Claudio Di Giacomo shoved 3,100,000 — five big blinds — from the cutoff but found no customers. The last remaining non-French players jokingly raised his arms up in the air with a 'why don't you call'-look.
With the three short stacks around, it's mostly Julien Martini who's been raising it up and stealing the blinds and antes. Martini's successful raise and take its, as well as a small pot against Jean-René Fontaine, has moved him up to the 50M mark.
Claudio Di Giacomo has been folding hand after hand but finally, with just 1,200,000 — two big blinds — remaining, he found a hand with under the gun. Jerome L'Hostis auto-called with from the big blind.
Di Giacomo doubled after the board ran out and kept hanging around.
A total of 158 players out of a field of 3,287 returned to the Pau Casals room at Casino Barcelona for Day 2 of the 2018 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €550 EPT Cup and another Pineapple Flipout for the coveted Platinum Pass was up for grabs. The room was buzzing in preparation for Day 2 of the EPT Cup and the €100,000 Super High Roller, and all tables played one flipout to get to the semi-finals with two tables of 10 players. Among those were also Jackson White, Yorane Kerignard and Antonina Anapolska, but neither of them was fortunate enough to win their flip.
In the first semi-final, Mickael Vongsouthi hit a flush with to book his seat for the heads-up duel, while Rolando Camardese claimed his spot with . Vongsouthi and Camardese faced off in the final and it was Camardese, who hails from Maastricht in the Netherlands, that won his entry for the 2019 PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC) on The Bahamas worth $30,000 in total.
Both Jerome L'Hostis and Alberto Ah-Line got a shove through to add chips to their short stack. L'Hostis did it by shoving over a raise from Martini, while Ah-Line open-shoved with on the button. Both players remain below the 20 big blind mark.
Julien Martini raised to 1,200,000 from the cutoff, Claudio Di Giacomo shrugged and called all in from the small blind for 600,000 and Alberto Ah-Line called as well.
On the flop, Ah-Line checked, Martini bet 900,000 and Ah-Line called. The turn was the and Ah-Line check-folded to a 2,100,000 bet from Martini.
Claudio Di Giacomo:
Julien Martini:
The river was the and Di Giacomo quadrupled up. In the next hand, Martini raised to 1,600,000 but folded to a shove from Di Giacomo for not much more. Martini seems keen to leverage his position with the short stacks in play as long as possible.
Julien Martini raised to 1,600,000 from under the gun and Claudio Di Giacomo shoved for 2,500,000 all in on the button. Back on Martini — who folded earlier in a similar spot — he gave it some thought to weigh the pro's and cons and called it off after twenty seconds.
Claudio Di Giacomo:
Julien Martini:
The flop brought an extra sweat for Di Giacomo, but the turn and river remained safe. A loud "vamos" sounded from the rail as his friends celebrated the double.