Peter Jaksland opened to 1,300 from under the gun and Sylvain Loosli three-bet to 3,500 from the next seat over. Jeremy Routier then cold four-bet jammed from the cutoff, leading Jaksland to fold.
Loosli gave an unhappy shrug and called off with his stack of around 19,000.
Sylvain Loosli:
Jeremy Routier:
Loosli had run into aces and received no help as the board ran out to mark the Frenchman's elimination.
Poker tournament seat draws often throw up interesting little quirks. For example, yesterday the 2019 WSOP Main Event winner and runner-up — Hossein Ensan and Dario Sammartino — were seated at the same table.
Today it's the turn of the reigning WSOP Main Event champion Espen Jorstad, and his Tag Team bracelet-winning partner Patrick Leonard to be sat at the same table. PokerNews sat in on an orbit to see if the two would tangle or leave each other alone.
Hand #1: On the very first hand, Espen Jorstad raised from the cutoff to 1,200 and it folded to Patrick Leonard in the big blind who folded.
Hand #2: It folded around to Leonard in the small blind who limped blind on blind against Timo Kamphues who raised to 1,800. Leonard called and the pair checked the flop and turn.
Leonard bet 1,000 on the river and Kamphues folded.
Hand #3: Both Jorstad and Leonard folded.
Hand #4: Jorstad and Leonard both folded.
Hand #5: Jorstad folded from under the gun and Leonard folded the hijack.
Hand #6: Rehman Kassam raised to 1,000 and Patrick Leonard three-bet to 3,200. Kassam called.
Kassam check-called 4,200 on the flop and the pair checked the turn. The river was the and Kassam bet 16,000. Leonard folded.
Hand #7: Leonard folded and Jorstad didn't defend his small blind.
Hand #8: Leonard folded from under the gun, with Espen Jorstad raising to 1,100 from the button. Kassam defended his big blind. The pair checked the flop and Kassam check-folded to a bet of 1,000 on the turn.
Zak Lawson was in the big blind in a heads-up pot against Askar Bekbayev in the hijack on a monotone board of .
Lawson checked on the flop and Bekbayev bet 1,200. Lawson called. Lawson checked again on the turn and Bekbayev checked back.
Lawson checked a third time on the river and Bekbayev also checked, leading Lawson to turn over the winner with for a rivered flush and bringing a wince out of Bekbayev.
Last year, Parker Talbot said that he was looking forward to the return of live poker, just not for the reason you thought:
"I just want to see my friends, honestly," Talbot told PokerNews. "The majority of my best buds live on the other side of the world and we often meet up on the European Poker Tour and the like, so the fact we haven't been able to travel for live events has been brutal."
Since then Talbot has cashed on the EPT in Barcelona and here in London and is enjoying getting stuck back into the live poker felt. He's just jumped into Day 1b of the EPT London Main Event.
Steven Watts opened to 1,100 from the cutoff and Erik Seidel, who busted earlier and recently bought back in, flat-called on the button. Juan Pardo then three-bet to around 5,000 from the big blind and only Seidel called.
The flop landed and Pardo continued with a bet of about 5,500. Seidel put out a stack of blue 5,000-denomination chips to put Pardo all in and the £10,200 Mystery Bounty winner folded to hang on to his remaining 11,000.