Caruso’s Aces Cracked, Tournament Life Kaputt

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 –…

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Break Time

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…

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Ameed Khalil destroyed by Roberto Caprio

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…

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Lappin Getting Short

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…

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Maksym Sheingart Dents Dario Minieri’s Stack

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…

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Ladies Kind for Bellanca

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…

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Dario Minieri takes out Dumitru Sandu

Level 23: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 40/1,992 Dumitru Sandu was down to a handful of big blinds and was all-in against Dario Minieri before the flop. Dumitru Sandu showed and Minieri had him crushed with . The board didn’t help Sandu as it fell , sending him packing. Dario Minieri – 1,600,000 Dumitru Sandu – 0

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