All-In and “No I Didn’t Call”

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 On a flop of and facing a bet of 350,000 from Jan Gompers, Charalampos Siakaras pushed all-in for just over 3m. His German opponent asked for a count, but Siakaras misheard it as a call and exposed his hand . After the inevitable initial confusion,…

Back and Forth

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 On a board with roughly X in the middle, Veljko Glavicic checked it over to Jorge Geraldes, who bet 400,000. Glavicic wasted little time before raising to 1,000,000, and Geraldes made the call. The dealer revealed the on the river. Glavicic now bet 1,500,000, and…

Lubczynski Wins the Lot

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 25/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 I arrived at Table 5 when the board read , with a whopping 10,000,000 in the middle. Charalampos Siakaras had checked it over to Rafal Lubczynski, who’d forced his opponent all in for just north of 5,000,000. Siakaras spent no less than 10 minutes in…

Current State of Play

There are now six tournaments running in the Eden conference space, as the final flung for the €400 White Knight has just begun and there are two further tournaments this evening. Here’s the current start of play. Time Tournament Name Buy-in Status Entries/Remaining 14:00 BOM Day 4 1,500,000 GTD – In Play – Level 30…

Main Event Payouts: 25th-39th

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 The Main Event has just gone down to three tables, with 24 players left. Absentee Darren Harbinson’s stack has now been felted, but he managed to ladder up one place on the payouts since the start of the day, finishing in 28th place. Other recent…

Big Pot for Modans; Koopman Bids Farewell

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 25/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Frank Koopman opened to 450,000 from the Hi-jack. Seated in the Big Blind, Davis Modans was the sole caller. Modans check-called a 650,000 bet from Koopman on the flop. After another check by Modans on the turn, Koopman sized up to 1,300,000. Again, Modans made…

H.O.R.S.E Play

Today is the €300 H.O.R.S.E, which is now in-running with 31 riders at the start of the second lap of the course. One of the steadiest jockeys, Scott Kenyon, was the first to arrive at the starting line. We’ll update you more on this event later, when more mares and stallions have joined the canter.

Man on a Mission

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 28/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 The current chip leader, Ioannis Daskalis, is rolling like a train. He was recently involved in quite an interesting hand. He opened to 400,000 from the Cut-off, and got one caller in form of Marco D’amico in the Big Blind. Action went check-check on the…

Chip Counts at the 1st Break of the Day

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 29/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Play has just resumed after the first break of the day and there are 29 players left in the Main Event. Overnight chip leader Ioannis Daskalis has extended his lead and is the first play to construct a stack of over 20m. Darren Harbinson’s unguided…