Saturday’s €5,300 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte-Carlo Main Event ultimate desk had a little bit of controversy when allegations of angle capturing arose.
Jamil Wakil, a Canadian participant, busted in sixth place out of 1,195 entrants for €199,750. His run may have been even deeper had he not discovered himself in an unlucky state of affairs in opposition to Aleksandr Shevliakov, whose actions had been even questioned by the livestream commentators.
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Shevliakov, a Russian, entered the ultimate session second in chips behind Boris Angelov, who completed fifth for $2.5 million within the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Angelov busted in third place for €439,200 on Saturday. However he witnessed an attention-grabbing hand previous to his elimination.
That hand concerned Wakil, the under-the-gun participant with Q♦J♦, elevating it as much as 270,000 from the 120,000 huge blind. Motion folded to Shevliakov, seated within the small blind with A♥Ok♥. He paused for a second earlier than nonchalantly tossing in 360,000, extra chips than Wakil’s elevate however fewer than a authorized three-bet dimension.
The ground supervisor was known as over to rule on the state of affairs, and he or she decided Shevliakov was obligated to make his elevate to 420,000, the minimal elevate dimension required.
The massive blind folded, leaving Wakil with a tricky choice being unaware if his opponent was angle capturing with a monster hand or if Shevliakov did not catch the preliminary elevate and thought he was in a blind-versus-blind state of affairs. Wakil, the shorter stack with 3.6 million chips behind, had to decide on between shifting all in, calling, or much less doubtless, folding.
“Personally, I do not know precisely what I might do right here, as a result of when you assume you are up in opposition to 50-60 p.c, possibly as a lot as 80 p.c of the fingers, this turns into a very easy shove.” PokerStars ambassador Fintan Hand stated of Wakil’s state of affairs. “However, oh man, this is able to mess with my head. I do not know what I’d do.”
Parker Talbot, a co-commentator, stated “I’d simply name.”
Wakil, nevertheless, determined to maneuver all in, maybe assuming Shevliakov had a wider vary given he probably raised on the idea he solely had the large blind behind him. Shevliakov snap-called and the board ran out 10♣7♠3♣6♣Ok♠, sending Wakil, who had simply queen-high, residence in sixth place.
Wakil congratulated the ultimate 5 gamers on his means out, however earlier than leaving the function desk, he requested Angelov, “he did it in opposition to another person?” That was in reference to Shevliakov presumably angle capturing.
“Yeah, like twentieth folks,” suggesting Shevliakov had an identical prior incident.
Shevliakov denied angle capturing to Wakil.
“If he did not inform me you simply did it to another person, I imply,” Wakil responded, suspicious that an angle shot occured.
On the time of publishing, Shevliakov was heads-up for the title and €1,000,000 first place prize in opposition to Khossein Kokhestani. PokerNews is live reporting the motion, and PokerStars is dealing with the livestreaming duties.
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