2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Nível: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Turkish Delight
Turkish player Osman Mustanoglu has joined the group at the top of the counts that currently sits with over 100,000 chips.
His big move up the leader board came when one player decided to squeeze four-bet rags into his pocket aces. Most of the rest were collected when another opponent turned a set of tens against his pocket queens.
Mustanoglu made a set of his own on the river and was forced to make a big call with four diamonds and a possible Broadway straight on the jack-high board, but managed to pull the trigger, and has 105,000 now as a result.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Osman Mustanoglu | 105,000 |
The Chip Count Spectrum
EPT12 Dublin Main Event third-place finisher Kully Sidhu and Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin sit beside each other, but on opposite ends of the chip count spectrum right now.
Sidhu got over the 100,000-chip mark when he flopped top set of tens and got it in against one opponent willing to gamble with a flush draw. Needless to say, he bricked, giving Sidhu his stack.
But not before Sidhu doubled Lin, who jammed her short stack with smack into his pocket queens, finding a king on the river to survive.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Kully Sidhu |
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
Celina Lin |
22,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Geilich Doubles Ones Up
Ludovic Geilich just raised to 950 and from his direct right it was Marko Koprivca who moved all in for his last 5,475. The action folded back to Geilich, who did some thinking before putting in the call.
Geilich:
Koprivica:
The board ran out and Koprivica doubled up.
"He's not supposed to have that card," Geilich joked at his hand being dominated.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Ludovic Geilich |
52,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Marko Koprivica
|
12,000 |
Moreira de Melo Jams on Gu
Team PokerStars SportsStar Fatima Moreira de Melo just raised to 1,000 and Huidong Gu three-bet to 3,000, and the Dutch former professional athlete made the call.
The flop brought and Moreira de Melo check-raised Gu's bet from 5,700 to 15,000 and Gu went into the tank. Eventually Gu made it 35,000 and Moreira de Melo went all in for 81,575.
Gu tanked for several minutes, flashed the before throwing his cards into the muck.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Fatima Moreira de Melo |
125,000
34,500
|
34,500 |
Huidong Gu |
40,000
-54,000
|
-54,000 |
Dinner Break!
With six levels done the 75-minute dinner break starts now. Play will resume at approximately 9:30 p.m. with two more levels of play scheduled.
Nível: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Post Dinner Daher
Lebanon's Albert Daher continues to lead following the dinner break, now cresting the 200,000-chip mark and pounding away at his table with value bet after value bet.
The latest came when he bet 11,000 on the river of a board. His heads-up opponent paid off and Daher showed him the goods, having turned the into a straight.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Albert Daher |
212,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
Negreanu Joins the Grand Final, And Faces a Tanker
After a rant about how the Toronto Raptors will get crushed tonight versus the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the first round of the NBA playoffs, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu shifted his focus to the poker action.
Negreanu folded the first hand of his EPT Grand Final - the tournament he almost won in 2013, finishing fourth for €321,000 - and another player raised to 1,100. After a third player made the call, the action was on Markku Koplimaa.
Koplimaa tanked quite some time before Negreanu chimed in.
"What are you thinking about?" Negreanu said, "You for sure know what you're going to do at this point."
"Tick-tock, the clock don't stop!" Negreanu added, before Koplimaa finally three-bet.
Both Koplimaa's opponent quickly folded, and the Estonian added some more to his big stack.
Seemingly unfazed Koplimaa said with a smile, "I like playing with you, you're funny."
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Markku Koplimaa |
168,000
168,000
|
168,000 |
Daniel Negreanu |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Daniel Dvoress |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |