Inside the Mind of Randy Lew
Randy Lew shares a hand analysis.
Randy Lew shares a hand analysis.
Thi Xoa Nguyen is making huge strides up the leader board right now, moving into the top ten with over 240,000.
Her latest drive up the counts came when Gerhard Mair bet 14,000 into a pot of around 50,000 on the river of a board.
Nguyen though about it for about 45 seconds before sliding in a raise to 32,400. Mair took even less time to fold, and hand her the substantial pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Thi Xoa Nguyen |
240,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
Gerhard Mair
|
50,000
-40,700
|
-40,700 |
Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes just got his last 50,000 in holding . His opponent Antonio Rutigliano had and a ton more chips.
Luckily for Lopes, the board came and Lopes doubled to around 100,000. Rutiglianostill has about 140,000 or so left.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Antonio Rutigliano |
140,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
Bruno Lopes |
100,000
16,100
|
16,100 |
|
Ole Schemion bought in on Day 2 of this event - while still being in a postponed heads-up battle with Fabian Quoss for the €50,000 Single Day High Roller title - and he ran up a big stack almost right away.
After picking up pocket aces, Schemion doubled and maxed out at 140,000, but it was all downhill from there.
Just now Patrice Chamarre raised to 3,500 and Andrei Boghean three-bet to 11,300 from the before the action folded to Schemion in the big blind. Schemion moved all in for 45,900 and Boghean snap-called after Chamarre folded.
Schemion:
Chamarre:
The board ran out and Schemion was knocked out.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrei Boghean |
270,000
235,800
|
235,800 |
Ole Schemion | Eliminé |
It was all over in a matter of a minute as Atanas Kavrakov got his stack of 40,000 chips in and table neighbor Marcin Chmielewski looked him up with the . Kavrakov's flipped but failed to hold up on a board of .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Marcin Chmielewski |
220,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Atanas Kavrakov | Eliminé |
Govert Metaal raised to 5,000 and picked up a call by Atanas Malinov in the big blind. On the flop both checked and Malinov then bet the turn for 9,000. Metaal called to see the river and Malinov now fired a bet worth 23,000.
After some consideration, Metaal called and the Bulgarian mucked his cards immediately.
On tables nearby, Adrian Allain, Jan Bendik and Paolo Compagno are all having very solid days while Thomas Miller lost his remaining chips with kings to ace-queen.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Govert Metaal |
375,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
Paolo Compagno |
265,000
94,500
|
94,500 |
Jan Bendik |
185,000
97,400
|
97,400 |
|
||
Adrien Allain |
170,000
106,700
|
106,700 |
Atanas Malinov |
85,000
73,200
|
73,200 |
Thomas Miller | Eliminé |
Michael Kamprath open-shoved his last 25,000 from the small blind with and picked an unfortunate timing as Peter Akery snap-called from one seat over with the . Kamprath was drawing dead after the turn of a board and Akery increased his stack.
Steven van Zadelhoff shortly after spiked trips sevens with and was paid off nicely by Faraz Jaka to get up to more than two times the average.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Steven van Zadelhoff | 280,000 | |
Peter Akery |
215,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Faraz Jaka |
50,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Michael Kamprath
|
Eliminé |
The action folded around to Matas Cimbolas in the small blind and he shoved for 38,000 with the . Big stack Albert Daher called with and improved on the flop and river of a board . Daher was stacking his chips somewhat awkwardly, but the table broke straight after and he put them in racks to get a better idea of his count.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Albert Daher |
370,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
Matas Cimbolas | Eliminé |
Portugal's Michel Dattani opened with a bet of 4,500 that both Patrik Antonius and Vanessa Selbst called.
Anthony Spinella then woke up with a raising hand in the small blind, making it 18,500. Dattani shipped it in for around 95,000 total, and after it folded back to Spinella, he made the call, showing the .
Dattani had two overs in the , and spiked one on the the flop, holding through the turn and river to double up to double the average, and leave Spinella wondering what could have been.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Michel Dattani |
220,000
164,700
|
164,700 |
|
||
Anthony Spinella |
60,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
From early position, Ivan Soshnikov raised to 5,000 and on the button Jonathan Abdellatif made the call. The big blind came along as well and the three got to work with. The big blind checked and Soshnikov continued for 6,700. Abdellatif, who went deep in the EPT Barcelona Main Event at the beginning of the season (30th for €32,125), made the call, the big blind folded.
The on the turn saw Soshnikov bet another 17,600. Abdellatif called again and the completed the board. Soshnikov now checked, and folded to Abdellatif's bet of 12,300.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Abdellatif |
140,000
29,400
|
29,400 |
Ivan Soshnikov |
69,000
-27,400
|
-27,400 |