Thomas Gabriel raised to 600 from middle position and Josip Simunic called from one seat over. The hijack then three-bet to 2,000 and both Gabriel and Simunic called. On the , the action checked to the hijack and he continued for 2,000. Gabriel folded and Simunic check-raised to 7,500 in order to pick up a call.
On the turn, Simunic fired 13,000 and the hijack called before the EPT11 Deauville High Roller champion shoved the river for around 34,000. His sole opponent had around half the starting stack left and elected to fold.
On a flop of we saw both small bind Ari Engel and big blind Konstantin Puchkov check. Wiktor Malinouski, seated under the gun, bet 650. Engel check-raised to 2,300 and Puchkov called, Malinouski folded.
Engel bet another 4,200 on the -turn and Puchkov wasted no time calling.
The completed the board and Engel bet 8,600. Puchkov folded just about right away.
The tournament clock currently shows 123 entries and below are further additions to the field. William Kassouf won his seat in a Live Satellite and shares a table with Nicholas Palma, Kristen Bicknell and James Akenhead. The only other woman in the field thus far is Thi Xoa Nguyen.
Steven van Zadelhoff opened for 500 and his neighbor Sameer Khurana three-bet to 1,500 from the hijack. Saar Wilf flat called from the button and Van Zadelhoff called as well to make it three-handed.
The flop came and both Van Zadelhoff and Khurana checked. Wilf bet 2,500 and Van Zadelhoff folded, Khurana called. Both then checked the on the turn before the completed the board. Khurana checked again, and folded to Wilf's 5,000-bet.
From the hijack, Akin Tuna raised to 500 and Alexander Ivarsson three-bet to 2,000 from one seat over. "Okay, gamble," Tuna said and called. The flop came and both players checked. On the turn, Tuna bet 1,500 and Ivarsson called before the river went check, check. Tuna showed and Ivarsson claimed the pot with .
Hand 2
A preflop raising war between the duo saw Tuna four-bet to 4,525 and Ivarsson called. On the flop, Tuna continued for 8,500 and Ivarsson quickly folded.
Koray Aldemir raised to 525 and four players including the cutoff, Pierre Neuville on the button and the big blind called. On the flop, the action checked to Neuville and he bet 1,025. Only Aldemir called and then checked again the turn rather quickly.
Neuville bet 2,600 and Aldemir called before check-calling the river for 6,500. Neuville showed the and Aldemir chopped it with and a very confused look on the face. Isaac Haxton next to Aldemir laughed and Martin Finger joked to Neuville "good or bad river?"
On a flop of we saw Pierre Neuville check. Martin Finger bet 1,900 and Neuville called. Neuville check-called another 5,800 on the -turn. The saw both players check and Neuville tabled the winner with as Finger mucked.
Connor Drinan won the massive EPT13 Barcelona High Roller for a payday of €849,200 after defeating Mihails Morozovs heads up. While Morozovs was already in at the start of level one, Drinan only now took his seat on a table with Max Silver and Ben Heath.
Sam Greenwood, who won the second €25,500 Single-Day High Roller here in Prague two days ago, has joined the competition as well.
Martin Kozlov opened the cutoff and small blind Ivan Skoblov called. Skoblov check-called a bet of 800 on before both checked the on the turn and on the river. Skoblov showed while Kozlov showed . The two chopped the pot with the straight out on the board.