Mohsin Charania and Nick Yunis have just clashed in the biggest pot of the tournament, so far, and the end result was a new chip leader!
Ben Vinson raised to 3,500 in first position, Mohsin Charania three-bet to 8,000 a few seats to his left, Nick Yunis four-bet to 18,000, Vinson stepped aside, Charania five-bet to 31,000 and Yunis had a decision to make. Charania had 189,000 behind and Yunis moved what looked like a little over 100k into the middle. Before you knew it all of the chips were in and we had a huge showdown.
Charania
Yunis
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Yunis had gifted 380,000 chips to Charania and had gone from hero to virtually zero, holding just 18,000 chips.
EPT Snowfest champion Vladimir Geshkenbein is out after a three-way pre flop all-in encounter.
There was a late position raise before Guillaume Darcourt shoved from the button and Geshkenbein re-shoved from the blinds. The original raiser called both all-ins with his , ahead of both opponents' hands and he also had them both covered.
Darcourt tabled and Geshkenbein opened .
The board ran out to make the Frenchman a set of fives for a triple up. The third player took the side pot as Geshkenbein was eliminated.
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From under the gun, John Andress raised to 3,500. Maria Ho made the call from the hijack seat and then Pedro Pellicer three-bet to 12,500 from the button. Everyone folded and Pellicer picked up the pot.
David "Doc" Sands is now over 300,000 in chips thanks to a nice little river card that gave him the winning hand against Jose Nadal.
We picked up the action on the board as Sands fired a bet of 9,400. Nadal made the call and the river card produced the . Sands bet 14,700 and Nadal snap-called. Sands tabled the for a rivered pair of queens and Nadal mucked his hand.
Sands is now up to 330,000 while Nadal was left with a face that said, "What the heck just happened to me?"