Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Level: 21
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
31 players remaining, back in 20 minutes.
A hand that left the rest of the table flabbergasted just played out between Bahram Chobineh and Carlo De Benedittis. From under-the-gun Chobineh limped, De Benedittis raised to 23,000 only for Chobineh to limp re-raise to 47,000 total. His limp re-raise was met by an instant all-in from De Benedittis.
Back on Chobineh he asjked for a count, De Benedittis was all-in for 363,000 and he covered Chobineh, who had 260,000 back. The Iranian tanked for over three minutes before folding face-up. "Wow," exclaimed the table, even more so when De Benedittis showed .
After considering De Benedittis's possible holdings after such a sequence of bets and raises, Chobineh was able to fold his pocket queens. Read more about this hand and the idea of narrowing an opponent's range on Learn.PokerNews in "Lessons from EPT10 Deauville: Using Perceived Range to Find a Fold."
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Carlo De Benedittis |
420,000
131,000
|
131,000 |
Bahram Chobineh |
260,000
-232,000
|
-232,000 |
From the small blind Andrew Sweeney pushed all in putting big blind Jonathan Abdellatif at risk. The Belgian player made the call holding and was in a coin flip situation against Sweeney's .
Abdellatif received no help: . It's up to Jean-Yves Malherbe now to defend Belgian's honor, Abdellatif is out.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Sweeney |
950,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
Jonathan Abdellatif | Busted |
Alex Goulder is playing almost a million after eliminating Aurelien Soutchkov at the feature table. The action was started by Norbert Szecsi who opened to 21,000 from the button, Soutchkov flat called from the small blind, only for Goulder to make it 62,000 from the big blind.
Back on Szecsi he folded, Soutchkov moved all-in for 418,000 and Goulder snap called.
Soutchkov:
Goulder:
It was a classic race and it was one Goulder won as the board came .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alex Goulder |
989,000
989,000
|
989,000 |
Aurelien Soutchkov | Busted |
Another player has been eliminated and it's Ludovic Geilich who's hit the rail. The EPT10 London 4th place finisher was very unlucky to find himself on the rail though.
He and Eli Heath got it all-in pre-flop for a 700,000 pot with Geilich holding pocket aces and Heath a pair of sevens. A seven on the flop sent the pot to Heath. That left Geilich very short and he was out soon after.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Eli Heath |
700,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Ludo Geilich (Ludovic Geilich)
|
Busted |
Starting Day 4 there are still nine "Skrillees" still fighting for their buy-in back in the Skrill Last Longer.
Leading the contest is Tatu Maempaa from Finland who started with 926,000 in chips but now has well over 1.3 million. Dimitri Holdeew started the day second on that list with 774,000 chips. Dimitri won the last Skrill Last Longer in Prague. Can he do it again and be the first player to win 2 Skrill Last longers?
Player | Chips at the beginning of the day |
---|---|
Tatu Maempaa | 926.000 |
Dimitri Holdeew | 774.000 |
Dario Sammartino | 528.000 |
Ludovic Geilich | 408.000 |
Rustem Muratov | 378.000 |
Tobias Wagner | 341.000 |
Erkan Yildirim | 319.000 |
Ondrej Vinklarek | 251.000 |
Mustapha Amaouche | 231.000 |
We've lost another player as Alain Alezra has been eliminated by Oliver Price. The Frenchman had but lost out to Price's on a board.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Oliver Price |
615,000
218,000
|
218,000 |
Alain Alezra | Busted |
"All in and a call!" As we rushed over to the table the entire board was already out: . Tatu Maenpaa had for the flopped nuts. Dario Sammartino had for the flopped third nuts. The Italian stood up from the table and left the tournament area with hanging shoulders.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tatu Maenpaa |
1,365,000
439,000
|
439,000 |
Dario Sammartino | Busted |
Michel Pomaret just busted from the feature table after Sotirios Koutoupas made a great call on the river.
Pre-flop Pomaret opened to 23,000 on the button and Koutoupas made the call from the small blind. The flop was checked through and the fell on the turn. First to act Koutoupas fired out a bet of 27,000, Pomaret raised to 60,000 with 212,000 behind and Koutoupas smooth called. On the river Koutoupas checked, Pomaret moved all-in and Koutoupas put one chip over the line to signal a call. First to show was Pomaret who had , Koutoupas had for a gutsy call.
After that hand Koutoupas is up to 1,498,000 and the EPT9 Prague runner-up is now the tournament chip leader.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sotirios Koutoupas |
1,498,000
369,000
|
369,000 |
|
||
Michel Pomaret | Busted |