EPT BADEN - Final Day Live Update - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Blinds now 10k/20k, ante 2k.

Play has restarted.

[Djinn]

And what a surprise, first hand back, "Dario announces 'raise'"

The 60k bet is met with a re-raise from Daniel Dodet, however, 200k worth.  Pass with the Ace shown, which kind of feels like some kind of poker cliche.

[Djinn]

I like this easy table form for the less action-y hands, and it is in no way because I am a little bit lazy:

Action                                                                         No of times occurring

Dario takes it down preflop                                                                 3
Thang gets pushed off his preflop raise by Dario moving in                      1
Ben makes up the sb and wins a little pot betting the river                     1
Ben Johnson takes it down preflop                                                      1
Sasa opts not to play his hand                                                            6

[Djinn]

Daniel Dodet wakes up, winning two successive pots, once with a simple preflop raise, and once with the same raise but with the added bonus of there having been a flat call from Thang, which he readily abandoned.

[Djinn]

Action of the fully reportable kind!

Sasa moves in with
Dario calls with

Flop: 
Turn: 
River:  the camera didn't care

SO we have a fifth place finisher in Sasa Biorac, who wins €94,335

[Djinn]

Dario Minieri raises quite a bit, but isn't shy about throwing the clearly filthy hands away when a timely re-raise (like Daniel's just now) traps his fingers in the till.

Threeway called flop seen (I think my language skills may be deteriorising)

Flop: 
Turn:    Dario bets, Thang calls, they lose the third guy
  Thang checks, then so does Dario - 45 in Thang's hand takes it, and he mutters, "No bluff?"

[Djinn]

Thang raises on the button to 55k, Daniel in the small blind re-raises to 165k, Dario clearly doesn't feel like sitting one out, so re-re-raises to 390k.
Before Thang passes a press pundit goes "Squeeze play," and it looks like a good call... Daniel doesn't look thrilled about facing this new raise, and Dario makes his mind up, saying "I could be crazy - I'm Italian...I play for fun!"  He passes.

Dario shows .

[Djinn]

Flop:    Thang and Dario check, in that order
Turn:    Thang checks, 60k from Dario, call
River: 

Dario finds the pause button, and checkswhile Thang collects the pot with his straight (7 .

[Djinn]

Ben Johnson raises it up to 140k, over the initial raiser's 60k or so (one guess who that was).  Pass.  That's it, that is all the action for 45 minutes now.  They're on a nice long break.  I am going to use up half of it eating steak, and the other half annoying Danafish, who probably doesn't know how to block me on msn.

Back around 7:30pm UK time, 8:30pm here.

[Djinn]

OK, we're back and the four-handed play begins...

I bet you'd like to know the chip standings - well, OK then:

Ben Johnson        1,210,000
Dario Minieri           720,000
Daniel Dodet         680,000
Thang Nguyen      600,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Daniel raises from UTG, Thang calls in the big blind.

Thang checks and Daniel pushes all-in on flop, insta-call from Thang showing for the nuts, Daniel has

Turn:



River:

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Thang doubles up and Daniel has 4k left...

[Djinn]

Just to rub it in, Daniel Dodet now has to play another hand all-in on the big blind for his remaining 4,000 (blinds currently 15k/30k ante 3k so actually he's got 1k of his blind in).

Ben Johnson raises this hand and he has , fair enough.
for the little all-in stack.

The board comes

And although this isn't the hand Daniel Dodet will have nightmares about, it officially places him 4th, for €110,057

[NoflopsHomer]

Dario -- 700k
Ben -- 1.4 mil
Thang -- 1.4mil

Approx according to the all-seeing Edgar.

[Djinn]

And almost immediately afterwards, Dario Minieri moves in, and a gasp went round the audience as Thang Nguyen took him on.
Thang showed: 
Dario showed: 

Flop: 
Turn: 
River:   

And you can just feel the room deflate a little bit as Dario's mates who were the best bet for some later clapping move to congratulate and commiserate.

Dario Minieri finishes 3rd, winning €125,780

[Djinn]

Big Pot Preflop Prompts Me to Pay Attention to the Flop:

Flop:    Thang checks, Ben bets 450,000.  Thang moves all-in.  Surprise ricochets around the press room.  Ben doesn't appear to like that very much.  The bet, not our interest in it.  Ben asks, "Will you show me your cards if I fold?"  I think that generallly comes, in a deep-think situation, about 1.4 minutes before a fold.

Big sigh.

Fold.

Ben is still desperate to know Thang's hand.  "You guys get his cards there?  I'm going to have to move to Europe so I can see it...."