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…
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…
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…
Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 31/1,992 There were between 400,000 and 500,000 in the pot when Lahire Roch check-called a bet of 180,000 by Andreas Agnoletto with the on the board after the turn. Roch checked again after the river completed the board. Agnoletto bet 280,000. Roch tanked for a couple of minutes before he…
Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 30/1,992 Over at Table 16 we just saw Rain Moelderkivi lose a significant portion of his stack. With roughly 450k in the middle on the river, the board read and Moelderkivi checked to his lone opponent, Roberto Caprio. Caprio bet 250k and Moelderkivi reluctantly called. The Italian turned over for…
With the end of the break, we’re down to the final four tables. All players already have €3,090 secured with the next pay jump coming starting at place #27.
Those are the complete counts after the first break: Name Chips Big Blinds Table Seat Victor Fryda 4,200,000 105 15 2 Roberto Caprio 4,060,000 102 16 8 Giorgio Bellanca 3,900,000 98 19 2 Antoine Talvard 3,560,000 89 17 6 Maksym Sheingart 2,700,000 68 18 6 Andrea Agnoletto 2,500,000 63 19 8 Fabian Rolli 2,300,000 58…
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000) Entries: 31/1,992 Right before the break, we lost Sebastiano Caruso who busted in brutal fashion against Candido Cappielle. Cappielle raised from the button and Caruso moved all-in from the blinds for roughly 420k chips. Cappielle eventually called, showing . Caruso had this hand crushed with . But the dealer fanned –…
Day 3 is on its first break. The field has been trimmed down from 48 players to start the day to just 31 hopefuls. Daniel Ryder and Sebastiano Caruso won’t be among the players returning as they both hit the rail just before the break. The big stacks will be updated during the break and…
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000) Entries: 35/1,992 “You destroyed him”, a player over at Roberto Caprio’s table exclaimed. The Italian just single-handedly took out the former chip leader Ameed Khalil. In hand we didn’t witness, he took half of Khalil’s stack. With roughly 1m chips left, Khalil raised with from early position to 60k. On the…