2010 EPT Deauville
Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Shuffle up and deal...
Level: 32
Blinds: 100,000/200,000
Ante: 20,000
Teodor Caraba: 10,790,000
Jake Cody: 7,320,000
Mike McDonald: 4,430,000
The dealer spread out , and Cody checked. Caraba stacked out 200,000 and slid it forward, and the call came pretty quickly. Fourth street brought the and another Cody check, and Caraba wasn't stopping now. He made it 500,000 to go, and Cody obliged him with another call.
Now things get interesting. The river was the , and Cody checked for the third time, never yet showing any signs of aggression. Caraba pulled out a stack of red chips... then another... then another, and another, and then two more. He eventually had 2.24 million chips gathered in his hands, and he pushed them across the line as one final (and very substantial bet).
The move sent Cody spiraling into the think tank as he considered a decision for about 25% of his remaining stack. He asked how much his opponent had behind (about 4.4 million) before slowly pulling chips from his stack. He lined up the same amount and pump faked with them before leaning back and reconsidering for another minute or so. Finally, he made the call.
Caraba tabled , and Cody sunk into his chair, head down. He flicked his cards into the muck with one finger, unable to beat that and unhappy about sending more than 3 million chips over to his neighbor in the second largest pot of the tournament.
Mike McDonald, who has over $2.2 million in live tournament cashes, is 20. He was only 18 when he won his first EPT Main Event.
Fourth-place finisher Craig Bergeron is also 20. Canadian McDonald and Bergeron, an American, are able to play on the European circuit but are too young to play live tournaments in the U.S.
The flop brought out , and McDonald continued out with a bet of 420,000. That was enough to take the pot down, the first one he's won in quite some time.