Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Just as the title says, it is break time.
2012 World Poker Tour Malta
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Poker Tour Malta
Buy-in
€3,000
Prize Pool
€491,790
Entries
169
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Ilan Boujenah is so angry we have just seen him headbutt the wall, and the man responsible for the emergence of lava is Jack Salter.
The pair got embroiled in a pot with Ilan Boujenah three-betting with pocket jacks, Salter four-betting with pocket kings, Boujenah five bet jamming and Salter calling. The outrage is because Salter stacked his chips with his blue denominations hidden behind his pink, red and yellow chips. With each blue chip worth 5,000, this means that around 100,000 was hidden from view when Boujenah went for the jugular.
The Tournament Director was called and Salter was given a verbal warning. Salter apologised, but that was no comfort for Boujenah who has had to pass the chip lead to Salter. But Boujenah is made of strong stuff and in the time it has taken for us to write this article, he his back up to 100,000!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
237,800
|
237,800 |
|
100,000
-95,000
|
-95,000 |
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Phil Hellmuth has been giving his table a lesson in his greatness and alll for free too.
Jusso Leppanen opened from the hijack to 2,700 and the action was on Hellmuth in the cutoff. "Nine thousand," said Hellmuth as he put in his raise.
"Why so big?" asked Leppanen.
"I want you to go away now before your bluff comes!" came the reply.
After around 45 seconds Leppanen folded and requested Hellmuth to show a card.
"You want me to show you an ace?" said Hellmuth
"You had it?" said Leppanen
"Of course I had it. These kids are just waiting to give me their chips. I just have to keep structured."
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Jason Mercier has finished multi-tasking playing this tournament and high stakes cash games online and is concentrating fully on the task in hand.
He just opened to 2,400 from under the gun and when the action folded to Puk Nabuurs on the button, Nabuurs three-bet to 5,800. Both blinds quickly got out of the way but Mercier had other ideas and four-bet to 12,200. Nabuurs suddenly did not see too confident in his hand an after less than a minute he folded his hand.
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
One of the long standing jokes about Phil Hellmuth is how he constantly name drops on his popular Twitter feed. However, Hellmuth he says he does not do this. Check out this video to find out more.
Giovanni Rizzo will not be adding his name to the long list of World Poker Tour champions as he has just busted out of the main event here in Malta.
He told us he got his stack in with pocket jacks and lost out to the ace-king of Marco Leonzio.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
We joined the action on the far end of the room where Thomas Eychene was in the cutoff and had 13,000 chips over the betting line and he was in the tank. Jackson Genovesi had raised a massive 56,900, effectively putting Eychene all in.
"King-jack?" asked Eychene.
"I cannot talk about my hand," came the reply, "but I think I have a better hand than you."
One minute later Eychene asked , "Will you show me if I fold?"
"No. Too much information to the table," replied Genovesi, "if it was just you and me then I would but trust me I have the best hand. I'm 85% sure."
Eventually one of the inactive players called time an as Christian Scalszi, the tournament director, got down to 30 seconds on his 60 second clock, Eychene folded.
"Seven-nine!" joked Genovesi, and his table mates all burst into laughter.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
195,000
132,900
|
132,900 |
|
170,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
123,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
122,400
68,300
|
68,300 |
|
121,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
108,000
74,200
|
74,200 |
|
93,000
11,300
|
11,300 |
|
82,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
||
|
68,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
61,000
-200
|
-200 |
|
54,900
-7,100
|
-7,100 |
|
43,300
-47,700
|
-47,700 |
|
||
|
41,000
-16,500
|
-16,500 |
|
|
||
|
36,200
1,200
|
1,200 |
|
35,600
6,600
|
6,600 |
|
|
27,000
-34,500
|
-34,500 |
|
15,500
3,100
|
3,100 |
|
14,200
-3,300
|
-3,300 |
|
|
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