Pokerstars.com EPT London: Day 3 - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Robert Firestone has been knocked out by Gualter Salles, against . But a hit the board leaving us redrawing for 2 tables.

*****************We're now on a 1 hour dinner break******************

[jpean]

How is Alexia ? I think that she was short stack, isn't it ?

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has now just restarted, an early double for Frode Gjesdal through Eric Liu but nothing else so far.

[NoflopsHomer]

How is Alexia ? I think that she was short stack, isn't it ?

Last lady standing, Alexia Portal is also out, moving all-in over the top of Peter Busch's raise with pocket sevens against his A-Q but the board came meaning she left to much applause.

[jpean]

oups 

thank you NoFlopsHomer

[Colchester Kev]

watched the live feed a bit earlier, Noah boaken was a decent co commentator.

[JungleCat03]

Christopher Wolters has been on life support for some time now and he made his move with the pretty looking , only to run headfirst into Marcin Horecki's big slick, .

His tournament life on the line, the Canadian Wolters was looking dead in the water going ot the flop.

The flop fell though, a great flop for Wolters, giving him some flush outs to get out of the hole...

The turn was met with a sigh from Horecki as he saw the pot beginning to go the wrong way...

"All Horecki needs is a King on the river that's not a heart!" was John Duthie's excited, but a tad inaccurate commentary at this point, proven as the fell on the river, but with two pair Queens and Kings Wolters had completed the outdraw to double through to 160k+ whilst a rueful looking Horecki was now left short, crippled and in big trouble...


Needing a double up, Horecki went for the throat with , only for his nemesis Wolters to make the call with and it looked like he was about to deliver the deathblow to Horecki over the span of just a few hands.

The flop fell an interesting to give the Pole some hope in the form of a gutshot. The turn was a very interesting , adding a flush draw to his chances, as well as converting his gutshot straight draw to an open ended...

"What is going on at this table!" a bemused Wolters pondered outloud...

The river was the ! Both the straight and the flush draw hit, meaning Horecki had his revenge and the Pole, though still short, is back in the game at least temporarily...

[NoflopsHomer]

Here is a large cooler:

Click to see full-size image.

Here is a hand that could be equally considered a large cooler.

Max Pescatori raises preflop and Michael Martin calls.



Max bets 52k and after a think for a minute, Martin calls.



Max bets 60k, Martin either sets Max all-in or raises and Max moves all-in, it doesn't matter so much as all the chips go in and Max flips for a set, but Martin turns over !!!! Max can't believe it and throws his glasses into the middle next to his chips as the river is peeled off. Max Pescatori is out in 15th place. Michael Martin has around 1.4 million chips, which is almost 25% of those in play.

"Good internet players always have a monster hand when they cold-call a raise like that," observes Ramzi Jelassi.

Earlier we lost Joe Elpayaa who moved in with over the top of a button raise from Sjordin who called with , the board coming (some outs) (3 more) .

[JungleCat03]

Pot after pot after pot!

Wolters seems to be at the epicenter of everything at the moment.

The latest large pot played out involved David Benyamine and Christopher Wolters.

Alan Smurfit was also involved preflop and the three players went to the flop which fell Ten high. There was some action, which was enough to get Smurfit to bail out of the hand but Benyamine and Wolters went to the turn at which point the rest of Wolters now shrivelled stack went into the middle and Benyamine gave him action.

With 9-9 Benyamine might have thought he was good, although the sick expression on the large Frenchman's face said it all as Wolters showed T-J, which was good for a 250,000 pot!

Benyamine was knocked back to 220,000 though...

[NoflopsHomer]

Before and after, the set over set hand:

[NoflopsHomer]

watched the live feed a bit earlier, Noah boaken was a decent co commentator.

I wasn't a huge fan, but he was better than most of the Stars people. Bring back Brandon Schaefer and Ryan Daut!!!

[Colchester Kev]

watched the live feed a bit earlier, Noah boaken was a decent co commentator.

I wasn't a huge fan, but he was better than most of the Stars people. Bring back Brandon Schaefer and Ryan Daut!!!

And NEVER give vanessa rousso a microphone imo.

[Tonji]

watched the live feed a bit earlier, Noah boaken was a decent co commentator.

I wasn't a huge fan, but he was better than most of the Stars people. Bring back Brandon Schaefer and Ryan Daut!!!

And NEVER give Vanessa Rousso a microphone imo.

Gavin Griffin does a good job.

I like the way Pokerstars get their players involved with the media work.

[JungleCat03]

watched the live feed a bit earlier, Noah boaken was a decent co commentator.

I wasn't a huge fan, but he was better than most of the Stars people. Bring back Brandon Schaefer and Ryan Daut!!!

And NEVER give Vanessa Rousso a microphone imo.

Gavin Griffin does a good job.

I like the way Pokerstars get their players involved with the media work.

I think Floppy should be given the gig.

There's not nearly enough referencing of obscure Futurama characters and incomprehensible Omaha bad beats in the EPTlive commentary in my opinion...

[JungleCat03]

Alan Smurfit raises it up and is given a spin by Frode Gjesdal of Norway.

He checks the flop, only for Frode to bet out a half pot bet...

Smurfit now shoved his 500k ish stack into the middle with shaking hands, but Frode wasn't interesed in continuing following this large check raise from Smurfit and threw his hand away.

The Irishman is now handily placed...


Marcin Horecki has used his short stack well, shoving and re-shoving plenty of times to pick up enough blinds and enough folded raises that he is starting to get back into contention a little with 270k or so...


Also on the up from earlier is Johannes Strassman. Following a nightmare start to the day with 75% of his stack gone by dinner, Johannes has managed to work his way back into things and has 300k or so at the moment...