Vladimir Novitckii seems to be interfering with Davidi Kitai’s game plan. He is sat to the direct left of the Belgian and has been getting involved frequently when Kitai opens the action.
Kitai opened to 32,000 and Novitckii called him. With the blinds getting out of the way they went to a flop of . They both checked to see a turn card and when Kiati checked a small bet from Novitckii saw Kitai give his neighbour a stare and slide his cards forward.
On the next hand Kitai opened again for 32,000 and this time Novitckii raised to 76,000. A more unhappy stare from Kitai followed and when the action got back round to him Kitai folded and said, I folded a big hand. Pocket tens.”
“You folded pocket tens?” Robin Ylitalo asked in surprise.
With Karin Bruteig already all in, Dominik Panka and Diogo Miranda got into a raising war with Miranda eventually six-betting all in and Panka snap-calling.
Bruteig:
Miranda:
Panka:
The main pot was worth around 500,000 while the side pot was almost 1.8 million. The board came , Panka let out a deep breath. He was almost out just over an hour ago and now he's one of the chip leaders.
There was a raise ahead of him and Daniel Dvoress flat called the 32,000 before it got to [Removed:146] in the big blind who raised it up to 90,000. The original raiser got out of the way and Dvoress four-bet to 175,000. Guerfi went for a small five-bet before calling a shove from Dvoress.
Guerfi had but had been trapped by the . The cards ran out and Guerfi who had the smaller stack was out of the tournament.
Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann told us the story behind his first ever European Poker Tour event, which was the first Grand Final in Monte Carlo. The tournament was ultimately won by Rob Hollink, who coincidentally knocked Heitmann out on Day 1.
Right now Heitmann's still alive on Day 4 with high hopes of finally getting his first EPT Main Event victory.