PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 4 - Interactive

[WarBwastard]

The play went limp antonio two other limpers. The Stig in BB dwelled long time and pushed all in (shocker). Antonio insta-cal (gasp from crowd) and got muffed for 700k, sweet.

lol this was so sick. He overshoved 70 big blinds... after Antonio limped UTG and button and SB called. He's only getting called if dominated.... deffo worst play of the day!

Absolutely shocking.  Feel very bad for Antonio.  Even my niece wouldn't have made a play as bad as that and I don't even have a niece.

[dusterman]

The play went limp antonio two other limpers. The Stig in BB dwelled long time and pushed all in (shocker). Antonio insta-cal (gasp from crowd) and got muffed for 700k, sweet.

lol this was so sick. He overshoved 70 big blinds... after Antonio limped UTG and button and SB called. He's only getting called if dominated.... deffo worst play of the day!

Was awful why do they always get away with it? If i did that in a live £5 freezeout i'd hit nada  

GL antonio at least he gets a break to cool off.

[kpnuts]

Happened to catch that hand live on EPTtv. Feel so sorry for Antonio, he was really tearing up the table and Stig fell right into his trap. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!!!

[danafish]

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[scotty2hatty]

"loyalty bonus"?

[danafish]

"loyalty bonus"?

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[snoopy1239]

Play has restarted, and right from the off, there's an all-in on the feature table from Eric Lui. With his hood scrunched over his face and concealing various facial features in the process, Eric waits patiently for his opponent to come to a decision. Eventually, Eric takes down the pot uncontested and lives to fight another day.

[danafish]

Snoopy - "Why's Junglecat's head so small? He looks more like a testicle."

Weep! for the assault on my photoshopping skills.

[snoopy1239]

For those watching the live feed of the feature table, feel free give us the low-down on how the play's going, who looking strong, who seems to be trying to climb the ladder and so on,

[scotty2hatty]

"loyalty bonus"?

how come kev hasn't PMed me yet? been nearly 15mins

[JungleCat03]

Snoopy - "Why's Junglecat's head so small? He looks more like a testicle."

Weep! for the assault on my photoshopping skills.

As long as no one gets the idea to leave the original cat head and photoshop 2 copies of my "testicle"-sized head to the rear underside of the cat I will be happy.

If such a scenario does arise, i will wreak photoshop war!!!!!!

Great job guys, very funny stuff.

[snoopy1239]

Action on the feature table as Valeriy Ilikyan and Wallid Bou Habib find themselves coinflipping, Lebanon's Bou Habib making the final call with two red Eights, . Valeriy, meanwhile, flips over and quietly whispers sweet nothings into the ears of the Poker Gods. With announcer Lee Jones leaning over the shoulder of the dealer, Bou Habib rises from his chair in anticipation and is soon joined by Ilikyan who quickly follows suit.

The board itself is a rollercoaster, the Flop placing the Russian in the lead, but the Turn giving his opponent an extra nine outs. However, although some members of the pressroom were chanting diamond as if replicating the mind-numbingly annoying insurance advert, it was the straight that appeared, the River resulting in a chop chop and an understandable gesture of frustration from Ilikyan.

[snoopy1239]

Valeriy Ilikyan must have ants in his pants (either that or, er, a short stack) as just moments later he's all-in again. for the second consecutive time, he finds a caller, this time in the form of young Eric Liu who has A-T. Relieved not to be dominated, Ilikyan shows K-Q, which goes on to hit not only trips on a Q-Q-5 board, but also a full house on the 5 Turn, and an even bigger full house on the K River. Pure greed!

[snoopy1239]

Latest chip counts from the last break courtesy of Mad Harper of PokerStars.com:

Stig Top-Rasmussen    Denmark     1,427,000    1    2
Robin Keston    UK      1,390,000    2    7
Isaac Baron    USA    Cash                   1,112,000    2    6
Denes Kalo    Hungary       1,040,000    3    6
Oyvind Riisem    Norway       993,000    1    6
Antonio Esfandiari    USA      975,000    1    4
Maxime Villemure    Canada    671,000    1    7
David Miria    France      660,000    2    1
Glen Chorny    Canada    Cash                     635,000    2    8
Joe Hachem    Australia    Team PokerStars Pro                     554,000    2    5
Luca Pagano    Italy    Team PokerStars Pro                     553,000    3    7
Michael Martin    USA       512,000    3    3
Thomas Boekhoff    Germany     448,000    2    4
Johnny Lodden    Norway    390,000    3    4
Amit Makhija    USA    Cash                     340,000    3    2
Henrik Gwinner    Denmark    340,000    3    5
Vincent Secher    France    Cash                     290,000    2    3
Eric Liu    USA  255,000    1    5
Walid Bou Habib    Lebanon     177,000    1    1
Valeriy Ilikyan    Russia      154,000    1    8

[Djinn]

EXIT – this time it is Amit Makhija, who falls in 20th spot, winning € 46,300…

It was a bit of a strange one.  Denes Kalo raised under the gun to what looked like 32k.  Over to Glen Chorny, who flat called.  Button Amit now put in a re-raise, making it an even 100k.  Back to the original raiser, who freezes in place and stares, before deciding he’s better off out of this one.*  But Chorny pretty much instantly moves all in – Amit is covered so he makes the call all in, and faster than we would have expected:

Glen Chorny shows: 
Amit Makhija shows: 

They stand, as is traditional, and pictured below.  The board comes out all rags with the on the river and thus busts Makhija.

*Thus would have won Denes Kalo, who passed, quite correctly, A-J.