Pablo Gordillo opened under the gun to 160,000 with . Anthony Ghamrawi on the button made the call holding . Marko Neumann in the small blind with seemed interested as well and squeezed to 600,000.
The big blind folded and action was back on Gordillo. He folded his king-nine and Ghamrawi was the only one Neumann had to get by. That didn't turn out to be too big a problem, Ghamrawi folded as well and Neumann took it down with the squeeze.
Marko Neumann raised to 165,000 under the gun with and Frei Dilling three-bet from the hijack to 380,000 with . The action folded back around to Neumann and he made the call after some hesitation.
The flop brought and Neumann checked right away to his Danish opponent who bet 240,000. Neumann casually grabbed the chips to make the call and put them across the line.
On the turn the hit and Neumann checked again, this time holding two pair. Dilling tanked for a bit and put together a bet of 860,000. Neumann put together the call again and the river brought the .
Neumann locked up the hand and checked again. Dilling stared at Neumann for a bit before he moved all in for 2,425,000 and the German pro went deep into the tank. Dilling's stack was counted down and eventually Neumann made the call.
Dilling was knocked out in a massive pot and Neumann grabbed a commanding chip lead!
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In hand 50 of the final table Anthony Ghamrawi opened to 165,000 under the gun with . Action folded to Pablo Gordillo on the button who called with . Oleksii Khoroshenin in the big blind called as well with and they were off three way to the flop.
Something for everyone but Gordillo. Khoroshenin checked and Ghamrawi bet 235,000. With top pair Khoroshenin made the call after Gordillo already had folded his pocket threes.
on the turn and with 1,075,000 in the pot, Khoroshenin checked again. Ghamrawi checked behind and both players checked the on the river as well.
The pot went to the big blind as he took over the chip lead.
Anthony Ghamrawi raised to 165,000 from the hijack with and Simeon Naydenov called from the button with . Pablo Gordillo called from the big blind with and he checked the flop.
Ghamrawi was next to act and he bet 225,000, which got Naydenov to fold right away. Gordillo called and on the turn the hit.
Gordillo checked again and now Ghamrawi checked behind. On the river the hit and Ghamrawi locked up the winning hand with ace-high. Gordillo grabbed chips and he bet 310,000 getting Ghamrawi to fold quickly.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season��s award will walk away with �50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
885.90 pts
2
Vanessa Selbst
762.05 pts
3
Thomas Muhloecker
640.55 pts
4
Georgios Karakousis
554.56 pts
5
Dominik Panka
547.34 pts
6
Ami Barer
544.84 pts
7
Jeff Rossiter
535.56 pts
8
Mike McDonald
535.23 pts
9
Adrian Mateos Diaz
527.44 pts
10
David Vamplew
492.14 pts
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
Pablo Gordillo opened to 125,000 holding . Simeon Naydenov made the call from the big blind with .
Naydenov check called Gordillo's 100,000 continuation bet, and the hit the turn. With 550,000 in the pot, Naydenov checked again. Gordillo, still holding the leading top pair, bet 195,000. Naydenov gave up and Gordillo took the last pot before the break.