From middle position, Mads Wissing raised to 36,000. Action folded to Vesa Leikos on the button and even though he had just 18,000 behind, he folded. In the big blind, Patrick Renkers made the call.
The flop came down and Renkers check-called a bet of 43,000 from Wissing. The turn was the and Renkers check-called 92,000. The river completed the board with the and both players checked.
Wissing's {Ah] was second best to Renkers' and the chip leader added to his stack.
This hand comes courtesy of our colleague Marc Convey from the PokerStars Blog.
Nicolas Levi is up to around 2,000,000 chips after winning a huge and vital flip against Garry Tevosov, who dropped to 90,000 chips in the process.
The Russian raised to 32,000 from the hijack before Levi three-bet to 75,000 from the button. Tevosov didn’t waste much time before announcing a raise to 170,000. That put the pressure right back on Levi and he dealt with it by announcing he was all-in. Tevosov exhaled a large amount of air and said, “Okay, I call.”
Levi:
Tevosov:
The board ran . Levi looked at his opponent and said, “Stupid game.”
Action folded to Vesa Leikos in the small blind. He checked on Chris Moorman's stack in the big blind and then raised to 38,000. Moorman reraised to 334,000 and was all in. Leikos called.
Moorman:
Leikos:
The board ran out and Moorman smashed the double to crippled Leikos.
We've just lost our 25th-place finisher, and there are just eight minutes left in the level. We need to do a full redraw, so the players have racked up and been sent off a few minutes early. We'll be back in 20 minutes with the new lineup and the rest of the level.
Vesa Leikos came in with a mini-raise under the gun, and the table folded all the way around to the big blind. There, Guillem Cavaller looked down at and stuck his last 176,000 into the pot. Leikos called off a little more than half his stack with , and the race was on.
Cavaller's little fives held on strong as the board rolled out . It's a double for Cavaller and a halving of the stack for Leikos, and the two men have essentially exchanged stacks with that pot. As you can see from the trend, though, the fresh double for Cavaller still puts him at less than half what he began the day with.
Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth may not have an EPT Main Event title yet, but he did just set himself up a bit better to make a real run at it with the following hand.
Action folded to Ainsworth in the small blind and he min-raised to 32,000. Pontus Khosravi was in the big blind and took his time before three-bet to 74,000. After a minute, Ainsworth reraised all in for 475,000. Khosravi snapped so fast it could only mean one thing.
Khosravi:
Ainsworth:
Things looked very bad for Ainsworth, but he got a little bit of help on the flop when he picked up a gutshot straight draw.
The turn did nothing, but the on the river was exactly what Ainsworth needed. He had made his straight, albeit by nothing short of a miracle, and was able to double through.
Ainsworth has five EPT Main Event cashes on his record. The deepest of those runs came from a 13th-place finish in the 2009 EPT Vilamoura Main Event for €13,274. His best finish money-wise came in 2010 at EPT Berlin where Ainsworth finished in 19th for €23,500. Earlier this year, Ainsworth won a side event at the EPT San Remo.
The EPT will have to wait at least one more stop to crown its first double champion.
Martin Finger raised to 35,000 to open the pot, and Mike McDonald reraised to 81,000 total. Finger came right back over the top with another raise to 152,000, and now "Timex" flatted to see a flop.
It came , and McDonald called a continuation bet of 105,000. That left him with about 525,000 behind, and Finger shoved on him after the landed on the turn. McDonald had , and he called off the rest of his stack. Unfortunately for the EPT4 Dortmund champ, he'd run into the of Finger, and a blank on the river has ended his day prematurely in 27th place.
Finger is stil stacking up that pot, but it should move him up over 2 million if our gorilla math is correct.
Fortunately for Timex, the €10,000 High Roller event is just getting under way on the other side of the room, and he's headed straight over to the registration desk to spend some of that money he just earned from this Main Event cash.
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and Renkers check-called a bet of 43,000 from Wissing. The turn was the 
and Renkers check-called 92,000. The river completed the board with the 
and both players checked.
was second best to Renkers' 
and the chip leader added to his stack.
. Levi looked at his opponent and said, “Stupid game.”
and Moorman smashed the double to crippled Leikos.
and stuck his last 176,000 into the pot. Leikos called off a little more than half his stack with 
. It's a double for Cavaller and a halving of the stack for Leikos, and the two men have essentially exchanged stacks with that pot. As you can see from the trend, though, the fresh double for Cavaller still puts him at less than half what he began the day with.
on the river was exactly what Ainsworth needed. He had made his straight, albeit by nothing short of a miracle, and was able to double through.
, and McDonald called a continuation bet of 105,000. That left him with about 525,000 behind, and Finger shoved on him after the 
