Players are in the last break of the day and we have eyeballed 61 remaining stacks. We had some shakeup in the chip lead position with Ameed Khalil losing almost half his stack and from the looks of it, Andrea Agnoletto is currently leading the field. Name Chips Big Blinds Andrea Agnoletto (5) 2,080,000 104…
Players are on a 20-minute break. This will be the final break of the day. Players will come back for one more hour-long blind level with blinds at 10,000/20,000 along with a 20,000 big blind ante. Surviving players will bag chips into tomorrow’s penultimate day starting at 1 p.m. We will also be updating the…
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Level 21: 10,000/15,000 (15,000) Entries: 64/1,992 The two big stacks at Table 17 just had a small brawl. It started with Ameed Khalil raising to 40k from the button and Gytis Lazauninkas reraising to 125k from the small blind. Khalil called and they saw a flop. After Lazauninkas checked, Khalil bet 200k and Lazauninkas called.…
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 (15,000) Entries: 67/1,992 There is a famous saying from the iconic HBO series The Sopranos, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” This saying applies to the following hand between Dusan Bartak and Guilio Di Salvo. Dusan Bartak jammed for less than five big blinds from the…
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 (15,000) Entries: 70/1,992 Vygintas Sipalis raised from late position and in the blinds, Wissam Ouertani moved all-in for effectively 387k. Sipalis called quickly and the two went to showdown: Wissam Ouertani: Vygintas Sipalis: Board: Sipalis hit his set, dodged his opponents’ outs, and doubled to roughly 800k. Vygintas Sipalis – 800,000 Wissam…
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 78/1,992 In a rather huge clash, the Italian Giulio Di Salvo doubled through the (former) chip leader Ameed Khalil. Di Salvo opened from middle position to 25k. Behind him, Jon Persent re-raised to 75k and right behind him, Ameed Khalil called the 3-bet. The action was back on Di Salvo…
In an interesting twist, the two big stacks of the Main Event have been placed right next to each other. Ameed Khalil and Gytis Lazauninkas have 5 Million chips combined – the Italian holds 2.8m and the Lithauanian 2.2m. Meanwhile, Lazauninkas is multitabling – at least sort of. While playing the Main Event he’s also…
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 88/1,992 Tomasz Kokoszka just eliminated Shmuel Hadad by hitting a two-outer on the river. The two players were all-in before the flop and Hadad had Kokoszka crushed with Kings against Kings. The dealer fanned a low board but dealt a queen on the river, sending this 500k Kokoszka’s way, and…
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 95/1,992 Itay Cahana was among the recent players to hit the rail. He got it in good but sometimes this doesn’t matter, especially in this case when his opponent Victor Fryda had tons of equity. Cahana checked the flop before Fryda fired out for 45,000 into a pot of a…