Pace Hero Calls for Tournament Life

Level 24: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 45/1,814 Luke Pace limped in from the small blind and Filippo Busatto checked his option in the big blind. Pace then check-called Busatto’s 25,000 bet on the flop, as well as the 30,000 bet on the turn. On the river Busatto put Pace all-in for his final 145,000 chips and…

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A Case of Mistaken Identity

Lithuanian poker players are a well traveled bunch and they roam in packs. It’s rare to see just one or two Lithuanians at an overseas poker event, if you see one there’s probably at least a dozen of them in the event. The Battle of Malta is a popular event with players from northern Europe,…

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Zisis Adds To His Stack

Level 24: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 45/1,814 Vasileios Zisis started day 3 as the chip leader with a 1,6 million stack. He opened yet another pot and Mariusz Janczarski flatted from the small blind. Janczarski check-raised the 65,000 bet to 180,000 on the flop and got a call from Zisis. The turn was another diamond which…

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Zube Doubles Against Big Stack

Level 24: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 45/1,814 Egidijus Zube got in his stack of 305,000 chips from the small blind against start-of-day chipleader Vasileios Zisis on the button. Egidijus Zube: Vasileios Zisis: Zube flopped top set on , but the turn brought Zisis some outs. The river failed to bring in Broadway, however, and Zube happily…

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Stepping Puts Chips to Use

Level 24: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 46/1,814 Francesco Tino raised to 60,000 from middle position and Jan-Joost van den Bogert made the call from the cutoff. Chipleader Rasmus Stepping then squeezed to 280,000 from the small blind. Tino took a minute or so before he folded, after which Van den Bogert quickly followed suit. When asked…

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Kings Hold, Kings Don’t Hold

Level 24: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 49/1,814 Alessandro D’Amore jammed his last 12 blinds with against Filippo Busatto’s pocket kings and didn’t manage to get an ace on the board. D’amore ended up busting the tournament after losing it all. And on the near table we had an open from Alfredo Cuti and another jam from…

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Agnoletto Doubles Up

Level 24: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 52/1,814 Andrea Agnoletto opened from under the gun to 50,000 and got a single call from Giuseppe Gallo who was sitting on the button. To the flop and Agnoletto continued for another 80,000. Galio put him all in and Agnoletto snapped. Andrea Agnoletto had pocket kings against his opponents second…

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