€10,200 Single-Day High Roller | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

10-26-2015 17:04 UTC

The Recently Departed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

A few players have busted recently, though in a very short time. Among them was also Tom-Aksel Bedell, who was at risk in a battle of the blinds against Sam Greenwood for roughly 15 big blinds. Bedell held the and Greenwood the .

On the turn, Bedell had two over cards and the open-ended straight draw, yet the river bricked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Greenwood	305,000 160,000	160,000

Scott Seiver	Busted
Davidi Kitai	Busted

Connor Drinan	Busted
Salman Behbehani	Busted
Charlie Carrel	Busted
Tom-Aksel Bedell	Busted

Tags: Sam Greenwood Tom-Aksel Bedell

Level: 11

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

10-26-2015 16:54 UTC

Juanda Scores Double Up

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

In a battle of the blinds, John Juanda open-shoved for 104,500 and Christopher Frank called from one seat over. Juanda only had but got there on a board of to beat the of Frank and double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Frank	400,000 300,000	300,000
John Juanda	215,000 45,000	45,000

Tags: Christopher Frank John Juanda

10-26-2015 16:50 UTC

Mercier Keeps Climbing

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Level 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

With about 165,000 in the middle on a board, Jason Mercier fired out a bet of 123,000 heads up with Mukul Pahuja.

He took his time about it, but Pahuja folded, claiming aces and allowing Mercier to climb even closer to the top of the leader board.

At the last break, Mercier had just 13 big blinds - Now he has some 75.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Mercier	450,000 75,000	75,000

Tags: Jason Mercier Mukul Pahuja

10-26-2015 16:49 UTC

David Peters Leaves Early; Doubles

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Jason Wheeler opened the action with a raise and then snap-called the shove of David Peters, who was all in and at risk out of the big blind for his last 37,000. Wheeler showed and Peters was in desperate shape with , stood up from his chair and was ready to go on the flop . However, the dealer burned and turned the and as final two community cards to give Peters an unlikely straight.

"That whole scenario seemed very unlikely," Charlie Carrel said and Wheeler replied back "Yeah. And this never works for me."

Almost at the same time, Liv Boeree exited the tournament area.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Wheeler	269,000 19,000	19,000
David Peters	80,000 80,000	80,000
Liv Boeree	Busted

Tags: Charlie Carrel David Peters Jason Wheeler

10-26-2015 16:42 UTC

The Pots get Bigger

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Adrian Mateos raised to 14,000 from under the gun and Shaun Deeb three-bet to 40,000 from a few seats over. The action got back to Mateos and he moved all in with pocket threes to put Deeb at risk for effectively 223,000. Deeb called with the and held up on the board .

Player	Chips	Progress
Shaun Deeb	450,000 350,000	350,000

Adrian Mateos	245,000 95,000	95,000

Tags: Adrian Mateos Shaun Deeb

10-26-2015 16:38 UTC

"Let's Play the Main Event"

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Igor Kurganov was waiting for Liv Boeree and the latter joked "oh well let's play the Main Event then" with her two big blinds remaining. Kurganov was already busted and a few others had joined him on the rail recently as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Carlos Garcia	Busted
Igor Kurganov	Busted
Christoph Vogelsang	Busted
Yingui Li	Busted
Orpen Kisacikoglu	Busted
Antonio Buonanno	Busted

Tags: Igor Kurganov Liv Boeree

Level: 10

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

10-26-2015 16:30 UTC

Jorgensen Triples Up in Fortunate Circumstances

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Liv Boeree is in need of a miracle after losing almost her entire stack to Theo Jorgensen. In fact it was a three-way all in, through which Jorgensen tripled up out of the big blind with . Ike Haxton's and Boeree's were cracked on the board and Jorgensen had 89,000 chips times three and the small blind and antes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Theo Jorgensen	295,000 174,000	174,000

Isaac Haxton	140,000 -10,000	-10,000

Liv Boeree	10,500 -89,500	-89,500

Tags: Ike Haxton Liv Boeree Theo Jorgensen

10-26-2015 16:27 UTC

Mercier More Than Doubles

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Davidi Kitai opened the action with a raise to 10,500 and Thomas Muehloecker three-bet to 27,500 from one seat over. Mukul Pahuja four-bet to 58,500 from the button and Jason Mercier five-bet shoved for 165,000. Kitai and Muehloecker quickly folded, Pahuja tank-called after giving it a lot of consideration.

Mercier:
Pahuja:

The board ran out and the Team PokerStars Pro moved back above average.