2019 888poker LIVE Festival London
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Derek Lawless opened to 600 in the cutoff and Neophytos Neophytou three-bet to 2,600 in the small blind, which Lawless called. On the ![]()
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flop, Neophytou continued for 3,600 and picked up a call before making it 8,000 to go on the
turn. Lawless gave it some thought and moved all in, Neophytou called.
Neophytos Neophytou: ![]()
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Derek Lawless: ![]()
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river was a blank and Neophytou doubled for 18,100, Lawless was left with just 2,500.
Lawless jammed the next hand and Elizabeth Wells called in the small blind.
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, Lawless came up second-best and headed to the registration desk.
The second time appeared not to be the charm for Albert Sapiano as word on the street is he lost a big pot with a straight against the full house with deuces of Ali Zihni on a three diamond board. He then lost the last 7,000 to Kelly Saxby and departed to the registration desk for the third entry of the day.
Also among the early casualties is Evgenii Shibaldin.
There are now up to 97 entries on Day 1d as the penultimate flight shapes up to be the biggest to date. New entries include Craig Smith, Jamie Munro, Catalin Dumitrascu and Andrew Macleod.
Luke Frankson was the third player to bust and re-entered shortly after to take the open seat vacated by the player that busted to Danh Cong Tran.
There are now up to 87 players registered with Albert Sapiano as the only casualty and re-entry thus far. Among others, Yimin Yang, Christopher Yong and Natalia Breviglieri give it another shot. Nicholas Lee, who final-tabled the High Roller and cashed in 3rd place, is also in the mix as well.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Neophytos Neophytou raised to 300 and was called by the button and Juan Bautista Martin Medina in the big blind. On a flop of ![]()
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, only the button called a continuation bet of 600 and Neophytou then fired a second barrel worth 1,500 on the
turn to force a fold.
Early big stack on the table is Lee Whiddett, while Derek Lawless lost some chips.
Sam Acheampong called a raise to 300 and Kanan Farzaliyev then three-bet to 1,300, which both opponents called. The ![]()
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flop was checked to Farzaliyev and he continued for 1,300, again both opponents called.
They checked the
turn and
river which saw the initial raiser turn over the ![]()
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to win the pot.