Guillaume Diaz opened to 3,000 in late position. Behind him, Georgios Zisimopoulos three-bet to 7,700. Diaz moved all in to, slightly covering Zisimopoulos, and the Greek EPT regular called it off.
Guillaume Diaz:
Georgios Zisimopoulos:
It was a classic race, which got even more exciting with the flop. Zisimo's outs didn't show up on the turn nor river, sending him packing early on Day 2.
Anton Morgenstern raised, Fiodor Martino shoved for 24,000 and Kee Seow over-shoved to see Morgenstern snap-call with the second biggest stack of the trio.
Fiodor Martino:
Anton Morgenstern:
Kee Seow:
The board ran out blank and Morgenstern doubled for 43,100, eliminating Martino in the process. Seo was short with around 20,000 and soon after joined the rail also.
Mark Wagstaff raised to 2,000 from first positon. It was folded around to Paul McCartney on the button and he raised to 5,000. Wagstaff called.
The flop was and both players checked. The turn brought the and Wagstaff check-called a bet of 5,000. The river was the and now Wagstaff slid out a bet of 6,000.
McCartney wasn't happy with it but still opted to call. Wagstaff tabled for the straight. McCartney slammed his on the felt in frustration. "O my God", he sighed as he started counting his remaining chips.
Darya Hulyk has lost a big portion of her stack. She just faced a 15,500 river bet by Aliaksei Boika. The board was and Hulyk needed some minutes to think.
She finally threw in three blue 5,000-chips and one pink 500 one to call. Boika showed for the flush and Hulyk showed a little frustration when she mucked.
Olli Autio had only 1,000 chips left after he lost a big pot before. He just threw in his last chips and Hani Bahna raised to 2,200. Big blind Bejjani Kamal came along also.
The two active players checked it down as the board ran out . Autio had and was heading to the door as Kamal tabled .
Dietrich Fast and Peter Akery joined the feature table and Simon Trumper then saw a three-way flop with Akery and Brian Altman. Akery bet the flop for 4,200 and Trumper shoved for 16,600. Altman folded, but Akery reluctantly called to put Trumper at risk.
Simon Trumper:
Peter Akery:
The turn and river were blanks and Trumper doubled.
Jakub Michalak won the €10,300 Single-Day High Roller last night after cutting a three-way deal, and the former ISPT Wembley champion and top five ranked online player in Poland was just standing outside of the tournament area.
A quick chat revealed that he had busted. According to Michalak, he opened to 2,500 from the hijack with the and Guillaume Valle three-bet to 6,500 out of the small blind. Michalak called and the flop came rainbow.
Valle bet 7,000 and Michalak called before the on the turn gave him an open-ended straight draw and flush draw. Valle bet 14,000 and again Michalak called.
On the river, Valle checked and Michalak shoved for pot-size. Valle looked him up with for a straight and Michalak was gone, he could still laugh about it though. "At least I won last night," he added with a grin on the face.
Also eliminated: Russell Thomas, IPT High Roller champion Stefan Jedlicka and Peter Eichhardt.
The first level of the day has been good to Maria Ho so far. She more than doubled her stack by winning several smaller pots.
In one of them, she made a bet of 3,400 on a flop and got called by Paul McCartney. Mark Wagstaff who came along preflop, folded and it was heads-up to the turn.
The turn card was the and Ho fired again, this time for 5,600. McCartney directly folded his hand and Ho stacked some chips.
She then won some more against Sergey Sergeev. On a she slid out a bet of 9,300. Sergeev tanked for a short moment but eventually folded and Ho gained some more.