€5,300 Main Event Dia 1a | 2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

2016-10-23 22:18 UTC+2

It Is Not too Late to Join

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Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Tom-Aksel Bedell and Scott Seiver joined the competition in level seven and headed to their tables with a fresh stack of 30,000 chips. Seiver found himself with a usual High Roller opposition in Viatcheslav Buldygin, Charlie Carrel and Paul Newey while Bedell faces Dmitry Yurasov and Stephen Chidwick.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Tom-Aksel Bedell	30,000
Scott Seiver	30,000

Tags: Dmitry Yurasov Stephen Chidwick Paul Newey Viatcheslav Buldygin Tom-Aksel Bedell

2016-10-23 22:16 UTC+2

Easy Come, Easy Go

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Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Bart Fergiatakis faced the bet of 6,500 by Damien Luis on the river of a board reading and moved all in. Luis called for 16,800 and showed the , Fergiatakis only held .

Luis then lost a big three-bet pot to Bart Maes and the latter knocked out Fergiatakis soon after. Fergiatakis was all in for 1,000, Maes raised to 4,000 and the rest of the table folded. Fergiatakis showed the and Maes claimed the pot with on a board of .

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Bart Maes	60,000	60,000
Damien Luis	40,000	-15,000
Bart Fergiatakis	Eliminado

Tags: Bart Fergiatakis Bart Maes Damien Luis

2016-10-23 22:10 UTC+2

Buldygin Doubles through Jaweed

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Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Viatcheslav Buldygin raised to 1,500 and Romal Jaweed three-bet to 4,200 on the button. "How much? Okay, I call," Buldygin said and checked the flop . Jaweed bet 8,000 and Buldygin said "why so much? that's almost what I have left," then moved all in half a minute later.

Jaweed called it off for 14,800 in total and showed the , Buldygin was ahead with . The turn and the river changed nothing and the Russian doubled.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Viatcheslav Buldygin	38,000	-9,000
Romal Jaweed	25,200	-12,800

Tags: Romal Jaweed Viatcheslav Buldygin

2016-10-23 22:04 UTC+2

Fluri's Aces are Good

Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

After the turn, the board was and Alain Fluri threw in a bet of 2,000. With 10,000 already in the middle, James Akenhead made the call.

The touched the felt on the river and Fluri fired a second barrel. This time, it was for 6,000. Akenhead called but mucked when he saw Fluri's .

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Alain Fluri	64,000
James Akenhead	36,000	-7,000

Tags: James Akenhead Alain Fluri

2016-10-23 21:54 UTC+2

Kisacikoglu Folds to More Aggression

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Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Marcello Miniucchi raised from under the gun and picked up four callers including Orpen Kisacikoglu and Luca Granieri in the big blind. On the flop, Granieri and Miniucchi checked. Kisacikoglu bet 4,000 and the action folded back to Granieri. He check-raised to 10,000 and Granieri folded. Kisacikoglu carefully checked his remaining stack and then elected to fold as well.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Luca Granieri	50,000	34,000
Orpen Kisacikoglu	17,000	7,000

Tags: Luca Granieri Orpen Kisacikoglu Marcello Miniucchi

2016-10-23 21:51 UTC+2

Kursa Busts to Boika

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Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Toomas Kursa open-shoved for his last 9,500 or so from middle position and the action folded around to Aliaksei Boika in the small blind. The Belorusian reshoved and the big blind folded.

Kursa:
Boika:

The board ran out and ace-high claimed the pot to send Kursa to the rail.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Aliaksei Boika	78,000	15,100
Toomas Kursa	Eliminado

Tags: Toomas Kursa Aliaksei Boika

2016-10-23 21:44 UTC+2

Brand Gives Up

Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Right back from the break, [Removed:155] was up against his fellow dutchman Jeroen Soons.

The flop was already dealt and it was . With 4,500 in the middle he bet 2,600 and Soons made the call.

The turn was the and Brand fired again. This time, the bet was 7,500 and he got a call.

On the river, the completed the board and Brand gave up. He checked, and mucked when Soons checked behind.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
[Removed:155]	73,000	-14,000
Jeroen Soons	69,000	19,000

Tags: Jeroen Soons

2016-10-23 21:40 UTC+2

Shak Starts Well

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Nível 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Davide Suriano raised to 1,500 and Dan Shak made it 4,000 to go on the button. Suriano asked for the count, then called and checked the flop of . Shak continued for 6,000 and Suriano folded. Shak quickly flashed one of his cards and then slid them towards the muck, Suriano asked what it was and Shak pulled out the . "That's just one of the two cards you were gonna see," Shak added.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Dan Shak	90,000	-5,000
Davide Suriano	35,000	12,000

Tags: Dan Shak Davide Suriano

Nível: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 100

2016-10-23 20:17 UTC+2

Dinner Break on Day 1a with Sormunen in the Lead

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Nível 6 : 250/500, 75 ante

Six out of the eight scheduled 75-minute levels are done and the players have been sent into a 75-minute dinner break.

Day 1a started with an insane rush for Ireland's Mahmood Rasheed, as he first had a full house with eights over kings against an inferior full house, followed by quads kings and boosted his stack to more than 65,000. Soon after, Martin Kozlov made quads nines against his jacks and Rasheed was cut back down before eventually departing in level six. Kozlov himself has last been spotted with around 20,000 while Pasi Sormunen on the same table tore apart his opponents.

Sormunen sent Dario Sammartino and Rasheed to the rail and also took care of Max Silver and Stephan Zesiger. Silver shoved short with pocket fours, Zesiger just called with kings and Sormunen saw a flop with the . Ultimately, the open-ender of the Finn got there on the river to crack two sets and Sormunen went on to accumulate 174,000 by now.

Other big stacks include Sergey Sergeev (130,000), Graydon Kowal (102,000), Dan Shak (83,000), Paul McCartney (80,000), Dmitry Yurasov (80,000), Thomas Mjeldheim (78,000) and Jakub Michalak (74,000). Sergeev got lucky early on to crack the pocket kings of Jens Luebbe with pocket queens, then steam-rolled up his stack. Shak got it in with a jack-high flush draw against Luke Marsh's ace-queen and hit a jack on the river for a massive double.

Early casualties included Caitlin Hall, EPT12 Dublin 5th place finisher Iliodoros Kamatakis and Jorryt van Hoof. Fatima Moreira de Melo had her aces cracked when Anatoly Korochenskiy turned quads tens and the German High Roller regulars Philipp Gruissem and Martin Finger lasted less than half an hour each before also joining the rail.

Other notables still in include Ole Schemion (49,000), Adrian Mateos (45,000), Juha Helppi (42,000), Charlie Carrel (33,000) and Connor Drinan (19,000). They will all return at approximately 9.30 p.m. local time and play another two levels, bagging and tagging then takes place around midnight. In the meanwhile, you can also read up on [Removed:17]'s victory in the €25,750 Super High Roller.

Tags: Pasi Sormunen