Several players have jumped into the Main Event on the break including 2006 EPT London champion Victoria Coren Mitchell.
Several players have jumped into the Main Event on the break including 2006 EPT London champion Victoria Coren Mitchell.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
The tournament clock showed 138/147 players remaining and they are heading on their first 20-minute break of the day.
WSOP Main Event champ Espen Jorstad appears to be chip-leading early on and sits with a stack of around 90,000.
In a three-way pot on a board of ![]()
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, Ehsan Amiri and Paul Fontan Castrillon both checked from the blinds and Barny Boatman bet 2,800. Only Amiri called.
Amiri checked again on the
turn and Boatman bet 2,100. Amiri again called. Amiri checked a third time on the
river and Boatman fired a third barrel worth 6,500. Amiri quickly folded.
Blind on blind both Bo Alm and Paulina Loeliger checked a ![]()
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flop. Alm put out a delayed continuation-bet of 1,200 on the
turn and Loeliger called.
The river was the
and Alm checked. Loeliger shoved for 6,300 into a pot of around 3,000 and Alm called.
Loeliger showed ![]()
and played the board, with Alm's ![]()
making a flush and eliminating his opponent.
Paulina Loeliger opened to 400 from the hijack and Mario Adinolfi and Samuel Gillis both called from the blinds.
Adinolfi and Gillis checked in turn on the flop of ![]()
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and Loeliger continued for 300. Only Adinolfi called.
The turn brought the
and Adinolfi led out with a bet of 1,300. Loeliger laid it down.
Action was on a river of ![]()
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and Lukas Zaskodny had checked a pot of around 6,000 to Mario Adinolfi who bet 4,500.
Zaskodny tank-called with Adinolfi tabling ![]()
for king-high. Zaskodny showed ![]()
for a pair of fours and won the pot.
"Two and four," said Adinolfi. "That is a good hand!"
Espen Jorstad in a heads-up pot against button opponent Andrey Andreev with the board reading ![]()
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Jorstad led out with a bet of 1,100 and Andreev called. The river brought the
and Jorstad bet 8,000 with less than that in the pot, another river over from the 2022 WSOP Main Event champ.
Andreev quickly folded ![]()
for a flopped two pair that was counterfeited on the turn.
"Bad turn for you," Jorstad laughed. "Good turn for me."
Tom Middleton and another player checked the ![]()
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flop. Middleton's bet of 500 on the
turn was called and the river was the
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Middleton shoved for 1,900 and was quickly called. Middleton showed ![]()
for two pair, beating the ![]()
of his opponent to stay alive and double up.