Rainer Kempe has already doubled up his stack and Julian Stuer did so, too. In fact, the German said he cracked the pocket aces of Andrew Lichtenberger with and also doubled up the initial stack.
The player that had previously doubled through Alex Rocha is no longer in the tournament. It happened in a three-way pot with Panayotis Flourentzou when the latter opened to 550. He was raised to 1,500 and the player in the big blind flat-called, Florentzou did so too. On the flop , Florentzou raised the bet of the three-bettor from 2,500 to 5,500 and then called the jam on the turn with his set.
The opponent called the shove with for the nut flush, but another nine paired the board on the river.
The full action is unknown but a decent-sized pot emerged until the river of a board . Rory Young checked with around 4,000 chips behind and Federico Butteroni put him all in with the far superior stack. Young snap-called but the 2014 WSOP APAC bracelet winner had picked the wrong timing, as Butteroni flipped over for the nut flush.
Unable to beat that, Young tossed his cards into the muck and rushed out of the tournament area.
Sam Higgs defeated Mike "SirWatts" Watson to win the golden bracelet at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific A$ 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha and has registered for Flight 2. The table of the Australian also includes Geoffrey Mooney as well as Gerald Karlic, so expect some fireworks.
Raj Ramakrishnan opened to 450 and was called only by Rahul Rastogi in the big blind. Rastogi check-called a continuation bet worth 700 on the flop and did so again for 1,500 on the turn. The river completed the board and both players checked to see Rastogi flip over as winning hand.
While Rastogi is up to triple starting stack, the chips of Rupert Elder at the same table have vanished entirely.
Daniel Levy has late-registered not long ago and taken a seat at the table of Andrew Lichtenberger. Not far away from them is the table of Alex Rocha and the latter has tripled up his short stack, then called a raise to 450 while sitting on the button. Ferenc Riech also called in the big blind and the flop came .
The initial raiser in the cutoff fired a continuation bet worth 1,075 and Rocha as well as Riech folded.
Marc MacDonnell's Flight 2 came to a pretty early end after being coolered by table neighbor Louis Salter. Both had flopped two pair and turned a full house on a board of , but the of MacDonell were not good enough to beat Salter's . A few other notables and faces from yesterday have already done some work at the tables, too.
After his early double up, Fred Ranchhod has added another starting stack to his own to boost the stack further. The opponent that went broke against him before with top pair has since departed and the same table also features Jackie Glazier as well.
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and also doubled up the initial stack.
, Florentzou raised the bet of the three-bettor from 2,500 to 5,500 and then called the jam on the 
turn with his set.
for the nut flush, but another nine paired the board on the river.
. Rory Young checked with around 4,000 chips behind and Federico Butteroni put him all in with the far superior stack. Young snap-called but the 2014 WSOP APAC bracelet winner had picked the wrong timing, as Butteroni flipped over 
for the nut flush.
and did so again for 1,500 on the 
turn. The 
river completed the board and both players checked to see Rastogi flip over 
as winning hand.
, but the 
