2015 PokerStars.fr EPT Season 11 Deauville

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2015 PokerStars.fr EPT Season 11 Deauville

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
€543,700
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,841,600
Entries
592
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Rudnik Back to Starting Stack

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

On a table with Konstantin Puchkov, Efim Rudnik just doubled back to slightly more than starting stack after being all in with {Q-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} after a board of {J-Spades} {4-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {4-Diamonds}. The cards of the opponent were already mucked and Rudnik as well as Puchkov talked in Russian, though the straight of Rudnik was good enough to scoop the pot and is around 32,000 in chips.

Tags: Efim RudnikKonstantin Puchkov

Early Hit to Troyanovskiy

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

We recently found Florian Ravier and Vladimir Troyanovskiy engaged in a hand were the board read {9-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{5-Spades}. Florian was first to act and he checked his action over to Troyanovskiy.

Troyanovskiy dipped into his stack and came out with a bet of 850. Ravier thought for a brief moment before opting to check-raise the action to 2,200 total. This move put the pressure back on Troyanovskiy and in the end he decided that the price was too high. Troyanosvkiy flung his cards into the muck and Ravier pulled in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
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Florian Ravier
34,000
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Vladimir Troyanovskiy
26,300
-6,700
-6,700

Tags: Vladimir TroyanovskiyFlorian Ravier

Watts Involved in Controversy

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Joining the action on a three-way flop of {6-Spades} {8-Hearts} {5-Clubs}, the opponent of Steven Watts bet 500 and another player folded. Watts had the hands covered over his cards and the opponent exposed {Q-Spades} {Q-Clubs}, which caused some confusion on how to proceed. Floor was called and it was ruled that the hand of the opponent wasn't dead, Watts still had all options.

The Brit eventually mucked, floor however gave the opponent a one-round penalty for exposing his cards out of turn.

Player Chips Progress
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Steven Watts
29,500
-500
-500

Tags: Steven Watts

Lovgren In Malta

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante
Sofia Lövgren
Sofia Lövgren

Sofia Lovgren is in the field today bright and early after finishing fifth in the Women’s Event last night. Lovgren currently lives in Malta and as there is and EPT happening there for the first time this year there is interest amongst the other players at her table.

Marius Pospiech from Germany has already qualified for the Main Event and was telling her that he was excited to go for the first time. Lovgren confirmed that it wasn’t too hot at that time of year as she opened to 250 and met no resistance as Pospiech folded his small blind.

On the next hand Lovgren, in the big blind, tangled with Italy’s Andrea Dato calling down his bets to the river of a board reading {a-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{4-Hearts}{7-Spades}. They both checked and Lovgren declared a flush, turning over {k-Spades}{9-Spades}. Dato said he had the best hand until the river and then confirmed he will be playing the prestigious Global Poker Masters in Malta.

EPT Malta will run March 18-28 in partnership with the Italian Poker Tour, at the elegant Portomaso Casino.

Player Chips Progress
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Sofia Lovgren
32,000
32,000
32,000

Don’t Check The Nuts On the River

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

The floor was called when two players had got to the river of a board reading {a-Spades}{3-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{k-Clubs}. There had been a bet, a raise, a re-raise and then just a call without all the chips going in the middle. The player who called showed {q-Clubs}{j-Diamonds} and the other tabled {a-Clubs}{j-Spades}. It was a chop but the problem was that both players had the nuts, an unbeatable hand, and technically you are not allowed to do that to avoid the suspicion of soft play or collusion.

The player who called explained that he knew what the other player had and it would be chopped so he simply called. The usual penalty would be to sit out for one round but in this case, as there had been significant action, the player was just warned and allowed to continue.

Rob has a Strong Hand

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

With both players in the blinds not being at the table yet, Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 200 and Salem Sahed three-bet to 600 before Rob Strong four-bet from one seat over, making it 1,500 to go. Viktor Litovchenko called on the button, Troyanovskiy folded and Sahed also called.

On the {3-Spades} {J-Spades} {5-Hearts} flop all players checked and the {K-Spades} appeared on the turn. The action checked to Litovcheko and he made it 1,300, Sahed check-raised to 3,500 and Strong flat-called whereas Litovchenko quickly folded. The {J-Hearts} river saw Sahed bet 5,500 and Strong called with {A-Spades} {A-Hearts} to see his opponent flip over {8-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} for complete air.

Player Chips Progress
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Rob Strong
43,500
43,500
43,500

Tags: Rob StrongSalem SahedViktor LitovchenkoVladimir Troyanovskiy