EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo: Final Table - Interactive

[Djinn]

Soren takes a re-raise knock and just gets straight back in it - raising on the button, but Gavin comes over the top again from the small blind - and again, he gets the pot instead of the all-in he may well have been expecting.

[NoflopsHomer]

Soren Kongsgaard is OUT in 3rd place winning €610,550

He made his move on the turn with against Gavin's when the came on the turn, only to find himself drawing dead and the river wasn't shown.

We are now into Heads-Up action.

[Djinn]

Approximate counts:

Marc Karam    6,000,000
Gavin Griffin   4,600,000

[Djinn]

Blinds still 20k/40k

One small pot each so far - unless something drastic and cold-decky happens fast, I have a feeling this might take a while.  Although Gavin has gone through periods of constant preflop raising (see: Day Two, all of) he doesn't appear reckless, and doesn't look like his patience will give out at this most crucial of stages.

Another flop   Marc 50k, Gavin raises and Marc instapasses.
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On a dangerous -8x- board, Gavin bets 130k  Marc calls.
River:    A 225k bet on this river is enough to win another one for Gavin.

[AndrewT]

Approximate counts:

Marc Karam    6,000,000
Gavin Griffin   4,600,000

And with blinds at only 20K/40K both players have over 100BBs. Should be a lot of good, proper poker here.

[Djinn]

They're going to get a fantastic number of hands per hour heads up - flops are being seen and bet-folded on faster than we can type.  Both players seem pretty no-nonsense when it comes to acting - I don't think there'll be much pointless dwelling or theatrics.  Excellent.  But we may be here until Saturday.

[Djinn]

And some evening of stacks has occurred - Gavin has pulled back to 5 mil, playing 5.6 mil.   Drawing level...

[Djinn]

  Ten minute break - Snoopy has the best of the last half hour for you...

[AndrewT]

  Ten minute break - Snoopy has the best of the last half hour for you...

Is the feed on a delay - they've only just gone on break on the feed 20 seconds ago.

[snoopy1239]

Prior to the break, it was very much a case of 'gradualy grind your opponent down' with most hands just seeing one or two bets max.

We did witness one hand right at the end though in which Marc raised to 100k, Gavin made it 400k and Marc called. Ad-8s-2h Flop, Gavin takes it down with a 500k bet, although he did knock his chips over in the process. I'd love to think that was intentional.

[snoopy1239]

In order to show you the general 'grindiness' of play, the 10 hands prior to that were as follows:

(1) Gavin folds pre-flop.
(2) 4c-7d-Tc-As board, Gavin bets 70k, Marc calls. Th River. Both check an Ace. Chop chop.
(3) Marc raises 120k and Gavin folds.
(4) Jd-Tc-9h Flop, Gavin bets, Marc folds.
(5) Marc folds pre-flop.
(6) Gavin raises 100k, Marc calls. 2s-7s-6h-9h, Marc bets 150k, wins.
(7) Jd-8h-9d board, Gavin bets 50k, Marc folds
(8) 5c-8h-9d, Marc bets 150k, Gavin folds
(9) Marc raises 120k, called. 7d Qs 4h board, Gavin bets 190k, wins.
(10) 7s-7d-Ks-6d-6s, Gavin wins with Ace.

[snoopy1239]

  Ten minute break - Snoopy has the best of the last half hour for you...

Is the feed on a delay - they've only just gone on break on the feed 20 seconds ago.

Not sure, what day is it on the feed?

[OMAY]

THANK YOU
                       Snoopy Jen and Homer
                      Great reporting as always
           

[NoflopsHomer]

Heads-Up photos.

[Djinn]

OK, to sum up  - Gavin's taken three preflop, so has Marc, but on balance Marc Karam came out of the cautious early play ahead as one of his pots was won with a re-raise.

One big hand in the middle of this - Gavin called on the button, Marc raised on the big blind another 150k; call.
Flop:    Marc bet out 300k.  Gavin raised to 700k and faced an almost immediate re-raise of a million.  He gave it up, and his opponent a 1 mil chip advantage at the same time.

Very impressed with their let's-get-on-with-it style of play - as the commentary says, they're both comfortable playing live (and have had considerable success) but grew up with the online world in parallel.  This way they're not numbingly bored by live play with cards, but they're used to making decisions quickly.