Joli vainqueur pour ce High Roller à 10300€ du dernier EPT Barcelona de l'histoire. Connor Drinan s'impose après 13 heures 30 de jeu lors du Jour 3 d'un tournoi qui a cumulé 591 entrées. L'Américain encaisse un gain de 849 200€ .
Ils étaient 36 à revenir pour l'ultime journée, menés par Julian Stuer. Benjamin Pollak signe la meilleure performance française en terminant 29e pour un chèque de 27 800€. Davidi Kitai s'incline lui en 16e position sur un flip au Casino Barcelona. Le Belge repart avec un peu moins de 50000€. Georgios Zisimopoulos (35e), le vainqueur EPT London Robin Ylitalo (33e), Mike McDonald (30e) et Ivan Luca (2èe) ont tenu moins longtemps que le Belge du Team Winamax.
Natasha Barbour et Aaron Lim n'nont pas vu les demi-finales alors qu'Anthony Zinno tombe à l'approche de la TF, 13e. Patrick Leonard en profitait pour prendre la tête avec des joueurs rattrapés par la structure. 9e l'an passé Jansson lui donnait encore quelques jetons en tombant à la 10e place.
Leonard va ensuite passer de hero à zéro en deux mains : la première perdue contre Leranen, la seconde en s'empalant sur les de Morozovs. Le letton trouvait le carré pour sortir le Britannique en 7e place !
Joseph Cheong saute derrière, éliminé par Connor Drinan. L'Américain va ensuite faire top deux paires au flop avec contre le vainqueur de l'EPT Vienne, Oleksii Khoroshenin. L'Ukrainien va payer le check-raise avant de payer n deuxième barrel turn. Mis à tapis sur une rivière anodine pour un pot gigantesque, Khoroshenin va payer avec pour dégager la voie du succès à son bourreau. Il encaisse tout de même 396,700€.
Dernier du classement, Keranen saute sur la main suivante contre Morozovs qui trouve encore les mais ne fait cette fois que brelan. Les deux derniers rescapés, presque à égalité, vont jouer une heure avant qu'un pot limpé ne fasse la décision.
Avec sur un flop contre chez Morozovs, Drinan trouve la configuration finale d'une dernière table ou il aura dominé. Le joueur US signe le deuxième gain de sa carrière et dépasse désormais les 10 millions de gains...
Mihails Morozovs limped in and Connor Drinan checked, which resulted in the flop of . Drinan checked, Morozovs bet 700,000, Drinan check-raised to 1,700,000 and Morozovs then moved all in for less than 14,000,000. Drinan called and the cards were turned over.
Morozovs:
Drinan:
The Russian rail came right behind Morozovs and rooted for a jack, but the turn and river were both blanks. Morozovs was eliminated in second place and takes home €616,840 for his efforts. Drinan will be lifting the trophy shortly and is rewarded with €849,200.
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In the first hand back from their quick break, Mihails Morozovs raised to 600,000 from the button. Kyle Keranen gave it some thought and then moved all in for 2,825,000 out of the small blind. Connor Drinan folded and Morozovs snap-called.
Keranen:
Morozovs:
The board ran out and the flush draw of Keranen didn't complete, sending him to the rail in 3rd place for a payday of €496,440.
On a flop of Connor Drinan check-raised a bet of 300,000 from Oleksii Khoroshenin to 1,000,000 and Khoroshenin called.
The turn was the and Drinan bet 1,100,000 and Khoroshenin called again.
The river was the and Drinan moved all in. He covered his opponent and Khoroshenin went deep into the tank.
He checked his stack and eyed Kyle Keranen's shortstack at the far end of the table. In the end, after over seven minutes in the tank Khoroshenin called.
Connor Drinan turned over and Khoroshenin was forced to turn over .
Khoroshenin was elmiinated in 4th place securing himself €396,700
After the Ukrainian headed away from the table Connor Drinan leant over to his tablemates.
"You're welcome guys..." he said, stacking his chips.
The action folded around to Connor Drinan in the small blind and he shoved for more than three million. Ari Engel peeked at his cards and quickly called out of the big blind with an almost identical stack.
Engel:
Drinan:
The board ran out and Drinan improved to a pair of nines. The stacks were counted and Engel was covered, though not by much, and was eliminated in fifth place for €307,900.
It folded to Joseph Cheong in the small blind who moved all in. Connor Drinan had a quick glance at both players' stack sizes.
"I am going to call," he said, slowly placing his chips over the line.
"Don't do that," says Cheong turning over as Drinan showed .
The board ran out and after a quick double check of the stack sizes, it showed that Drinan had Cheong covered by less that one big blind, and Cheong was eliminated.
Patrick Leonard raised to 350,000 and was four-bet by Mihails Morozovs to 1,100,000. Leonard thought for a minute before moving all in and his opponent's chips almost beat his into the pot.
Leonard showed but was up against Morozovs's .
The flop was with numerous backdoors to help Leonard's cause. The turn was the which opened up both his straight and flush draws, along with his initial two queen outs. However the river was another giving Morozovos quads and eliminating Leonard.
Pascal Hartmann moved all in for just over 1,000,000 in chips and it folded to Patrick Leonard in the big blind who snap-called and turned over . Hartmann winced as he showed .
There was no help for the last German in the field as the baord ran out , with Leonard's kings holding to boost his stack to just over 5,000,000.
Ari Engel got through with a three-bet all in, forcing out initial raiser Connor Drinan and then it was Ilkin Amirov who moved all in from under the gun. The action folded to Kyle Keranen in the small blind and he asked for a count. The shove of the Azerbaijani was for 1,970,000 and Keranen also asked Oleksii Khoroshenin in the big blind for his stack. "About 1.3," the latter replied.
Keranen then moved all in and Khoroshenin folded.
Amirov:
Keranen:
The flop changed nothing, but Keranen picked up an additional flush draw with the turn. It was the river that improved him to a pair of aces and Amirov was sent to the rail in 9th place for a payday of €95,720.
Patrick Leonard raised to 225,000 and Olov Jansson called in the big blind. On the flop, Jansson checked and Leonard bet 300,000. Jansson spent quite some time in the think tank and the clock was called on him.
After 30 seconds on his one minute countdown, Jansson moved all in for around 1,050,000 and Leonard quickly called.
Jansson:
Leonard:
The turn changed nothing whatsoever, but the river gave Leonard a flush and eliminated Jansson in 10th place. One year ago, the Swede came 9th in this very event. The remaining nine players will now redraw to the unofficial nine-handed final table.