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Michael Frederic opened the pot to 18,000, and Sorel Mizzi moved all in for 137,000 in position. Action came to big blind Javier Garcia, and he appeared to be thinking sinister thoughts. After a long pause, he cut out the correct amount of chips and announced a call. Frederic thought it over for another minute before passing and letting the other two duke it out with Mizzi's tournament life on the line. Cards up, gents:
Mizzi:
Garcia:
"Good game," Mizzi said, standing from his chair with a big sigh. Ah, but not so fast, Mr. Imper1um. The board ran out in his favor, coming . That spells a much needed double up for the short stack, and he's back in to contention with about 310,000 now.
After the hand, Allen Bari shook Mizzi's hand. Bari smirked and said, "Good game," and the two men exchanged a little chuckle.
"It works online when I said it," Mizzi said. "So I figured it works live too."
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It appears that Marafioti's chatter about bumping the payouts up to the top twelve is not gaining any momentum whatsoever. The staff will not, in all likelihood, allow the payout structure to be changed after it was set. If each of the remaining players agreed, they could break it down however they saw fit, but that's an unofficial matter amongst the players themselves.
As it stands, though, nobody is really giving Marafioti the time of day, and he seems to have given up. "That's it. I'm done complaining. I've asked five times already."
Eight players will be paid for this High Roller event, and that's that.
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Luke Schwartz made it 18,000 to go before Markus Golser made it 52,000. Schwartz asked Golser how much he was playing and told him they both had about the same stacks. Schwartz then moved all-in and was called instantly by Golser, to which Schwartz flipped over his cards and said, "F***."
Schwartz:
Golser:
When the flop hit the felt, Schwartz knocked over a stack of his chips.
The fell on the turn, and Schwartz said, "Well, that's more outs." And sure enough, the fell on the river giving Schwartz the straight.
"You lot are f***ed now," he said. As the dealer and tournament director were counting out the chips, Schwartz said "It was a hero donk call. I didn't like it either, but f*** it."
Golser and Schwartz were even in chips, so Golser made his exit and Schwartz had a few new stacks to play with.
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Chad Brown moved all in with and a dangerously shortening stack, and he found a call from chip daddy Olivier Busquet. Brown was trailing but drawing live against .
Board: .
In fairly uneventful fashion, Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown has been eliminated in 14th place. As always, the gregarious Brown shook hands with his table mates, told them it was a pleasure playing with them, and wished them luck on his way out the door.
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Matt Marafioti has been complaining about the payout structure since the minute they announced it. With 113 starting players, this event is only paying 8 places as per the standard EPT payout scale. Marafioti, for one, is not impressed.
We've heard him vocalizing his dislike for the payouts for several days now, literally every few orbits or so. Just before dinner, he was once again looking for EPT host Neil Johnson. "I mean, where is that guy?!" Marafioti said, spinning his head around the room. "We have the Main Event final table, and the final two tables in the High Roller, and I haven't seen him for days."
Well, it appears the two have found each other. Returning from the break, Marafioti is currently polling his table about whether or not they would be in favor of bumping the payouts to give cash to the top twelve. Neil Johnson suddenly appeared with a new breakdown of the prize pool, and they're still talking it over. There is not much support from the remainder of the field right now, and the big holdout is big stack Olivier Busquet who wants to take a good long look at the top-twelve structure. You can't blame him; Busquet is the commanding chip leader with nearly 900,000 chips right now -- well over 100 big blinds. And there's potentially €1 million in his sights.
We'll let you know if there's any movement on that from the players.
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. That spells a much needed double up for the short stack, and he's back in to contention with about 310,000 now.
flop hit the felt, Schwartz knocked over a stack of his chips. 
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