Franczak Follows Up €100K SHR Bubble by Bubbling the €25K

Earlier in the week, Poland's Piotr Franczak suffered a particularly bad beat to bubble the €100,000 Super High Roller. Unfortunately for him, he had to experience the bubble pain yet against here at the EPT11 Grand Final, this time in the €25,000 High Roller.

This time however, it wasn't a bad beat. Instead, Franczak had grown extremely short, down to just 4,000 in fact, when he committed it under the gun. Dario Sammartino, who was next to act, called the 8,000 big blind, and then Matt Waxman did the same from the cutoff. A short-stacked Tom-Aksel Bedell called the additional 4,000 from the small blind — leaving himself just 8,000 back — and Dominik Nitsche checked his option from the big.

Two checks on the flop saw Sammartino bet 10,000, Waxman folded, and Bedell called off. Nitsche got out of the way, and the remaining three players tabled their cards.

Sammartino:
Bedell:
Franczak:

Sammartino had the best of it with middle pair and a big kicker, and the hand held after the appeared on the turn followed by the river. Had the double elimination taken place between two players at different tables, the 31st-place prize money (€46,400) would have been split; however, the rules state when two eliminations occur at the same table, the player with the lower chip count technically busts first.