Meet FLIP Founder Daiva Byrne

Women’s poker advocate Davia Byrne, who founded the FLIP Facebook poker community, hosted the Ladies Only event earlier this week before finishing in sixth place. Next up for Byrne will be heading to Olympic Park Casino in the majestic Estonian capital of Tallinn for the Queens of Tallinn on Nov. 30 to Dec. 3. Check…

Kuczerski Sends Talvard Out

Level 26: 25,000/50,000 (50,000) Entries: 55/3,432 After a raised to 100k from Aleksi Naski early, Antoine Talvard shoved next to act. Szymon Kuczerski called from the small blind while Naski’s hand hit the muck. Talvard was ahead and dominating with ace-queen over king-queen but Kuczerski turned his king on . Szymon Kuczerski – 2,400,000 Antoine…

De Meulder Leaves Talvard With Crumbs

Level 26: 25,000/50,000 (50,000) Entries: 57/3,432 Aleksi Naski opened for 100,000 from the cutoff before Antoine Talvard jammed for more than 900,000 from the button. Christophe De Meulder called off his stack of 720,000 from the big blind and was at risk against Talvard after Naski got out of the way. Christophe De Meulder: Antoine…

Chips from Break

Level 26: 25,000/50,000 (50,000) Entries: 57/3,432 Player Chips BB Samuel Goodman 3,400,000 113 Jan Gerrit 3,060,000 102 Ivan Picavet 2,875,000 96 Aleksi Naski 2,800,000 93 Alberto Ciglioano 2,800,000 93 Marco Luksa 2,775,000 93 Raoul Van Wersch 2,450,000 82 Maciej Toma 2,300,000 77 Marc Bougaret 2,080,000 69 Marco Perra 2,050,000 68

Players Eliminated During Level 25

Place Player Prize 58 Samuele Lo Presti €4,690 59 Ettore Esposito €4,690 60 Timothy Chung €4,690 61 Pietro Turdo €4,690 62 Eros Nastasi €4,690 63 Paul-Vlad Craciunas €4,690 64 Nicolaj D’Antonio €4,690 65 Ferdinand Janssen €4,690 66 Paolo Anselmo €4,690 67 Eirik Bjoerbaek €4,690  

Second Break

Players are on their second short break of Day 3. The blinds will increase to 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 big blind ante when the action resumes. We will update some of the bigger stacks from around the room at the break.

Chop It Up

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 60/3,432 I arrived at the table on the turn with the board reading and Zvezdan Tadic was counting out a bet of 475k. Herli Orlap shoved with the biggest stack, and Tadic snapped him off. Both players were on king-queen, however, and they chopped it up with both players holding…

Campione Flashes a Ten

Level 25: 20,000/40,000 (40,000) Entries: 60/3,432 Salvatore Ritrovato limped from under the gun before Salvatore Caruso raised to 85,000 from one seat over. Davide Campione three-bet to 215,000 from the small blind and Ritrovato folded. Meanwhile, Caruso went into the tank for about 30 seconds before he called. Campione fired out for 200,000 on the…