Israeli Poker Tour

The local Tobias Sinding takes down the Championship.

He wins the extra 2.000€ from the deal and the trophy.

Congratulations to the Norwegian, who played very well throughout the tournament.

With only two Big Blinds left, Tobias put Roland all in, who called.

Tobias:

Roland:

The board ran out: and we have found our winner.

Roland wins 13.077€ after they made a deal 4-handed.

Comeback man Nissim finished in third.

In the previous hand Tobias Sinding won a crucial pot against Roland Norietis. On a board of the money went in and Roland was drawing dead with his against Tobias' .

Tobias doubled to 3.9M in this hand and left Roland with 2 Big Blinds.

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Yet it was not Roland, who finished in 3rd place but Nissim, who moved all in from the Button and got called by Tobias. Nissim's was up against and could not improve.

Eliran pushes his short stack from the Button and gets called by the Big Blind Roland Norietis.

Eliran:

Roland:

No help for Eliran on the board and he is our 4th place finisher.

Players have agreed on a deal according to chip counts.

We will continue playing for an extra 2.000€ and the trophy for the winner.

Blinds are up and the remaining 4 players come back to the table.

They are currently discussing a deal, as chips are very even and blinds are relatively high.

Francesco Elefante is our 5th place finisher.

He moved all in from the Small Blind for 345k and got called by chipleader Roland Norietis.

Francesco:

Roland:

The board ran out: and with the river straight Roland knocks out Francesco.

Konrad Abela just got knocked out.

He moved all in from the button with and the Big Blind Eliran Zipati called with .

Board ran out: and Konrad was eliminated in 6th place for 4.120€.

Remi moved all in from the Cut Off for his remaining 360k, Mr Comeback Nissim Saad moved all in over the top. Big Blind got out of the way and we had a showdown:

Remi:

Nissim:

Board came: and the long time chipleader Remi got eliminated in 7th place for 3.110€.

Nissim now has 940k, after being down before to just 15k.

Blinds are up again.

Tobias Sinding just doubled up to 1.3M, as his won the race against Eliran Zipati's .

The board ran:

The story of the final table must be Nissim Saad for now, as he managed a crazy comeback.

After getting crippled to just 3 Antes (!!) when he lost a preflop all in with against a little bit shorter Roland Norietis' , he went all in blind for his remaining 10k and got up to 65k, as he had . He doubled up again a few hands later when he won with against his opponent's , hitting a on the flop.

A short while later, he again doubled up when Remi Marloir put him all in with . Nissim had and once again he got lucky as the board ran: .

And that's not all, as he almost doubled up again when he knocked out Ville Jantunen, as previously posted.

Ville Jantunen moved his remaining 205k all in and Nissim Saad (who had a crazy comeback from just 3 Antes, more to follow), moved all in over the top.

Ville:

Nissim:

Ville needed to hit one of his two outs, but the board blanked out: and the Finnish player gets eliminated in 8th place for 2.550€.

Blinds are up and with an around 17 Big Blinds average we should loose some players rather quickly very soon.

2 levels played. 8 players remaining.

Blinds are up. 8 players remaining.

The first player has been elimanted and it is the Italian Christian Suma ,who started the final table in 4th.

In his last hand all the money went all in preflop and it was a cooler:

Christian Suma:

Eliran Zipati:

The board ran: and a cruel river knocked Christian out of the tournament.

Hello and welcome to the final day of the Israeli Poker Championship.

The Final Table is set and we are about to start it.

Here is the final table:

Seat 1: Remi Marlair          1.146.000

Seat 2: Eliran Zipati             513.000

Seat 3: Nissim Saad             250.000

Seat 4: Francesco Elefante   569.000

Seat 5: Roland Norietis         452.000

Seat 6: Konrad Abela           722.000

Seat 7: Tobias Sinding          721.000

Seat 8: Ville Jantunen           337.000

Seat 9: Christian Suma          621.000

We will play another 34 minutes of Level 22.

Good luck to all, shuffle up and deal!