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2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Malta
We missed the elimination of Poland's Jose Carlos Garcia, but we learned a few details after the fact.
According to Dani Stern, it happened when Philipp Gruissem raised the button and Garcia three-bet jammed from the big blind for a little over 100K. Gruissem called with ![]()
, which was ahead of Garcia's ![]()
offsuit.
Garcia managed to pull ahead when the ![]()
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flop delivered him a pair, but when an
spiked on the river it put a dagger through his heart.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000
151,000
|
151,000 |
|
|
Eliminado |
Jose Carlos Garcia from Poland just raised to 9,100 from the cutoff and Andreas Eiler three-bet from the small blind to 26,500. Garcia tanked for about a minute before four-betting to 44,600 and Eiler made the call.
The flop brought out ![]()
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and Eiler check-called 18,000. On the turn the
hit and both players checked.
The river completed the board with the
and this time it was Eiler who took the betting lead with 36,000. Garcia folded his cards and Eiler picked up this pot.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
267,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
|
|
115,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Dan Smith moved all in before the flop for 46,700 and the action folded to Ihar Soika in the small blind. Soika gave it some thought and decided to go all in over the top for about 80,000 more. Sam Greenwood, seated in the big blind, called and with that he put two players at risk of being eliminated.
Smith: ![]()
Soika: ![]()
Greenwood: ![]()
The board ran out ![]()
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and Soika hit the rail while Smith tripled up. Greenwood also profited on the hand as we are down to 19 players.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
485,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
142,500
87,500
|
87,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
Eliminado | |
Start-of-day chip leader Oleksii Khoroshenin has been knocked out of the tournament. The Ukrainian player had a tough day today, losing lots of chips early on to Nick Petrangelo, and losing the rest just now in back to back hands.
First he check raised all in on a flop of ![]()
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with ![]()
from the big blind. Ramin Hajiyev in the cutoff had ![]()
and that hand was still good after the
hit the turn and
hit the river.
Khoroshenin lost 83,800 in that hand, and had just 15,000 left after that.
He moved in for 14,700 not much later. His button shove got called by Philipp Gruissem in the big blind. The German player had ![]()
while Khoroshenin had gone to battle with ![]()
.
The flop came ![]()
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and Gruissem pointed at the six to make sure everyone saw he hat hit. Khoroshenin for sure knew, and he got up from the table while the dealer put the
and the
out to complete the board.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
172,600
77,600
|
77,600 |
|
|
149,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
|
Eliminado | |
|
|
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We saw Simon Ravnsbæk walking away from the table, still smiling as usual. He did just got knocked out though, and we asked Isaac Haxton what had happened.
Haxton told us that Connor Drinan had opened and Simon Ravnsbæk had shoved fro his last 25,000. Drinan made the call.
Drinan had ![]()
off suit while Ravnsbæk was the owner of ![]()
. Drinan's hand held up and Ravnsbæk hit the rail.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
640,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
Eliminado |
Salman Behbehani shoved all in from early position for his last 32,000. Action folded to Daniel Dvoress who shoved over the top all in. The big blind folded.
Salman Behbehani: ![]()
Daniel Dvoress: ![]()
The flop was pretty good for Dvoress, giving him a pair and a flush draw: ![]()
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.
Behbehani wouldn't hit one the spare outs he had left;
on the turn,
on the river.
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,500
40,500
|
40,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
Eliminado | |
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
460,000 | |
|
|
258,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
|
214,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
210,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
190,000
3,600
|
3,600 |
|
|
||
|
|
179,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
160,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
36,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
| Jugador | Fichas | Progreso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
450,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
200,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
160,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
150,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
140,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
80,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
55,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
35,000
165,000
|
165,000 |