Andrea Dominica Plays Post Flop Poker, Wins!

Level 26: 25,000/50,000 (50,000) Entries: 21/1,992 He was mainly confined to playing preflop poker due to his small stack in the past, but Andrea Dominica recently increased his stack enough to also play post-flop poker now. And we just saw him pick up a courageous bluff against Roberto Caprio. The hand began with Fabian Rolli…

Persent Hits the Rail With a Weaker Ace

Level 26: 25,000/50,000 (50,000) Entries: 23/1,992 Giulio Di Salvo jammed for about 10 big blinds from early position before Jon Persent called off his stack of a little less from one seat over. Jon Persent: Giulio Di Salvo: Persent wasn’t able to push ahead on the board and exited the 2023 Battle of Malta Spring…

Final Three Tables

With that, we’re down to three tables. Those are the approximate counts and (accurate) seats: Name Chips Big Blinds Table Seat Giorgio Bellanca 4,680,000 94 18 4 Victor Fryda 4,580,000 92 18 8 Maksym Sheingart 4,280,000 86 16 5 Roberto Caprio 3,660,000 73 16 1 Fabian Rolli 3,160,000 63 16 2 Andrea Agnoletto 3,060,000 61…

Maksym Sheingart Straightens Minieri Out

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 24/1,992 They had been battling before and Sheingart had the better end. Now they went at it again and this time Maksym Sheingart eliminated Dario Minieri. They were all-in on a flop that read . Minieri was well ahead with his , but Sheingart had outs as he held .…

Moelderkivi Runs Into Fryda’s Rockets

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 26/1,992 Rain Moelderkivi jammed from early position for about a dozen big blinds. This got through for a walk but then the next hand he jammed again, this time for 550,000 from under the gun. Victor Fryda called from one seat over and the rest of the table folded. Rain…

Alexis Roch Times Into a Lucky Double Up

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 27/1,992 That was a slightly weird hand! Over at Table 19, Andrea Agnoletto raised from middle position to 85k. It folded to Alexis Roch on the button, who made it 425k, leaving himself 100k chips. Agnoletto instantly moved all-in, expecting a rapid call. But Alexis Roch took his time. He…

Cowboys No Good for Mercieca

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 27/1,992 James Mercieca opened for 90,000 from middle position and was called by Jon Persent from the cutoff, Dario Minieri from the button, David Lappin from the small blind, and Junyu Liu from the big blind for five players to see the flop. The action was checked over to Merieca,…

Andrea Dominici Doubles Once More

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 26/1,992 Andrea Dominici is digging the short stack game. At the start of the level, he was down to roughly 10 big blinds and was hovering at that level for a while now. But right now he managed to double up against the table chip leader Victor Fryda. It was…

Bellanca Flushes Shindler to the Rail

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 29/1,992 Robert Shindler opened for a min-raise from the cutoff. Giorgio Bellanca three-bet to 280,000 from the big blind. Shindler four-bet jammed for nearly 800,000 and Bellanca snap-called. Robert Shindler: Giorgio Bellanca: Shindler was behind but he moved slightly ahead after his five found a friend on the flop. Bellanca…

Junyu Liu Three-Bets Twice in One Hand

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 30/1,992 With roughly 600k in the middle already we arrived at Table 18 with the flop reading . Two players were in the hand. We assume the preflop action went as follows: Jon Persent raised from middle position, Junyu Liu reraised from the small blind and Persent called. On the…