€5,300 Main Event Dia 1b | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Malta

2015-03-24 00:28 UTC+2

Eliminated

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Julian Track, who shared his intention to never ever play live poker again right after he won EPT Prague for €725,000 back in 2013 but cashed in tournaments all over the world ever since nonetheless, has been eliminated. He wasn't the only one by the way, a battalion of familiar faces have been eliminated.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Niall Farrell	Eliminado
Eugene Katchalov	Eliminado
Mustapha Kanit	Eliminado
Pratyush Buddiga	Eliminado
Juha Helppi	Eliminado
Ognjen Sekularac	Eliminado
Jens Lakemeier	Eliminado
Julian Track	Eliminado
Georgios Sotiropoulos	Eliminado
Lasse Frost	Eliminado
Norbert Szecsi	Eliminado
Pieter van Gils	Eliminado

2015-03-24 00:27 UTC+2

Big Three-Way Clash Sends Diaz out of his Chair

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

A loud shout from Gilbert Diaz alerted the bloggers and he celebrated, having laying in front of him. What had happened?

Diaz opened to 1,600 and Lee Taylor raised to 4,000 from one seat over before Antonio Luft flat-called from the button. Diaz now shoved for 50,000 and Taylor had about as much and moved all in as well. Luft tanked for quite some time and called off with .

Taylor had the third premium pocket pair in but was sent to the rail after a board.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Gilbert Diaz	150,000	150,000
Antonio Luft	68,000	-86,000
Lee Taylor	Eliminado

Tags: Antonio Luft Gilbert Diaz Lee Taylor

2015-03-24 00:24 UTC+2

Ziiiiiiigmund!

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

We're not sure if Ilari Sahamies has been playing all day and we just missed him, or that he just bought in. We are sure he's in the field right now.

Sahamies, the biggest winner online on PokerStars so far this year, has taken his seat on table 32. He's sharing the table with Austrian Gerald Karlic and Dutchman Bram Haenraets.

Sahamies sat down, looked us straight in the face, and then replicated what he did 1.5 years ago in Barcelona when Negreanu bursted into our interview.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Ilari Sahamies	30,000

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2015-03-24 00:22 UTC+2

Unfortunate Exit For Strong

Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Rob Strong started the day out pretty well, but a friend of his explained to us how he busted out in a pot worth 80,000 chips. Strong held pocket kings while the player on his right held ace-king. The river brought an ace and Strong was knocked out from this event.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Rob Strong	Eliminado

Tags: Rob Strong

2015-03-24 00:18 UTC+2

Silver Binks One Outer against Benhamou

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Max Silver has had a pretty sick rush lately and the biggest pot came off the elimination of Brian Benhamou. After a rainbow flop, a four-bet pot emerged with Silver putting Benhamou at risk with pocket fives. The Frenchman had pocket eights for the higher set but the turn brought the case five left in the deck.

Soon after, Silver also got three streets of value from a nutflush and is suddenly all the way up to 170,000 chips.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Max Silver	170,000	154,000
Brian Benhamou	Eliminado

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2015-03-24 00:12 UTC+2

A Few Big Stacks

Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Kyle Hendry	155,000	155,000
Nir Levy	150,000	20,000
Rudolf Zintel	140,000	140,000
Alexander Lakhov	138,000	53,000
Noah Vaillancourt	118,000	19,000
Jake Cody	100,000	65,000

2015-03-24 00:08 UTC+2

More for Margets

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

A player in middle position opened for 1,100 in the last level and Leo Margets made the call from the hijack. Her neighbor in the cutoff three bet to 3,200 and just Margets made the call, the initial raiser folded before her.

Both players checked the flop and Margets lead out for 5,000 on the turn. Margets' opponent made the call and the Spanish PokerStars Team Pro bet another 13,600 when the completed the board.

Margets her opponent tanked for quite some time before eventually folding.

Pim de Goede, seated on the button in this hand, later commented he had folded pocket tens before in a discussion about the hand. "She's running out of cards" Sam Trickett laughed. Marget said she would have been in a sick spot if her opponent had raised her on the river, but admitted she would probably had called.

What she had? We will probably never know.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Leo Margets	95,000	-11,000

Tags: Leo Margets Pim de Goede Sam Trickett

2015-03-23 23:53 UTC+2

Dzmitry Urbanovich’s Remarkable Hat-Trick

Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

The festival is not even half-way through, but a 19-year-old Pole is taking EPT Malta by storm, winning three titles inside a week. PokerStars Blog tries to learn the very simple secrets behind the sensational success of Dzmitry Urbanovich.

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2015-03-23 23:48 UTC+2

Duhamel On the Rise

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

Jonathan Duhamel was down to as low as 16,000 chips today but has staged a nice comeback. In one of the last few hands, the Canadian defended his big blind against the raise of his opponent from under the gun and saw the flop of . The Canadian check-raised from 1,300 to 3,000 and that did the trick, as his opponent folded.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Jonathan Duhamel	55,000	37,000

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Nível: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75