World Cup Fever Takes Over the EPT
As we head into tonight's World Cup semi-final clash, players in the PokerStars' Football Fanzone gave their thoughts ahead of the action.
As we head into tonight's World Cup semi-final clash, players in the PokerStars' Football Fanzone gave their thoughts ahead of the action.
On a board of , Ermanno Di Nicola slid out a stack of blue chips equating to 105,000, covering Aliaksei Boika, into a pot of 77,000.
With the action on Boika, deep in the tank, the clock was called and Boika had thirty seconds to make a decision.
As the clock wound down Boika throw a single chip into the middle and Di Nicola tapped the table quickly as he flipped for fourth pair. Boika flipped and took down a large pot at this stage of the tournament.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Aliaksei Boika
|
143,000 | 115,000 |
Ermanno Di Nicola | 67,000 | -48,000 |
With some 4,000 in the middle, Jack Sinclair was all-in and at risk for 11,000 on a flop to get called by Dmitry Shchepkin.
Jack Sinclair:
Dmitry Shchepkin:
The turn gave Shchepkin two pair but Sinclair spiked the river to survive.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Dmitry Shchepkin | 80,000 | |
Jack Sinclair | 26,000 | -1,000 |
Claudio Di Giacomo raised to 1,600 in middle position and action folded to Fouad Toujani who reraised all in for his remaining 4,100. Di Giacomo made the call and the players tabled their hands.
Fouad Toujani:
Claudio Di Giacomo:
The board ran out and Toujani found the double up with his full house.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Claudio Di Giacomo | 32,000 | 32,000 |
Fouad Toujani | 10,000 | 10,000 |
The UK's Benjamin Winsor had just registered in the previous level and he has already more than doubled up his stack, largely due to a recent showdown hand. In a battle cutoff versus small blind, his opponent checked the river and Winsor bet 19,500 to receive a reluctant call.
Winsor tabled the for a full house and won the very healthy pot. His opponent was left short and busted to be replaced with Arthur Conan.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Georgi Sandev | 90,000 | -15,000 |
Benjamin Winsor | 65,000 | 65,000 |
Rui Bouquet | 60,000 | 60,000 |
Arthur Conan | 45,000 | 45,000 |
Paraskevas Tsokaridis | 40,000 | -15,000 |
With 9,000 to the middle on a board of , Jakub Koleckar was all-in for 17,700. Pascal Frezza eventually called and was quite upset to get shown the for a straight. Frezza tabled the for a set and dropped well below the starting stack.
The table now also features Julian Thomas and Rainer Kempe while Gaelle Baumann is the chip leader.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Gaelle Baumann | 100,000 | 5,000 |
Rainer Kempe | 55,000 | 55,000 |
Julian Thomas | 45,000 | 45,000 |
Jakub Koleckar | 45,000 | 45,000 |
Pascal Frezza | 15,000 | -33,000 |
Bets of 1,500 and 10,500 respectively were already pulled into the middle of the table to the river on which Tobias Garp checked his option. Fabian Bernhauser then moved all-in with a near identical stack as the Swede and Garp eventually elected to fold.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
David Dahan | 150,000 | 60,000 |
Fabian Bernhauser | 70,000 | 45,000 |
Tobias Garp | 37,000 | 37,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Danilo Velasevic | 127,000 | 87,000 |
Jessica Pilkington | 105,000 | 25,000 |
Paul Newey | 65,000 | |
Parker Talbot | 51,000 | 17,000 |
Steven Warburton | 49,000 | 49,000 |
Fedor Holz | 33,000 | 33,000 |
Jack Sinclair | 27,000 | -36,000 |
Jen Shahade | 26,000 | -2,000 |
William Kassouf
|
18,600 | 18,600 |
Julien Martini | 17,000 | 17,000 |
Antoine Saout | 13,000 | -17,000 |
Fatih Aydin shoved his remaining 8,100 from early position and picked up the lone call from Hannes Pflanzl. Aydin was the player at risk and the players tabled their hands.
Fatih Aydin:
Hannes Pflanzl:
Aydin needed some help to keep his tournament dream alive but could not improve on the run out and made his way to the exit.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Hannes Pflanzl | 46,000 | 46,000 |
Fatih Aydin | Eliminado |
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Juan Pardo | 130,000 | 70,000 |
Ismail Kalkan | 105,000 | 105,000 |
Manuel Ruivo | 95,000 | 95,000 |
Dominik Desset | 85,000 | 72,000 |
Bhavin Khatri | 80,000 | 53,000 |
Derek Ip | 62,000 | 22,000 |
Ondrej Drozd | 60,000 | 28,000 |
Florencio Campomanes | 55,000 | 55,000 |
David Boyaciyan | 50,000 | 10,000 |
Stoyan Obreshkov | 43,000 | 9,000 |
Jacek Pustula | 40,000 | 40,000 |
Alex Kulev | 38,000 | 9,000 |
Ghattas Kortas | 35,000 | 35,000 |
Alexandros Kolonias | 32,000 | 32,000 |
Symeon Alexandridis | 28,000 | -4,000 |