A Flavour of the Final Table
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A few players are sitting tight waiting for big hands. Others are testing each other out, probing for weakness they can exploit when the time is right.
Pete Linton raised to 200,000 and was 3-bet from the small blind by Jakub Michalak to 525,000. Alban Juen in the big blind let them get on with it and folded.
The flop was 
and both players checked to let a 
fall on the turn.
First to act, Michalak bet 425,000 and Linton called.
The Qc on the river completed the board and Michalak continued the aggression with a bet of 850,000.
Linton was seriously pondering the call. A few minutes went by as he went through all of Michalak’s possible holdings and motivation for betting that amount on that board.
“Do you want a call?” He asked Michalak.
“I don’t mind.” Michalak responded.
“How about a non-obvious answer?” Chuckled Linton and folded.
Next hand folded to Michalak on the button and he raised to 200,000. Alban Juen in the small blind raised to 500,000 which was enough to win the pot there and then.
It was Juen’s button next hand and he raised slightly larger than has been the norm on the table to 310,000. Gwendoline Janot folded the small blind.
Whether or not Xavier El Fassey, in the big blind, saw Juen’s unusual raise size as weakness or he himself had a big hand we’ll never know, but his raise to a cool 1,000,000 was enough to take down a pot of his own.
Only one more player to eliminate until we stop play for the day and return for the final day six handed final which will deliver to the winner €1,000,000.