Twenty-minute break for the final 10 players. The 1,000 chips leave the tournament room, the 5,000's will be the lowest denomination chips in use.
2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Erik Seidel opened under the gun for 65,000 and Fedor Holz in the big blind was the sole caller.
The flop came and Holz check called a bet of 75,000.
Both players checked the on the turn.
The hit the river and Holz checked for the third time in a row. Seidel bet 135,000 and Holz took about a minute before announcing all in. Seidel sighed, tanked for a bit, and called.
Holz showed . "Two pair?" Seidel asked, ready to muck his cards. The floor made Seidel turn over his cards, showing .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Erik Seidel |
2,284,000
-816,000
|
-816,000 |
|
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Fedor Holz |
1,556,000
756,000
|
756,000 |
Dario Sammartino has plenty of chips, and he's using them to accumulate even more by punishing his opponents on the bubble.
Sammartino was raising almost every hand, but eventually Fedor Holz took the initiative and opened for 75,000 from under the gun. That didn't discourage Sammartino though as he simply moved all in from the big blind. It did the trick as Holz released his hand.
During the short break, when the final two tables were balanced to an even five players per table, Dario Sammartino got up and walked around a little. He told us he wasn't slow-rolling Ole Schemion in that huge pot, and in fact he would never slow-roll someone.
He thought Schemion would never play aces or kings like that (bet, bet, shove), making it hard for him to call with his jacks, he added.
With just ten players remaining, the tournament is one player away from the money. Fedor Holz has moved from the feature table to the outer table, so both tables now have five players. Hand for hand play is in progress at the moment. Number 10 gets zero euro's, number nine get's €199,620.
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Action folded to Quan Zhou in the small blind and he moved in for his last 282,000. Big blind (and big stack) Erik Seidel made the call.
Erik Seidel:
Quan Zhou:
The flop was about as good as they could come for Zhou with . Seidel now needed runner runner something.
He would get exactly that. The on the turn opened a can of outs for Seidel, and the on the river was one of them.
"Wow!" exclaimed Zhou, getting up and shaking hands with Seidel not much later.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Erik Seidel |
3,100,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
||
Quan Zhou | Busted |
Level: 16
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 4,000
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Igor Kurganov |
2,251,000
181,000
|
181,000 |
Fedor Holz |
1,789,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
Max Altergott |
1,496,000
-114,000
|
-114,000 |
Vladimir Troyanovskiy |
678,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Piotr Franczak |
583,000
-353,000
|
-353,000 |
Scott Seiver |
576,000
-94,000
|
-94,000 |