With 15,000 in the pot and a board reading , Paul Volpe checked and Jackie Glazier bet 7,400, leaving herself just 15,300 behind. Volpe then woke up with an all-in check-raise and Glazier thought for about a minute before folding her hand.
Cristiano Blanco opened to 2,300 in the cutoff, Stephen Chidwick three-bet out of the small blind, and Blanco moved all in for 24,900. Chidwick snap-called.
Blanco:
Chidwick:
Chidwick couldn't improve as the board came , and Blanco doubled.
On the tur of a board, Sam Trickett had bet 12,000 before Sven Reichardt moved all in. Trickett instantly called off his 58,300 stack with and Reichardt turned over a drawing .
The river was the and Trickett doubled up to about 165,000.
Georgios Kapalas opened to 2,100 from under the gun, Shannon Shorr three-bet to 5,200 from middle position, and the action folded back to Kapalas, who called.
The flop fell , Kapalas check-called a bet of 4,700, and both players checked when the turned. The completed the board, and Kapalas fired out 16,800. Shorr tanked for a considerable amount of time, assembling enough chips to call and placing them to the side of his stack.
Finally, without warning, Shorr flicked his cards into the muck and instantly tossed out his ante for the next hand.
Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu just raised to 2,200 and was three-bet to 5,500 by Dinesh Alt from the small blind. Negreanu called and the flop brought .
Alt checked to Negreanu who bet 4,200 and his opponent called.
The turn brought the and Alt checked again. Negreanu bet 6,500 and took down the pot. Alt was allowed to see one of Negreanu's cards and he picked the .
"You were in bad shape, I had two pair," Negreanu said with a smile as their table was broken up. Negreanu was moved to the right of Anton Wigg and while he's down just a little bit from the start of the day he's still in very good shape right now.
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We picked up the action on a flop with 11,600 in the pot. Dario Minieri had gotten his last 3,400 all in fron the hijack and was squaring off against Timothy Adams and Jeff Gross. Adams bet 3,800 from the big blind and Gross called from early position to create a 7,600 side pot.
When the turned, Adams bet 8,500 but folded when Gross shoved all in for 35,700. Gross then tabled the for a turned set, which had Minieri's drawing dead. As the dealer was putting out the meaningless on the river, Minieri shook Gross' hand and then took his leave from the EPT London Main Event.