Sabina Hiatullah was sitting outside of the tournament area and that is never a good sign. After an early roller coaster, the Italian had a coin flip for her last 18,900 chips with and faced pocket eights. She did indeed find a king on the flop, but her opponent also an eight.
Liv Boeree raised to 3,200 on the button after one player had limped and only Nikolay Tsanev made the call from the small blind. On the flop and the turn, both players checked. Tsanev then bet 7,000 on the river and Boeree called after some consideration. Tsanev turned over for a busted flush draw and the Team PokerStars Pro raked in the chips with .
Team Online Pro Isaac Haxton raised it up to 2,000 from middle position and watched as the action folded around to Mikhail Petrov on the big blind. He committed his remaining 5,800 all in and was called shortly after.
Haxton:
Petrov:
The board ran out to see Petrov’s pair counterfeited by the two higher ones on the board giving Haxton the win with his nine-kicker.
Mike Leah was up to more than 120,000 chips already but just lost that profit of the first level after min-raising to 2,000 and tank-calling the all in of Yulius Sepman for 20,700. Leah had and the Russian turned over the slightly better kicker in .
Leah couldn't win the hand anymore after the turn of a and slipped back to five digits.
The below three players have increased their stack for the day significantly already and join the early big stacks on Day 2. Pablo Sanz Quiles bought into the tournament with FPP's accumulated by playing on PokerStars and Jakub Michalak won the (in)famous ISPT Wembley, he is also considered as one of the best online players from Poland.
Poker players are notorious for showing up late, but some of those who turned up on time today will wish that they hadn't. Whilst 13 new entries took the field over the 1,100 mark. The PokerStars Blog reports.
Shut Dzmitry raised from the button and then four-bet shoved for 40,100 chips after Claas Stoob had three-bet to 7,600 in the big blind. The German called with the slightly bigger stack and but Shut faded the over cards and flush draw of his opponent on a board of .
On a flop of George Danzer checked to Simon Boss on the button. The man from Switzerland bet out 10,000 and Danzer made the call. Both players checked the on the turn and the completed the board, making for four diamonds on a paired board.
Danzer checked again and Bos casually bet 25,000. This wasn't what Danzer had wanted to see, as he said "Ai ai ai" with a smile. "Got something good?" Danzer asked. Boss, like a boss, didn't reply, Kitty Kuo was the only one giggling.
After some seconds passed Danzer folded and Boss mucked. "Guess what I had" said Danzer as an open invitation to the table. Boss said "Flush?" and the dealer said "Set?"
Those two answers were clearly wrong, and Danzer said "I had two black cards, but they were really good!" "Aces?" someone asked, "Kings" Danzer added.
Christopher Frank was just seen eliminated from the tournament. Since he's the EPT London 2013 5th place finisher and WPT-N Vienna winner, we do give a damn about him.
His was up against Stefano Terziani's . The board came which gave the Italian a straight and Christopher Frank probably a headache.
From Mickey Petersen’s beard to the truth about cherry tomatoes. PokerStars Blog shares some wisdom.
A few examples:
No player has ever won an EPT Main Event with a first name that is also a former EPT stop. Baden Logan, in today's field, could put an end to that streak.
In February, George Danzer's mohawk was measured as the 18th longest ever recorded, but its recent trimming received a Highly Commended rosette at the 11th annual Hamburg Topiary Gala.
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