The Table of Death
This $10,300 event is nothing to sneeze at and the caliber of players showing up isn’t either. But there are tough tables and then there are really tough tables. We don’t throw around this term lightly – ok, maybe we do however this time we’re for real – but Table 45 is definitely one we’ll keep an eye on as we’ve labeled it the table of death.
Two-time GPI player of the year Alex Foxen, one of the biggest online all-time money earners Chris Moorman, bracelet winners, and regular grinders of the high stakes all sit together. Here’s the line-up:
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Foxen | 1,900,000 |
650,000  |
| Roberto Romanello | 1,340,000 |
-310,000  |
| Jack Sinclair | 1,300,000 |
-60,000 |
| Chris Moorman | 1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
| Simon Deadman | 807,000 |
-368,000 |
| Tamer Kamel | 800,000 |
-200,000 |
| Dietrich Fast | 790,000 |
790,000 |
| Jeff Kimber | 400,000 |
-70,000 |
“Crazy, crazy crazy,” Says Duarte, Pre Busting
Nuno Duarte’s last hand started off four-way to a [4c6h7h] flop. Blinds Max Silver and Anthony Nicholls checked, and preflop raiser Nuno Duarte bet 25,000, called by button Andreas Wiborg and the blinds.
The turn: [7d]. Check to Duarte again, his 36,000 bet this time called solely by Wiborg.
The river: [8d]. Duarte checked to Wiborg, playing with his last two chips (both worth 100,000). Wiborg asked him to show his stack, then set him in.
“Crazy, crazy, crazy,” remarked Duarte, twiddling his final chips and looking for half a minute like he was about to toss them in, before finally doing so, showing down [Ah7c]. His trips weren’t good against Wiborg’s rivered top straight with [9hTh], however, and he hit the rail.
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Nuno Duarte | Busted |
-1,000,000 |
Papazian With the Ace-High Flush
When we arrived, a flop of [7cTc3h] was already on the table and big blind Alexandru Papazian bet 90,000. The player under the gun, Leon Louis, folded but Giuseppe Comitini Junior in the hijack called.
The [9c] hit the turn and both players checked. The [6c] completed the board making it four to a (straight-)flush. Papazian tanked for a fair bit, used a time extension card, and eventually decided on a bet of 160,000.
Comitini Junior called but mucked upon being shown [AdAc] by Papazian.
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandru Papazian | 2,000,000 |
200,000 |
Ruocco Maximises Flush Over Flush
A full double for Daniele Ruocco (whose stack had dropped a little in the first two levels) as the river of a [2hkh3sjhtd] board saw major betting. Ruocco checked to button Nuno Duarte, who bet just shy of 200,000. Ruocco check-raised all in for 520,000 and was quckly called.
Duarte: [Th9h] for a turned flush.
Ruocco: [Ah5h] for the turned nut version.
Duarte drops to 260,000 (still over 30bb) while Ruocco is newly flush with chips.
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Daniele Ruocco | 1,300,000 |
300,000 |
Early Leaderwatch
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Graham | 2,120,000 |
1,120,000 |
| Max Silver | 2,000,000 |
930,000 |
| Espen Uhlen Jorstad | 1,950,000 |
950,000 |
| Rachid Ben Cherif | 1,900,000 |
100,000 |
| Clement Richez | 1,730,000 |
730,000 |
| Benjamin Heath | 1,700,000 |
700,000 |
| Roberto Romanello | 1,650,000 |
180,000 |
| Daniel Rezaei | 1,280,000 |
280,000 |
| Alex Foxen | 1,250,000 |
480,000 |
| Simon Deadman | 1,175,000 |
215,000 |
| Rainer Kempe | 1,000,000 | - |
| Richard Trigg | 730,000 |
-270,000 |
| Jeff Kimber | 470,000 |
-530,000 |
Ben Cherif’s Small Bluff Fails
After winning a big pre-flop pot, Rachid Ben Cherif was right back at it with a raise to 14,000 from the cutoff. His neighbor Nuno Duarte on the button called, both blinds got out of the way.
Ben Cherif bet 15,000 on [Qh4d3s] and Duarte called right away. They both checked the [6d] on the turn before the [Ad] completed the board. Ben Cherif bet 40,000 and Duarte called instantly.
Ben Cherif showed [10h9s] while Duarte won the pot with [Ah10d].
Still, Ben Cherif is up to 1.8 million while Duarte has around starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Rachid Ben Cherif | 1,800,000 |
800,000
|
| Nuno Duarte | 1,000,000 | - |
More Level 2 Entrants
There are now 106 entries, Day 1b’s field swelling expectedly faster than Day 1a’s. Among them:
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Joao Vieira | 1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
| Marcel Luske | 1,000,000 | - |
| Espen Uhlen Jorstad | 1,000,000 | - |
| Jeff Kimber | 1,000,000 | - |
Martin-ez Game
Raul Martinez has been moved from his initial table (as has happened quite a lot – the constant flow of new entries prompts the removal of big blind players to form new tables regularly at the moment) but is continuing to increase his stack.
Leon Louis opened to 25,000, raised by neighbour Martinez to 45,000 preflop. Louis made the call to see a [jd8d3s] flop that they both checked.
The turn brought the [Kd] and a 125,000 lead from Louis, called by Martinez. The [8h] river paired the board, and both players opted to check.
Louis: [Adqh]
Martinez: [ackc]: Ahead from the start, the turned two pair was good for the pot.
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Raul Martinez | 1,360,000 |
270,000 |
| Leon Louis | 480,000 |
-520,000 |
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