2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo
James Crawley-Boevey raised to 1,100 from under the gun and Kamel Atoui called from the small blind before Ikam Benyeffou came along from the big blind. The flop was ![]()
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Atoui and Benyeffou checked before Crawley-Boevey bet 2,800. Atoui raised to 5,700 and Bennyeffou got out of the way while Crawley-Boevey tossed in the chips to call.
The turn was
and Atoui jammed his last 13,000. Crawley-Boevey tossed his cards in the muck to give Atoui the pot.
With 6,600 in the middle to the ![]()
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river, Byron Kaverman checked in the cutoff and Lukas Zaskodny then bet 6,400 on the button. The check-shove by Kaverman for around 14,000 followed and Zaskodny eyeballed the stack of his opponent before eventually giving up.
Hossein Madani opened to 1,000 on the button and then called the three-bet to 3,700 by Dinesh Alt in the small blind. As the flop fell ![]()
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, Alt continued for 2,500 and Madani pondered about his next move for a while to then raise to 7,500, earning a call from Alt.
The
turn was check-called by Alt for 7,000 and he then did so again for 7,800 on the
river. Madani exposed the ![]()
for a bluff gone wrong and Alt raked in the seizable pot with the ![]()
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Table one has received a major face lift as Emil Bise and Thi Xoa Nguyen were previously eliminated. Christopher Frank arrived as a new entry and lost a bigger portion of his stack.
Patrick Faraut and Frank then limped and Julien Sitbon raised to 3,000. Faraut pushed for 16,300 and Frank folded while Sitbon called.
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The flip went to Faraut thanks to a board of ![]()
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and he banged his hand on the table in excitement.
Runaway chip leader on the table remains Tsugunari Toma, who has nearly five times the starting stack.
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flop, Gianluca Speranza bet 3,500 in the small blind and Kamel Atoui called in the hijack. "Please don't cover your stack," Speranza told his opponent who moved forward his chips for the Italian to see.
Speranza led the
turn for 7,500 and earned a call to then push the
river with the covering stack. Atoui mulled it over for a bit and elected to fold.
Johannes Toebbe in the small blind and Leo Margets in the hijack created a pot of 21,600 to the ![]()
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river on which Toebbe opted to check. Margets bet 27,000 with the far superior stack and Toebbe only gave it brief consideration before he folded.
After conceding the pot, the German dropped below one third of the starting stack while Margets jumped to more than two times of what she started with.
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, Espen Jorstad bet 14,200 and received a reluctant call by Ramiro Petrone from one seat over. Jorstad tabled the ![]()
for aces and tens but Petrone had that beat with the ![]()
for aces and jacks.
With some 19,000 in the middle and the board showing ![]()
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, Masashi Oya bet 5,400 with 5,000 behind. Mikhail Nikolaev reluctantly called and Oya tabled the ![]()
to which Nikolaev mucked his cards.
However, the cards had not hit the muck yet as Nikolaev pulled em back to reveal the ![]()
. The floor was called and since the cards could still be retrieved and identified, the hand ended in a split pot.