Michael Eiler just hates the sight of that lonely Ace dropping on the board. Yesterday he set a successful trap for Luca Cainelli when he limped into the blind with pocket queens and Luca Cainelli shoved with from the Big Blind. That time Luca hit his Ace to double up through Eiler.
Today it is Matthias Lotze's turn. Eiler opened to 150,000 and Lotze announced he was all-in and Eiler quickly called.
Andreas Wiese raised from the hijack position to 155,00 and the very active Konstantinos Nanos three-bet from the button making it 450,000 to play and Wiese folded. In the next hand Team Pokerstars Pro Martin Hruby pushed all-in for his remaining 475,000 but everyone folded to the Czech star.
In dire straits now, Martin Hruby found a fold round to him on the small blind, and finally committed his 400k stack preflop with just Nanos behind him. The bigger stack grimaced slightly, but laid his hand down, giving a much-needed big blind to the table short stack.
Andreas Wiese threebet Konstantinos Nanos preflop, making it 450k over his initial 150k. The EPT live commentary pointed out that Nanos was opening a very large number of hands and Wiese, with a decent stack now, could be doing this with a variety of hands himself... but he gave everyone a peek at his when Nanos passed.
Two of the shorter stacks just clashed in the blinds and Andreas Wiese came out on top in this interesting encounter.
Matthias Lotze opened from the Small Blind to 150,000. Wiese, who was in the Big Blind, asked Lotze how much he had behind. Lotze was in the midst of counting when Wise announced "call." The flop was and Lotze made a continuation bet of 155,000 and Wiese called. The turn was the and Lotze slowed down with a tap on the table. Wiese decided to take the initiative and bet 490,000 and as usual at this stage of the tournament for the short stack it was an all or nothing decision for Lotze. Lotze decided to give the hand up and Wiese adds some much needed chips to his short stack.
Curiousness as Matthias Lotze, still very short, did not go all in this time but merely min-raised. He got a few suspicious looks around the table, but only one call - from Luca Cainelli in the big blind.
However, we never got to find out what Lotze could possibly be min-raising with there, as Cainelli checked the flop and then folded to a 150,000 bet. Lotze's expression told us nothing as he raked in the small pot to put him at 1.13 million. The only stack shorter right now is that of Martin Hruby - the Czech Team Pro hasn't played a hand yet, and is down to just 485,000.
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from the Big Blind. That time Luca hit his Ace to double up through Eiler.
so far so good for Eiler.
Lotze takes the lead
Lotze doubles up.
and Lotze made a continuation bet of 155,000 and Wiese called. The turn was the 
and Lotze slowed down with a tap on the table. Wiese decided to take the initiative and bet 490,000 and as usual at this stage of the tournament for the short stack it was an all or nothing decision for Lotze. Lotze decided to give the hand up and Wiese adds some much needed chips to his short stack.
flop and then folded to a 150,000 bet. Lotze's expression told us nothing as he raked in the small pot to put him at 1.13 million. The only stack shorter right now is that of Martin Hruby - the Czech Team Pro hasn't played a hand yet, and is down to just 485,000.