First Break on Day 4
There are 47 players remaining and the first 90-minute level of the day has come to an end, 20-minutes break!
There are 47 players remaining and the first 90-minute level of the day has come to an end, 20-minutes break!
Yann Dion doubled up for 236,000 with against Miklos Zsuffa, who held . It was a preflop all in, but the flop would have had the same effect as well with both players hitting their set. Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Zsuffa is down to around two big blinds for the next level.
Marius Pospiech moved all in for his last 89,000 from the button and Miltiadis Kyriakides called from one seat over with . Pospiech had the and got there on the river of a board.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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Yann Dion | 500,000 | 350,000 |
Miltiadis Kyriakides | 470,000 | 36,000 |
Marius Pospiech | 210,000 | -90,000 |
Miklos Zsuffa | 25,000 | -158,000 |
Hossein Ensan raised to 20,000 and was called once before Jorma Nuutinen three-bet to 63,000 from the button. Carlo Citrone shoved for more than 360,000 from the small blind and everyone else folded. Citrone joked at the curios Ensan "you think it was a flip?" after the German mentioned he had folded pocket jacks.
"If you don't shove, I would have." Ensan added. Citrone then talked to the dealer to retrieve his cards and flipped over the .
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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Carlo Citrone | 462,000 | 197,000 |
Four players had limped for 10,000 including Mateusz Moolhuizen and Antoine Vranken. The action reached Jean-Christophe St-Pierre in the small blind and he moved all in for 191,000. Moolhuizen folded but Vranken announced all in himself to scare off the other two limpers.
St-Pierre:
Vranken:
The flop and the turn were still good for the Canadian, but the on the river sent St-Pierre to the rail.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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Antoine Vranken | 950,000 | 290,000 |
Jean-Christophe St-Pierre | Eliminado |
Nir Levy defended his big blind against Rudolf Wilhelm Zintel and bet the turn for 65,000. Zintel called and the on the river brought a check of the Israeli. Zintel bet 50,000 and was met with a quick fold.
One hand later, Zintel flat-called a raise from Manuel Zapf and paid off three streets of value against Zapf on a king-high board to muck against ,
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Manuel Zapf | 1,350,000 | 264,000 |
Rudolf Wilhelm Zintel | 1,080,000 | -20,000 |
Nir Levy | 530,000 | -189,000 |
Anton Kraus had defended his blind with and found trips seven on a flop of . The Bulgarian only check-called a continuation bet of Noah Vaillancourt before getting it in on a turn according to Nir Levy. Vaillancourt very much liked the turn card as he had pocket tens for a full house and the one-outer didn't come for Kraus.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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Noah Vaillancourt | 850,000 | 221,000 |
Anton Kraus | Eliminado |
Players love the all in triangle that's used on the EPT. When a player announces he's all in, the dealer throws out a PokerStars branded triangle to clearly signify the move for any opponents in the hand, and it saves the player in question unnecessarily moving his whole stack forward.
Ronny Voth must really love them as he's brought his own crystal/glass one (pics to follow) that you can get from the PokerStars VIP store and used it in a hand just now. He was battling heads-up with Sergio Aido on a . Voth was in the big blind and led for 70,000 on the turn and threw his all in triangle in on the river. The bet was for 124,000 and a pained looked Aido made the call.
Voth opened for two pair, beating out Aido's .
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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Ronny Voth | 510,000 | 121,000 |
Sergio Aido | 400,000 | -433,000 |
Joining the action on the turn, start-of-the-day chip leader Javier Gomez Zapatero bet 60,000 from under the gun and Rudolf Wilhelm Zintel called from two seats over to see the appear on the river. Gomez Zapatero fired again, making it 183,000 to go and Zintel had to think about the decision for some time.
The German eventually made the call and took down the pot with versus .
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Javier Gomez Zapatero | 1,260,000 | -438,000 |
Rudolf Wilhelm Zintel | 1,100,000 | 540,000 |
Carlo Citrone was all in and at risk for his last 121,000 with and Jorma Nuutinen, who had been storming through his table thus far, called with the . This time the Finn eventually lost an all in situation on a board of .
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Jorma Nuutinen | 1,460,000 | -220,000 |
Carlo Citrone | 265,000 | 129,000 |
Day 3 ended just before a money jump, meaning one man came back knowing he was going to get two grand less than everyone else. Torsti Kettula took the fall as the PokerStars Blog reports.