yoon was the only one folding, both the button and Wigg called.
The flop came and Wigg checked. Chisu made a continuation bet of 2,500 and the button called. Wigg now check raised to 6,700 and both Chisu and the button called.
The turn came the and Wigg pushed all in. Danut Chisu called, the button folded.
Danut Chisu:
Anton Wigg:
Wigg needed a heart on the river to knock his neighbor out and got just that: ! Chisu got up from the table with a disappointed face while Wigg started stacking.
"Such a weird hand" Wigg said afterwards, "Good start of the day" he followed that up.
We missed the specifics, but we do know that Pagano got the last of his chips in on the turn with the board reading . Pagano held top pair with the , but it was behind the two pair of Horecki. The river failed to help Pagano, and he made his way downstairs to jump into the single-day €10K High Roller.
We missed the precise pre flop action but Ari Engel filled us in afterwards. The player in seat one had opened and Andre Akkari had three bet from the button. Irishman Marc MacDonnel had cold four bet from the big blind and just Akkari had called.
The flop came and MacDonnel had fired a continuation bet, which was called by Akkari.
MacDonnel bet another 5,900 on the turn and Akkari once again called in position.
The fell on the river and MacDonnel pushed all in by placing a stack worth 19,000 in the middle. Akkari, with about 13,000 behind, tanked long and hard but folded in the end.
"Bad river" MacDonnel said to Akkari, implicating that card might had prevented him from getting it all. "Didn't change too much" Akkari replied, later admiting to have had . MacDonnel didn't spoil what he had and started stacking.
With 2,150 in the pot and a flop of , Pavel Plesuv bet 1,200 from the small blind only to have Sebastian Malec raise to 3,400 from the cutoff. A call was made, the dealer burned and turned the , and Plesuv check-called a bet of 5,800.
When the completed the board on the river, Plesuv checked for a second time and then snap-folded when Malec moved all in for 13,700.
Dermot Blain opened from first position on his five handed table to 250. The big blind was the only caller and they were heads up to the flop.
The big blind checked on and Blain made a continuation bet of 250. The big blind called.
Both players checked the on the turn and the hit the river. The big blind bet out 400 and Blain didn't hesitate long before raising to 1,300. The big blind tanked for a bit but called in the end. Blain showed for a turned two pair that he had checked behind on that street. The big blind mucked and Blain started stacking.