Shannon Shorr raised to 400 preflop from under-the-gun and got called by Nicholas Galtos and Guillaume Diaz before Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano made it 1,100. PokerStars Team Online member Marc-Andre Ladouceur cold-called in the cutoff and Shorr, Galtos and Diaz also made the call for a sizeable three-bet pot.
The flop came and it was checked to Pagano who bet 3,100. Ladouceur was the only player who called to see the on the turn. Pagano now checked and Ladouceur took over the betting, making it 6,100 to play. The Italian called to see the on the river, putting a straight on the board.
Pagano checked once more and Ladouceur bet 15,500. Pagano tanked for a couple of minutes before making the call.
"Straight," sighed Ladouceur, showing . Pagano showed for the chop.
Randal Flowers raised to 450 and Dimitar Danchev called from the button after which the other players folded. The flop brought out and Flowers continued with a bet of 500, Danchev called.
On the turn the hit and Flowers bet another 1,150 and Danchev called again. The river completed the board with the and Flowers bet 2,300, which was quickly called by Danchev.
"Top pair," Flowers announced before showing .
Danchev quietly showed and his set took down this pot.
Olivier Busquet is up to 33,000 already. The American won the UKIPT £2,000 High-Roller event last night for just over £107,000 and is hoping the good form continues in the EPT Main Event today.
Busquet called bets of 700 and 1,000 on the turn and river of a board with and although he'd missed his huge draw, the rivered pair of eights was enough to beat his opponent's .
Last night Anatoly Filatov bagged up the chip lead with 173,900 and right now Steven Watts is on pace to eclipse that number by a huge margin as he already sits on 120,000 chips after two levels.
Just now we saw on the table when Gianfranco Visalli had a bet of 7,625 out in front of him. Steven Watts had pushed enough chips forward to put Visalli all in, and after about two minutes he made the call for his tournament life.
Visalli:
Watts:
The river was the and Visalli was knocked out right before the first break.
Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Dermot Blain opened under-the-gun for 400 and got one caller, Leonard John Readle on the button. They saw a flop of and Blain check-called a bet of 600 as Readle started talking to him about the range of hands he might have. The turn was the and Blain checked again as Readle kept up the chatter and bet 1,100. When Blain called Readle said, “Really?”
The river was the and a last check from Blain saw a bet of 3,500 hit the felt. A lot of chatter from Readle saw Blain turn over the and fold. He wouldn't take the bet that Readle was offering that he had ace-king, keeping his money firmly in his pocket. Readle couldn't resist and showed him his prompting Blain to say, "I thought I was trapping, I was drawing dead."
Just then Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree arrived to sit to Readle's right. He took a swig of his pint and said, "I've got no chance now."
There was on open to 600 from an early position player which Ludovic Geilich called and then faced a raise from a player in late position. The original opener folded but Geilich decided to put the pressure back on with raise to 3,500. Action was back on his opponent who put out another raise to 6,400.
Geilich went into the tank for a couple of minutes and carefully counted his remaining 12,000 stack. At the end of his deliberations Geilich decided to respect the aggression and let his hand go. Not the best of starts for a player who is dangerous with chips but can’t seem to get anything going so far today.
Dave Ulliott at the same table is faring no better and is down to 6,225 at the start of level three.
With late registration open until the start of Day 2 we're already up to 370 total players for Day 1b. As of right now we've lost 19 players and that means 351 are currently playing poker in the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.
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and it was checked to Pagano who bet 3,100. Ladouceur was the only player who called to see the 
on the turn. Pagano now checked and Ladouceur took over the betting, making it 6,100 to play. The Italian called to see the 
on the river, putting a straight on the board.
. Pagano showed 
for the chop.
and Flowers continued with a bet of 500, Danchev called.
hit and Flowers bet another 1,150 and Danchev called again. The river completed the board with the 
and Flowers bet 2,300, which was quickly called by Danchev.
.
board with 
on the table when Gianfranco Visalli had a bet of 7,625 out in front of him. Steven Watts had pushed enough chips forward to put Visalli all in, and after about two minutes he made the call for his tournament life.
and Visalli was knocked out right before the first break.
and Blain check-called a bet of 600 as Readle started talking to him about the range of hands he might have. The turn was the 
and fold. He wouldn't take the bet that Readle was offering that he had ace-king, keeping his money firmly in his pocket. Readle couldn't resist and showed him his 
prompting Blain to say, "I thought I was trapping, I was drawing dead."
