But that does not slow anyone down in this part of the world. We just lost probably our first player of the day, who had flopped the nut straight, was called down 15, on the turn by a player with a set of fives, which made a full house on the river. All in, call, get out. His opponent, who had first bet 1,, called. So far things are going well.
His stack just increased again. Up to 38, Brenes has started quietly, but all hell might break loose when he finds his way to the other end of the tournament arena.
There he might find another as-yet unnamed player sitting with a shark as a card protector. But with all those Italians swarming around — designer sunglasses, perfectly tailored sweaters thrown over shoulders, chasing draws and then folding on the river — the best of the internet generation from North America, Scandinavia, Russia and the UK has also decided to make the trip.
He also has Stefan Matsson and Rui Milhomens for company. Lacay is on the up after five-bet bluffing an opponent off a jack-high flop before showing ace-ten. Too much heat for Boatman who folded. This being Italy, I see no reason to think otherwise. Howard Swains is a freelance journalist based in London. More About The Author. Dec 30, in Uncategorized. Kerignard: 9 9 Gastaldi: A J. The remaining nine players will now be drawn onto one table and play will continue until we lose one more.
One more player need to go before we move onto one table, then one more before we call an end to play. The Russian had opened the pot for a min-raise and Tarallo had shoved all-in for about , Tarallo: A Q Pateychuk: K 7. Angelo Tarallo. The turn and river came K 9 and both players checked it down. MacPhee opened fro , in middle position which was called by Danchev in the cut off. The flop came J Q 5.
MacPhee bet another ,, called. Another , on the A turn. A river card of Q completed the board. MacPhee, moving very fast, pushed out , Danchev, acting much slower, and with about 2,, behind, went for his chips, arranging some towers and pushing forward 1,, MacPhee looked like he gulped, and braced himself to speak.
MacPhee burst from his seat, slamming down his cards, which the dealer collected, revealing K MacPhee was devastated, upset, all things. More importantly he was suddenly down to 1,, while Danchev moved up to 4,, Cap and glasses removed, MacPhee sat back down, tossing in his next ante with a clatter. The damage now done. MacPhee has work to do. The Italian tapped the table and mucked.
Push or fold mode for him. A standard , c-bet was checl-called by Lodden on a 9 Q 3 flop. Both players checked the A turn before Lodden returned to check-call mode on the A river when Danchev bet , The Bulgarian showed A 8 with an excitable flourish to take the pot. He open shoved his last , and was called by Andrey Pateychuk.
Isaia: 7 5 Pateychuk: A J. The board ran Q K 3 A 10 to make the Russian top pair and then a straight on the river. Players are now on a 15 minute break. Both players had moved all-in pre-flop to create the showdown:. The board ran an uneventful 4 4 9 6 3 to send the pot to Tarallo. McClung got involved in two large pots — one against Kevin MacPhee, the other Jan Bendik — and both times he found himself dominated.
Not the finish he would have looked for but largely an impressive performance nonetheless. McClung up to around , Chris McClung: happy face for getting a shove through. Chris McClung came into today as chip leader and extended that chip lead after eliminating two players in one hand. Since then his day has gone terribly. The latest blow came when he doubled up Jan Bendik. The two were heads-up to a 9 6 K flop and all the chips went in.
Chris McClung: sad face for lost pot. The action folded to Johnny Lodden in the big blind who cold four-bet to , and took the pot. He just opened three pots and lost all three. Hand 1. He opened to 85, from the button and folded to a , three-bet from Andrey Pateychuk in the small blind. Hand 2. He opened to 80, from the button to see Barny Boatman three-bet to , from the small blind and Dimitar Danchev four-bet to , from the big blind.
MacPhee and Boatman passed. Hand 3. He opened to 85, from the hijack and Patrick Gastaldi defended the bib blind. The action checked to the river where the board read 9 Q 6 10 K. Gastaldi led for 75, and MacPhee folded. Andrey Pateychuk was one beneficiary, as was Dimitar Danchev, raising behind a bet from Barny Boatman. Barny Boatman puckering up.
It was too soon. Daniel Neilson was all-in for his tournament life with 1,, across the line and Bendik had him covered.
The flop delivered all kinds of permutations with K 10 9. The J turn caused the clench as Bendik made his straight, but Neilson still had plenty of boat outs. And, of course, a single quad out. The J slid onto the river giving four-of-a-kind. Lodden re-raised to take the pot heads up and showed queens. Veldhuis let out a sorry laugh, Lodden had dismantled most of his stack just before the break with the same hand. Lodden: Q Q Veldhuis: 9 5.
The 7 J 10 2 9 board provided plenty of outs but Veldhuis failed to catch the river. Lodden up to 2,,, Veldhuis out. Will the Canadian rally? The TV table. Photos by Neil Stoddart. He opened for 60, in early position which Johnny Lodden raised to , from the big blind. The board came K K 4 J 8. It sent the pot to Lodden but a count had to be made to see how much Veldhuis would have left, if anything. He was still alive but with only 37, This went in on the next hand from early position.
Dimitar Danchev raised to 95, and Patrick Gastaldi raised to , Gastaldi tanked, then folded a pair of jacks. The board ran A 2 7 2 5 to keep Veldhuis alive, heading into the break with , The board ran out a tantalizing 3 10 J A 2 rocketing MacPhee into the chip lead with 3,, MClung is still more than alive with 1,, Kevin MacPhee: on for the double?
He raised to 65, from early position and then tank-called when Andrey Pateychuk three-bet to , from the small blind. The flop came down 5 A 3 and the Russian led for , They were the last chips that ventured into the middle as the 8 5 turn and river were checked through by both players. Isaia had opened from the cut-off for 60, and had been called by Andreas Samuelsson and MacPhee in the big blind. Flop: J A 6 — all three checked. MacPhee showed A 7 for top trips.
Neilson checked the river over to his Canadian opponent who checked behind showing 10 5. Danchev had opened from under the gun, betting 65, The board came 3 A 6 3 3 , the ace doubling Gastaldi once more.
Pateychuk raised to 60, from early position and Kerignard defended his big blind to see a 10 8 6 flop. He check-called a 80, bet before checking to face a , bet on the J turn. His response was to click-raise it up to , and call when Pateychuk moved all-in for his remaining 1,, Pateychuk: 8 8 for a set.
Kerignard: J 10 for top two-pair. The river came 7 and sat as he watched half his stack slide over to the other side of the table. He has about 1,, chips left. Tarallo rivered an unneeded straight on a J 4 3 2 5 board to double up to , Skrill are the official payment provider of EPT Season 8. Angello Tarllo, winner of the Skrill last longer bet. Barny Boatman then raised to , prompting Cedolia to move all in for around , The turn came 2 and the river Q to send Cedolia to the rail and leave Boatman with around 2,, The video blog team caught up with him earlier.
Dimitar Danchev had raised to 60, from the button and called the shove. Danchev: A 8 Gastaldi: 10 The board ran J 10 4 7 J. Gastaldi flopped a set but still had to sweat the river as Dachev picked up straight outs.
Hold… — RD. Andrey Pateychuk, 1,, 2. Barny Boatman, 2,, 3. Dimitar Danchev, 1,, 4. Patrick Gastaldi, , 5. Johnny Lodden, 1,, 6. Gianluca Cedolia, , 8. Lex Veldhuis, 1,, Daniel Nielsen, 1,, 2.
Andreas Samuelsson, , 3. Kevin MacPhee, 1,, 4. Jan Bendik, 3,, 5. Christopher McClung, 3,, 6. Angelo Tarallo, , 7.
Alessio Isaia, 1,, 8. Rocco Palumbo, , Gianluca Cedolia raised to 55, from early position and Vesco called all-in for his last 45, from the small blind.
Johnny Lodden was in the big blind and called also. The flop came 3 A 3 and both players checked to the 10 turn. Cedolia bet and that forced out Lodden. Cedolia: A Q Vesco: K 6. That was the last hand of the level.
The players have 15 minutes to cool off away from the stage lights. First he took Boatman off a , three-bet out of the small blind with a cut-off four-bet to , A few hands later Boatman called a raise from the Frenchman and check-called 51, on a J A 3 flop before both players checked the A turn. The Brit then led , into the 6 river and was raised to around , before snap folding.
Boatman down to 1,,, Kerignard up to 2,, Yorane Kerignard had opened the hand from under the gun for 50, which Barny Boatman had raised to , from the cut-off. McDonald then pushed all in for around half a million from the big blind. McDonald turned over 10 McDonald was out, shaking hands with his opponents and wishing them good luck.
Down to 17 players in the main event. Mike McDonald, out in 17th. The flop came 9 A A. Cedolia checked to MacPhee who bet 82,, which was called by Lodden only. On the 5 turn both checked for a 6 river. MacPhee checked, then folded to a bet of , from Lodden. He open shoved his last 76, and was isolated by Lex Velduis who three-bet to , Vesco: 8 5 Veldhuis: A K. The board ran A Q J 4 5 to make the Italian a flush. Boatman c-bet 26, into a high K A A flop and Pateychuk made the call.
Both players checked the J turn before Pateychuk led 76, into the 9 river. Boatman cut out calling chips, then cut out raising chips and tipped , into the middle.
He showed the A as he did so. Boatman, in return, showed a flash of surprise then raked in the pot. The Hendon Mob man is up to 1,, The flop came 4 2 Q which Heinzelmann bet at, , total, which was called, as was his bet on the J turn. On the 7 river card Heinzelmann pushed forward a million chips, winning the pot and showing 8 Q when Elder called. Elder: A 5 Heinzelmann: Q 5. Horrible dominated situation for Heinzelmann who failed to catch up on the 3 2 7 10 K board.
Unbelievably Heinzelmann becomes the second player this season to have come second in two EPTs. A fantastic final table. Neither players bet the Q 4 7 flop but Elder led , into the 6 turn. Elder pushed out , into the 6 river and Heinzelmann raised it up to 2,, Elder covered his mouth, deep in thought. Heinzelmann at the wrong end of the heads up to Elder.
After both players checked the flop Heinzelmann led , into the J J Q K turn which Elder raised to , in position. Heinzelmann came back over the top for 1,, and Elder made the call. On the 10 river Heinzelmann moved 3,, across the line and Elder slowly made the call.
On a 7 6 9 flop Heinzelmann c-bet , and was check-raised to , by Rupert Elder. Heinzelmann came back over the top for 1,, and Elder made the call to go to the A turn at which point all the money went in with Elder at risk. Elder: 6 6 for bottom set Heinzelmann: 10 8 for the nut straight.
Elder on 18,,, Heinzelmann on 11,, Max Heinzelman was so close to an EPT trophy. Elder passed to the final bullet. De Vivo plays on PokerStars as Checco. Seat 2. Lykov now has a huge bankroll and is one of the highest earning Russian tournament players of all time. Seat 3. Elder will be supported today by his good friend Andrew Teng, who was eliminated in 12th place yesterday, as well as former PCA finalist Ricky Fohrenbach.
Prior to Berlin, the year-old German was already a familiar figure on the EPT circuit, having played around 20 events. His Berlin success dwarfed his previous best live results which included min-cashes in main events as well as side event final tables.
Heinzelmann has been playing poker for around two years after a friend sent him a few dollars to deposit online. During her studies they played home games arranged by Liu, who continued to play after leaving college. Seat 6. Roberto Spada, 36, Ostia, Italy, 4,, This is the first major live tournament that Spada has contested, something that the man from Ostia, near Rome, says is a dream come true.
Now he plays mainly cash games and say he spends his winnings on his four kids. His family are coming to support him at the final. Seat 7. While not a professional player, Manigrasso says it is his dream to win an EPT. Seat 8. Costantino Russo, 27, Italy — 2,, Russo, from Naples, has been playing poker for the last five years, with good results, notably a final table at a tournament in Saint Vincent.
Francesco De Vivo opened for , and Lykov insta-shoved. De Vivo passed and Lykov is up to around 1,, Liu opened for , in the small blind which Spada called from the big for a flop of 10 9 4.
Liu then bet , which Spada raised to , The turn came 3 , the river K. Spada plunges down to , De Vivo moved all-in, Liu called. Tens for De Vivo and pocket fives for Liu. The board blanked out to move De Vivo up to 1,, That put Liu down to 1,, which all went in the very next hand from the big blind to a , open from Roberto Spada from under-the-gun.
Spada snap called. Liu: J J Spada: 10 Heinzelmann called for a flop of 4 Q Heinzelmann then checked to Spada who bet , Heinzelmann then raised to 2,, sending Spada into the tank.
No, not this time. He passes. A big pot for Heinzelmann, now up to 8,, Spada showed Q J to take it down. Elder passed and Liu picked up a small but important pot. Both Roberto Spada and Max Heinzelmann opened pots and swiped the blinds. Check out the profiles of all the players on the Final Table Player Profiles page. Be gentle with him. Seat 1. Francesco De Vivo, Italy — 1,, Seat 2. Rupert Elder, United Kingdom — 8,, Seat 4. Max Heinzelmann, Germany — 7,, Seat 5.
Xuan Liu, Canada — 1,, Seat 6. Roberto Spada, Italy, 4,, Seat 7. Massimiliano Manigrasso, Italy — 1,, Seat 8. Costantino Russo, Italy — 2,, Play is due to start, well, now. Delays are inevitable when you get TV crews or poker players involved. A total of players started this event, six days later just eight remain. Russo passed. Lykov was soon in action again, raising to , from middle position but finding no takers.
Both checked that for a 10 turn card. Russo checked to Elder to bet , which was again called. On the 9 river Russo kept up the checking, but folded to an Elder bet of , Spada: K 3 Lykov: A 9. The 10 4 7 J 8 board blanked out for both players and Spada is the first player to bust from this final table. Lykov has chipped up to 1,, When she called for a flop K Q 10 Elder bet ,, good enough to take the pot. After defending his big blind from a , Xuan Liu button raise Heinzelmann led , into the 4 5 8 flop.
Liu made the call. Heinzelmann led a smallish , into the 2 turn and was raised by Liu to , Heinzelmann came back over the top for 1,, and then shoved the A river for 2,, Liu sat for a short while mulling her options before passing. Heinzelmann up to 6,, Liu down to 8,, Elder still ahead on 14,, Join us in the new post then. Max Heinzelmann chipping back up.
Heinzelmann passed after Liu made it 1,, to play. All three checked again for a K river card before Elder took it down with a bet of , Then Liu came back over the top for 1,, and Elder pulled the trigger with a five-bet re-raise to 2,, Max Heinzelmann had opened the pot to , on the button before Xuan Liu three-bet , in the small blind before Max Lykov four-bet to , in the big blind, effectively committing himself.
Heinzelmann passed before Liu moved all-in. Lykov called. Lykov K K Liu 10 Max Lykov, just missed on the double. Lykov up to 3,,, Heinzelmann down to 2,, The next hand Heinzelmann managed to stop the rot after chipping up to 4,, after open shoving Q J from the cut-off. Liu insta-called with A K but the young German caught the turn of a 4 3 6 Q 7 board to double back up. No one player is super short stacked. This looks like the toughest final EPT four I can remember.
The flop came Q 6 9 and Liu bet another ,, which Heinzelmann called. Both checked the 2 turn for a 9 river and checked that all also. Liu won the hand with her K 7 good to take the pot, Heinzelmann showing 8 7. Liu had three-bet pre-flop from the button and had c-bet , into the A J 3 flop, which Heinzelmann had called in the cut-off.
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