Barney Boatman, JP Kelly and EPT Prague champion Ramzi Jelassi have all busted in the first couple of pay levels.
Both Boatman brothers are now out of the ISPT Wembley Main Event.
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Level: 12
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Having survived the bubble Carlo Citrone was nursing a stack of less than 7 big blinds. The antes were eating him up. Waiting patiently until the action folded to him he would take a peek at his cards, grimace and fold. “Can’t do it with four high.” Was one of Carlo’s comments.
Under the gun, with the big blind coming his way next hand, he put his chips in the middle. 11,000 exactly.
The button said “Raise.” and put out 4,500. The under-raise caused some confusion until David Benyamine, seated to Carlo’s right in the big blind clarified the raise as 18,200. The button, Ryan Passey, put the required chips in.
The small blind and Benyamine folded and Carlo commented. “Or he could have just passed and left the 4,500 in.”
“He did say raise.” Replied Benyamine.
Carlo Citrone tabled 
Ryan Passey showed 
The 
in the window gave Carlo some hope but the next two cards were 
The turn brought the 
giving some outs to beat Passey’s set, but it was all over when the 
completed the board.
Laurence Houghton and Antoine Saout got into a preflop raising war with all the chips eventually going into the middle.
Houghton: 
Saout: 
The board came 
and Saout scooped the pot, eliminating his opponent and boosting his own stack to 315,000.
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315,000
163,500
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Well that wasn't a table change Ross Boatman will have been happy about. The first hand he played he found 
and played a four-bet pot where he check-raised all in on a 
only to run into aces. No queen came on the turn or river and the number of Boatmans in the tournament has been cut in half.
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As David Gent was busy bubbling at one side of the enormous inflatable tent that houses the players, Tomasz Gluszko was sweating a hand involving himself and Rhys Jones.
Gluszko was all in and at risk of elimination with 
and needed some help from the community cards because Jones held 
.
Jones spiked a set on the 
flop to move further in front. The on the turn drew some "oohs" and "aahhs" from the gathering crowd, but there was no further excitement as the 
river completed the board, the hand and Gluszko's demise.
We are now definitely in the money.
There were four all-in/calls in the hand that finally burst the bubble.
On one table a player managed to survive with against 
when the board came 
.
Then David Gent was all in with 
against on a flop of 
and when the board couldn't bring a five on the turn or river, he was eliminated.
However, he could win some money, at least €270, if one other person bust in one of the other two hands that were going on on the other side of the room.
We are now playing hand for hand on the bubble of the ISPT and emotions are running high. One false move and you are out.
It’s not all pre-flop all in and a call, although there have been a couple of those that saw short stacks survive.
On table twenty three having called a pre-flop bet and seen a flop of 
the player in the big blind bet 20,000.
His opponent thought for a long time before pushing all his chips over the line. This seemed to confuse the player in the big blind who asked, “Why you think a lot before doing this?”
Getting no answer he thought a bit longer and folded. His opponent showed him a single card, the which seemed to rile him even more.
“You make a mistake with that play. You think you make me lay down a big hand, but you’re wrong.”
One player who was all in pre-flop however was Carlo Citrone. His shove with 
was called by 
The board ran out 
and Carlo survived the bubble.
Only a few hands later Carlo had another critical decision. Playing from the small blind he faced a bet from his opponent that would put him all in.
The board read 
The fact that he had just survived minutes earlier was clearly paying a part in his decision.
He agonised and folded showing his hand Kh 8h to David Benyamine.
The tension remains. Shouldn’t be long now.
Stay tuned.
Alain Roy has played many poker tournaments that have reached the money stages as you would expect from a player with almost $2,600,000 in cashes. He could be adding more prize money to that total after doubling through Steven Csepreghi.
Csepreghi opened from late position and then called as Roy three-bet all in for around 29,000 in the cutoff. ROy showed the to Csepreghi's dominated .
Csepreghi joked the board would run 
and result in a split pot, but his psychic powers are not as good as his poker skills because the board came 
to double Roy up.
