FPC Main Event £300+£30 – This Saturday March 3rd 2pm. £100+£10 Super

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The players have gone for a quick chiprace break. Here are the chipcounts…

Seat 1 Leo Lim 92,000
Seat 2 Tim Maxwell 169,000
Seat 3 Grant Pirie 336,000
Seat 4 Ruslan Vlasov 714,000
Seat 5 Jen-Yue Chiang 282,000
Seat 6 Adrian Smith 431,000
Seat 7 Peter Vu 282,000
Seat 9 Rashid Elqmache 57,000

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Rashid Elqmache doubled through Ruslan Vlasov. He got his sub-50k stack in with against . The board brought no help. A few hands later in a battle of the blinds with the shortstacks Rashid gets it in against Leo and loses most of the chips he won…

Rashid
Leo

With both of the players having less than 6 big blinds and it being a heads-up pot everyone agrees it was a bit of a cooler. The board comes for Leo to hold.


Leo Lim

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Rashid recovers by again doubling up his shortstack. This time he has and Tim Maxwell makes a blind call for the 11,000 more from the Big Blind. It’s for Tim against for Rashid. The board pairs tens and the dealer almost splits the pot before Rashid points out there is a seven on the board too.

It’s a case of the usual suspects a few hands later when Leo and Rashid get it in again for another race…

Rashid
Leo
The has an ace but is is all spades – pretty good for Rashid…

The turn is a brick
But it’s “ooo” time when the comes on the river to give Rashid his set. He doubles up his 99,000 stack to over 200,000 and relative safety.

Rashid Elqmache

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After a long period of short stacks surviving Tim Maxwell has been eliminated in 8th place he was knocked out by Ruslan Vlasov and takes home £940 for his efforts.


Tim Maxwell

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Adrian Smith has taken the chiplead making a great call against chipleader Ruslan Vlasov with a pair of tens.


Adrian Smith

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With the players on a quick comfort break we can assess the lay of the land for you. When play resumes the blinds will be 12,000-24,000 with a 2,000 ante. With 7 players remaining the average stack is 337,500


Seat 1 Leo Lim 211,000
Seat 3 Grant Pirie 202,000
Seat 4 Ruslan Vlasov 504,000
Seat 5 Jen-Yue Chiang 227,000
Seat 6 Adrian Smith 822,000
Seat 7 Peter Vu 126,000
Seat 9 Rashid Elqmache 221,000

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First hand back after the break the two chipleaders go to war. It starts pretty innocently with a button raise to 56,000 on the button from Genting Poker Series Champion Ruslan Vlasov. Adrian Smith defends his big blind to the hilt and moves his 800,000 All-In. Ruslan thinks it’s Christmas and snap calls tabling his Aces.

Ruslan
Adrian
In the minds of the players the board runs in slow motion…
then the and the

Ruslan Vaslov doubles his 512,000 stack to hit over a million in chips and get back in a commanding chip lead.


Ruslan Vlasov - GPS Leg 1 Champion

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Leo Lim got is All-In pre-flop against Ruslan Vlasov.

Leo
Ruslan
It board is looking good on the turn…
But then the river comes to double pair the board and Leo doesn’t get his double up.

Leo Lim

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Peter Vu is our 7th Place finisher. He got his in against Jen-Yue Chiang’s

The board ran out


Peter Vu

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Elqmache Rashid is our 6th Place Finisher he got his last money in against Adrian Smith.

Adrian
Elqmache

The board came

Elqmache wins £1,500 for his sixth place finish.


Rashid Elqmache

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Leo Lim doesn’t believe his luck. In the last ten minutes he has made £1,800 as the table shortstack just by folding and watching as he laddered up the money list. He giggles and jokingly offers a deal – “I’ll take anything!” he smiles.

His luck runs out however a in the next hand, he gets it in bad with against

The board ran out to send Leo smiling to the Blackjack table with £3,070


Leo Lim

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The three remaining players take a long break to look at chipstacks. Evaluate equity and eventually not come to an agreement. Ruslan with over 60% of the chips in play doesn’t see the need to give away too much. He’s not worried about coming third and play continues.

The chipstacks

Adrian 471,000
Jen-Yue 445,000
Ruslan 1,447,000
The prizes £20,970 left to play for…
1st £10,370
2nd £6,470
3rd £4,130

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The outcome of the tournament was held in the balance. Adrian and Ruslan played another All-In pot almost immediately in three handed play. Just as in the decisive previous pot it was another All-In preflop race but this time a coinflip. Again Ruslan raised, Adrian pushed and Ruslan snap called.

Ruslan
Adrian
We hold our breath as the flop comes…
The turn is a breath-taking as Ruslan surges further into the lead.

Adrian calls for it, “I’ve been losing with Ace-King all day, surely I can’t lose four coinflips in a row”

The river card comes the and Adrian takes the chiplead from Ruslan


Adrian Smith

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A regular fixture in Fox Poker Club Main Events and indeed events around the capital Jen-Yue Chiang has fallen in third place. He shoved his button with and Adrian re-shoved the small blind. Ruslan wisely gets out of the way…

Jen-Yue
Adrian

The board was a freakish

We think one ace might have been enough. Quads just seems like showing off.

Jen-Yue Chiang wins £4,130 for his strong finish. We are sure we will see him back at the club for upcoming events.


Jen-Yue Chiang

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