Heitmann's pocket fours spiked a set on a flop of against the pocket aces of Hallaert. The money was all-in but the turn and river ran out to give Heitmann a huge double up to around 160,000 while Hallaert is left lamenting missed opportunities with around 45,000.
2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo
PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final
Day: 3
Heitmann's pocket fours spiked a set on a flop of against the pocket aces of Hallaert. The money was all-in but the turn and river ran out to give Heitmann a huge double up to around 160,000 while Hallaert is left lamenting missed opportunities with around 45,000.
We caught the action in the hand on the river with the board reading and Hachem with an 80,000-chip bet into opponent Peter Traply. Traply thought for a few moments before making the call, showing which was good to collect the pot worth over 200,000 chips. Hachem calmly tapped the table, saying "Nice call" as he proceeded to muck his hand.
That's when the real action started. Woody Deck, who was not involved in the hand, then asked to see Hachem's cards. Hachem replied that he didn't have to show since the winning hand had already been shown, and the dealer proceeded to muck his cards.
Deck then said to Hachem something along the lines of, "Are you trying to angle shoot or something? Don't be an asshole!"
Hachem, who at this stage was standing up to walk away from the table, then turned and in an incredible outburst, leaned across the table over Deck with a barrage of intimidating replies!
Hachem appeared set to physically take Deck apart before Antonio Esfandiari lept up from a nearby table and held Hachem back. By this stage security had stepped between Hachem and the table until things calmed down. Hachem then took a walk outside to cool off as the crowd frenzy settled down and play returned to some normality.
"That's not what I wanted to see," said Stig, referring to Udine's hand. "I was hoping he had king-six!"
The river, though meaningless, was the , and Valeriy raked in the pot, bringing his chip stack up to ~170,000.
Andrew Teng also found himself all in with a dominated ace. Teng's was always in trouble against Jonathan Dwek's and the board of didn't provide any miracles as Teng also found himself eliminated.
Finally a short-stacked Mel Judah found an A-7 to push the last of his chips in the middle, but Felipe Ramos made the call with pocket deuces. The board didn't provide any help for Judah who busted out just short of the money.
Sorel Mizzi - 250,000
Luca Pagano - 220,000
Pierre Hall - 104,100
Valeriy Ilikyan - 86,000
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300