A high roller champ playing two tournaments directly; a player making noises paying homage to that scene from When Harry Met Sally; Kassouf's coconuts getting cracked; this present day had quite a lot of worthy anecdotes. But before we get to those, let's cover the real stuff.
A total of 556 players entered Day 1B of the IPT8 Malta Main Event, which when combined with yesterday's 219 entrants means we had a complete of 775 players making a total prize pool of €751,750. The entire runners took a shot at winning the last ever Italian Poker Tour title (before it gets re-branded under the PokerStars Festival banner), and there is a nice prize looking forward to the winner - €101,940. You'll find the entire prize pool structure here.
Johan Guilbert ended Day 1B on top
A total of 151 players will make the money, with a min-cash worth €1,500. But that will not happen until Day 2 tomorrow, so let's come again to today. All Day 1B players were striving to achieve the almost-300K summit climbed by yesterday's Day 1A chip leader Stefan Jedlica (299,100). Within the end, the nearest anyone got to that it was Johan Guilbert, who ended play with 294,000. Other big stacks within the bags belong to Dimitrios Avdoulos (263,500), Francesco Leotta (255,300), Cornelis Van Gent (252,000), Leonardo Armino (246,100), Nihat Karyagdi (233,800), and John Farrell (233,000).
No luck for Luca
There were numerous big names within the field, including Italy's Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano and Team Online Pro Giada Fang. Neither of them could survive until Day 2 though, joining the likes of Charlie Carrel, Steven van Zadelhoff, Sylvain Loosli, Martin Finger, Antoine Saout, and Benny Spindler at the rail. Oh, and can Kassouf - who provided some good table banter, but in any case was knocked out when his pocket aces - "the coconuts" - were cracked.
One good story came courtesy of Dietrich Fast. He was registered on this event despite also playing the general table of the €10K, which he ended up winning for €174,600 in advance of 8pm. He didn't exit and party though; he sat and grinded his 20K-ish stack for one more few hours, ultimately busting before play was over.
Fast and furious
Those so we can be back tomorrow include Ismael Bojang (178,000), Ole Schemion (101,000), Martin Staszko (97,700), Ben Heath (47,200), and Simon Trumper (28,300). The 171 Day 1B survivors will merge with the 52 Day 1A survivors on Day 2, which kicks off at noon local time. So until then, ciao!
P.S. If you wish to learn about the When Harry Met Sally thing, scroll right down to our 6:02pm post. --JS
11:05pm: The day is done
The bags are out, so we'll be back with a whole recap shortly. --JS
10:49pm: Clock paused - last five handsLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
There'll be five more hands of play before action stops and the chips get bagged. --JS
10:48pm: Tens over queens and jacksLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
"It's an unbelievable game."
So said probably the most players not focused on a large three-way all-in just now, eliciting several nods from others in response.
We arrived only on the end, when it was easy enough to peer that Samuele Moschetti with T♦T♥ had knocked out both Makram Saber with J♣J♦ and Victor Vasquez with Q♣Q♠.
Moschetti had the worst starting hand of the trio, however the 2♣A♣K♣T♠4♥ board had made him best. He has about 110,000 now because the field gets reduced by two. --MH
10:42pm: Schemion all the way down to dustLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
Ole Schemion has only a handful of giant blinds left after losing a pot against Maxi Lehmanski. The latter was all-in for 30,800 holding A♦K♦ and had Schemion's A♠Q♣ dominated. A 2♥5♥J♠9♣3♦ board kept Lehmanski ahead and he doubled up.
Schemion is all the way down to 13,000. --NW
10:35pm: Bojang amongst the massive stacksLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
Ismael Bojang is certainly one of poker's true all-rounders, as proficient at hold'em as he's at Triple Draw and other mixed games.
He's amongst the massive stacks here as Day 1B draws to a close, along with his stack of 190,000 about 2.5x the common. Antonino Intravaia (195,000), Johan Guilbert (160,000), and Abdelkader Benhalima (155,000) are also sitting well because the night nears its conclusion. --NW
10:25pm: Puglia goes down fightingLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
Oliver Hede opened for 4,500 and got a few callers in John Farrell and Francesco Leotta. It folded around to Giampaolo Puglia within the blinds who shoved all-in for roughly 30,000. That scattered everyone but Leotta who after some thought made the call.
Puglia had A♠J♦ and had to improve versus Leotta's 6♣6♦, however the 4♠3♠5♣9♥2♥ runout improved Leotta to a straight and ended Puglia's tournament.
Leotta has about 235,000 now. Meanwhile after the hand Farrell was inquiring about who the chip leader could be. He's still a bit of below 300,000, which makes us suspect he himself is the solution to his own question, no less than for now. --MH
10:20pm: Farrell flying highLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
What is it about Farrells and doing well in Malta?
Niall Farrell is the reigning EPT Malta Main Event champion and now John Farrell is the chip leader of the IPT Main Event here at the archipelago, and by far. He's as much as around 317,000 after stacking an opponent with K♥Q♥ against [Ax][Qx] on a Q♣K♦4♠6♦4♦. No clues as to when the money went in, I'm afraid, as I arrived as Farrell was being pushed the chips. --NW
10:12pm: Last levelLevel 12 - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
With the Day 1B field having shrunk to lower than 200 players, the last level of the night has begun. --MH
| 12 | 1000 | 2000 | 300 |
10:07pm: Farrell in firstLevel 11 - 800/1,600 (200 ante)
John Farrell of eire has surged sooner than the Day 1B field with a couple of minutes to head in Level 11. He's up around 280,000 now, well away from the chase pack hovering around 200,000. --MH
10:01pm: Huge pot for CammilleriLevel 11 - Blinds 800/1,600 (200 ante)
I joined the action to look a 2♣8♣3♣5♠ board at the felt and a pot of 24,400 within the middle. There has been of venture of 7,700 in front of Maxi Lehmanski, a decision of that bet in front of Robert Cowen and a shove of just over 31,000 in front of Gaetano Cammilleri.
Action was on Lehmanski and he folded to the grey-haired Italian's shove, but Cowen was not so quick to choose his action. He cut out the calling chips, dwelled for some time after which called.
Cammilleri showed A♣7♣ for the nuts and Cowen indicated that he was drawing dead. He (very) briefly showed what I BELIEVE was five-four after which turned his cards face down. He can afford that loss, though, as he still has 176,000. --NW
9:49pm: Three-way all-inLevel 11 - Blinds 800/1,600 (200 ante)
Action had folded to Ivan Gabrieli within the cutoff and he looked down on the A♣T♥. He decided to use some pressure to his opponents by moving all-in, knowing he had all of them covered, but unbeknownst to him there have been some big hands lurking within the shadows of the blinds.
The button player folded, and Iceland's Gudjon Oskarsson peeked on the A♦K♦ within the small blind. He called all-in, just for Umut Picakci to name all-in, too, from the large blind with the K♥K♣.
The 5♥9♦Q♥ flop was safe for Picakci's kings, while Oskarsson also was safe unless a 10 hit. The turn came the 7♦ and the river the 3♠, and that secured Picakci a treble-up. Meanwhile, Gabrieli still needed to repay Oskarsson. In any case he slid 25,200 to Picakci, 13,500 to Oskarsson, and was left with around 50,000. Picakci now has 76,000, and Oskarsson has 27,000. --JS
9:46pm: Ciao and bye-bye and f
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