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Claudiu Saizu opened to 30,000 from the highjack, and Alex Gomes wasn't about to let him steal his cutoff. Gomes three-bet to 78,000. Undaunted, Saizu swiftly made it 200,000 total. Gomes, who doesn't do anything swiftly, took his time to decide on a fold. He's just under 500,000 now.
[user46392]
A blind-on-blind raising war resulted in small blind Oscar Blanco finding himself all in with against small blind Nicolas Chouity's . An ace and a jack fell on the flop, and following a total absence of further nines, Blanco was bust.
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Eyster - high roller, cheap eater
Rony Halimi moved in for his last, er, 29,000 in early position and Gianni Giaroni re-shoved for, well, 33,000. Blinds are 6,000/12,000, remember. Oops. Kevin Eyster called from the small blind, as did the gent in the big blind, and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Both blinds checked.
Turn:
Eyster bet out 32,000 and the big blind folded. All three players flipped their cards, and the two shorties discovered that they were drawing dead.
Halimi:
Giaroni:
Eyster: for a flush
River, for the sake of completeness:
Both players headed to colled their money, while Eyster setled back down to his 1.85 million stack. Although as chip leader he's in rather a good position to be taking home an awful lot of money this week, he's still keen on avoiding the Monte Carlo prices. No €30 hamburgers for him - he produced a red McDonalds carton and casually asked the table, "Fries, anyone?"
[user76023]
Moritz Kranich was just eliminated after he was all-in preflop with against two other players. Craig McCorkell then bet out the other player on the flop and showed . The on the turn helped neither and the river meant McCorkell's kicker played.
Kranich's depature means that Salvatore Bonavena and Vicky Coren are the only two former EPT champions still in this tournament.
[user46392]
So micro-stack Fernando Brito called all in for his last, er, 7,000. That's a little more than half a big blind. There was a raise behind him and a call in the small blind, making it a three-way pot, but the other two players just checked down the board and they turned over their cards, in the following order:
Omar Baioumi: for a pair of deuces
Brito: for a pair of eights
Claudiu Saizu: for a pair of tens
"Awww," came the chorus from the whole table, who had rather been hoping for some micro-triple-up entertainment. Nevertheless, Brito did not have the best of it, and headed for the desk to collect his cash.
[user140525]
Alex Gomes opened from the cutoff, and the big blind, Vlad Mezheritsky, moved all in for 224,000 more. Gomes, who had about 475,000 left after his raise, took several minutes to come up with a fold.
[user76023]
Craig McCorkell is the big chip leader now. He just won a large pot from Sami Kelopuro to push him in advance of the 1 million mark.
The board was reading and Kelopuro check-called a bet of 43,000 leading to a river.
Kelopuro now checked once more and McCorkell bet out 157,000. The Finn shook his head but called anyway but mucked when McCorkell showed for a rivered straight.
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when we walked up to the table and it had checked around to Craig McCorkell on the button. 
turn and when the 
hit the river Karmazinas threw out a bet of 73,000 and both Kelopuro and McCorkell folded.
. An ace and a jack fell on the flop, and following a total absence of further nines, Blanco was bust.
for a flush
on a 
X X board.
against two other players. Craig McCorkell then bet out the other player on the 
. The 
, Paul Berende in the big blind checked and Alex Gomes put out a bet of 43,000. Berende called and the 
hit the turn.
board and they turned over their cards, in the following order:
for a pair of deuces
for a pair of eights
and Kelopuro check-called a bet of 43,000 leading to a 
for a rivered straight.
