Live Tournament Updates
Clark Climbs Back Up The Counts
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Chuck Clark finds himself sat with 44,800 chips after Ognjen Sekularac folded to his intense pressure on the flop.
Joining the hand on the said flop, which read 7
8
2, Clark lead out for 3,325 chips only to see Sekularac make it 8,000 to play. After counting how many chips were already in the middle, Clark moved all in, a bet that seemed to perplex Sekularac.
We will never know if Clark had the goods or not because his shove was enough to force Sekularac out of the pot. Nice hand.
07:34 PM, 07/18/11
Plan For Today
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
It has been announced that the players will be playing to the end of the current level before they are sent on a 15 minute break. When they return they will then play out Level 7, at whcih point the day will come to an end and everyone will head off to the WPT Party that the Grand Casino Portoroz is putting on completely free of charge.
Our camera man is going to be filming the party so keep an eye out for the highlights appearing on this very site.
07:12 PM, 07/18/11
Online Qualifiers Clash
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Over on Table 4 there are two PartyPoker qualifiers seated right next to each other, David Dyson and Kyle Wilson.
On a flop reading 95
J Wilson checked, Dyson bet 1,200 and Wilson called. Unfortunately that was were the betting finished as both players checked the 10 turn and although Dyson looked like he was about to bet the 2 river he did not pull th etrigger and checked behind Wilson.
Dyson: A
9
Wilson: Mucked
07:10 PM, 07/18/11
Sekularac Folds A Set of Queens?
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Play seems to once again slowed down but Ognjen Sekularac is trying to entertain his opponents over on Table 6.
Dominik Nitsche raised to 1,000 from middle position and Sekularac in the cutroff and Adrien Garrigues on the button both called. The dealer fanned out the 738 flop and it was greeted by three checks. The 4 turn saw Nitsche check, Sekularac bet 1,400, Garrigues call and Nitsche fold.
The river was the Q and Sekularac went back into checking mode but when Garrigues bet 2,500 he went into folding mode and tossed away his hand.
"I had a set of queens," Sekularac joked with his table. Quite the joker.
07:05 PM, 07/18/11
Table of Doom No More
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
Table 10 has just been broken so it is no longer being labelled as the Table of Doom.
The plan is to break the remainder of the tables in a decending order, so nine, then eight and so on and so forth.
06:59 PM, 07/18/11
Level Up
Level 6: 200-400, 50 ante
No we are not playing a World of Warcraft here in the media room, but the tournament has reached Level 6. Blinds are now 200/400/50a
06:45 PM, 07/18/11
Rubbing Zsolt Into The Wound
Level 5: 150-300, 25 ante
A four-way pot over on Table 1 resulted in Zsolt Pentek being paid off with a flopped full house.
Pentek limped under the gun, Alessandro Speranza limped behind on the button, Tony G completed in the small blind and David Nughes checked the big blind.
Flop: 444 - Tony G checked, Nughes followed suit but Pentek spoiled the party and made it 1,600 to play. Speranza made the call but both players in the blinds folded.
Turn: 6 - Both players checked the turn
River: 6 - The board now contained a full house and Pentek bet 2,200. After around a minute, Speranza called but mucked when shown 1010
06:40 PM, 07/18/11
Pianta Heads For The Exits
Level 5: 150-300, 25 ante
Alession Pianta has just been eliminated when his shove with ace-high was called by a better ace-high!
We joined the hand just as Desiderio Boncioli had three-bet to 1,800, Pianta had made it 4,200 to play and Boncioli called.
The flop came down 9104 and Boncioli check-called a 5,000 bet from his opponent. The turn brought the 5 into play and again Boncioli checked. Pianta quickly moved all in for his last 10,600 and Boncioli went into the tank.
He stayed full submerged for more than three minutes, counting out the required chips. He discovered that calling and losing would have left him with just 11,000 chips but this did not seem to worry him as he tossed the 10,600 into the middle of the table and made the call.
Pianta: AQ
Boncioli: AK
The river was the 5 and with that Pianta's tournament was over.
06:22 PM, 07/18/11
Karlic Grinding Out Chips
Level 5: 150-300, 25 ante
Over on Table 8 much of the focus has been on Toby Lewis due to his amazing results around Europe but believe it or not, there are other players seated around.
Two such players, Grzegorz Cichocki and Gerland Karlic have been weighing each other up over thepast few orbits (Karlic has just recently moed to this table) and Karlic seems to be getting the better of his opponent.
Cichocki raised to 600 from under the gun and the action folded to Karlic, who made it 1,400 to play from the cutoff. The button and blinds folded but Cichocki decided to call.
The 7Q4 flop was met with a check from Cichocki, a bet of 1,150 from Karlic and a fold from Cichocki.
06:13 PM, 07/18/11
An Unlucky Way To Bust For Scida
Level 5: 150-300, 25 ante
Antonio Scida busted out before the last level and our camera man managed to capture the action as it went down. What do you think? Bad beat?
05:48 PM, 07/18/11
