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…
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000) Entries: 33/1,992 The Chip Race podcast co-host David Lappin is one of the players the live reporting team is secretly rooting for. Well, I guess the secret is out of the bag but Lappin will need some hands or some luck soon as he is short on chips after the following…
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000) Entries: 36/1,992 Maksym Sheingart opened from middle position to 60k and Dario Minieri reraised to 160k right behind him. It folded back to Sheingart who called. Flop: – Sheingart checked, Minieri bet 165k and now Sheingart raised to 335k Minieri called the check-raise. Turn: – Sheingart checked again and once more…
Level 24: 10,500/30,000 (30,000) Entries: 37/1,992 Dario Barone opened for 65,000 from the button and was called by Andrea Agnoletto from the small blind. Giorgio Bellanca, who had a big stack to start the hand despite starting the day with one of the shorter stacks, three-bet to 255,000. Barone called and Angoletto folded before the…
We’re entering the second hour of the day with the blinds going up to 15,000 / 30,000. After this level players will go on a 20 minute break. Right now Victor Fryda is still in the lead with more than 4m chips.