Level 8: 400/800 (800) Entries: 176/336 Wesley Peinen three-bet jammed for around 20 big blinds before Uri Gilboa four-bet shoved for a lot more. Dimitros Kilintaris, who called Gilboa’s initial bet folded and players turned over their cards before shouting what they were looking for. Wesley Peinen: Uri Gilboa: “Jack!” Peinen begged. “Maybe two jacks!”…
Level 8: 400/800 (800) Entries: 189/331 Dominik Asztenborski four-bet jammed for close to 35,000 and was called by Samuel Tebege. Dominik Asztenborski: Samuel Tebege: It was a classic coin flip with big slick facing off against pocket queens. The queens were good after Astenborski’s big slick was unable to connect with the runout. Samuel Tebege…
Level 7: 300/600 (600) Entries: 204/312 Peter Kaspar fired out for 8,500 into a pot of around 20,000 with the on the board. Dimitrios Kilintaris went into the tank for a few minutes with both players remaining quiet at first. “Ace-king?” asked Kilintaris to Kaspar. “You call, I show,” responded Kaspar before adding. “If you…
Players are on their second short break of Day 2. We will update as many of the big stacks around the room as possible during the break. Blinds will increase to 300/600 with a 600 big blind ante when the action resumes.
The €150 Ladies Event kicked off with a tidy field of 11 ladies. We wanted to give a special shoutout to Florence Mazet who is in the field. Mazet is an old friend (she’s not old, just this reporter is, but you get the idea that we have known each other for many years) and…
Level 5: 200/400 (400)Entries: 217/287 Edgaras Kausinis fired out for 2,500 from the small blind into a pot north of 10,000 after the landed on the flop. Georgios Karakausis called from the big blind as did Itamar Nachshon from the hijack. Kausinis checked after the followed on the turn. Karakausis bet 5,000. Nachshon immediately folded…
Level 5: 200/400 (400) Entries: 221/278 This won’t come as a big surprise that Day 1b is already bigger than the 273 entries attracted on Day 1a. The surprise is how quickly it happened as late registration will still be open for 4 1/2 more blind levels and the dinner break that follows. At this…
Level 5: 200/400 (400) Entries: 218/268 Perhaps we have a Cinderella story in the making with Kostadin Mihaylov as he was down to just 1,000 chips. He is still short but is headed in the right direction after getting a little bit of luck on the following hand. Mihaylov jammed for 1,000 from under the…
Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 212/252 Maksym Sheingart jammed for 7,200 into a pot of around 10,000 with the on the board after the river. Simon Steinberg tanked for about a minute before he called for most of his stack. Sheingart turned over for a better two pair than was on the board. Steinberg attempted…
Yesterday, we noticed Liran Derei Moshe playing the part of a king in the Main Event. While the King is gone (but not forgotten) today we didn’t notice him in the poker room. However, we did instead notice one of the kings of the jungle in play with Yair Orbach playing a Main Event satellite…