Philipp Gruissem was the first player to move all in from early position. Sat next to him Olivier Busquet announced he too was all in. From the big blind Igor Kurganov was the third player to join the all in party. Cards were on their backs.
Gruissem:
Busquet:
Kurganov:
The cards ran out with the river card changing everything. Kurganov may have hit his king but Busquet who had seemingly had the worst of it going in grabbed the pot by making his flush on the river.
Fabian Quoss opened with a min raise under the gun and got called by Daniel Cates and Ping San Chan.
Chan was in the big blind and checked to Quoss on . The German player continued for 60,000 and Cates immediately folded. Chan wasn't doing the same, with just one opponent he announced all in to put maximum pressure on Quoss. Quoss had an easy call though.
Fabian Quoss:
Ping San Chan:
The on the turn was a blank and the on the river didn't help Chan either.
Ole Schemion is wielding his big stack like Conan with a broadsword on the outer table.
First he three-bet Richard Yong's 43,000 raise to 92,000 preflop. Yong made the call but instantly folded to a 93,000 bet on a flop.
The next hand saw Schemion raise to 43,000 from UTG. Yong and Igor Kurganov made the call but both check-folded to a 60,000 bet from Schemion after the flop.
Phil Ivey opened the button for 40,000 and Ping San Chan in the small blind three-bet to 110,000. Fabian Quoss folded his big blind and action was back on Ivey.
Ivey stacked his chips, and shoved the two towers over the line. Chan thought about it for some time, but eventually folded.
It folded round to Sorel Mizzi on the button and the red triangle was thrown in front of him as he declared all in. Daniel Colman was in the small blind and he glanced at big blind Philipp Gruissem before announcing that he too was all in. Gruissem folded saying, “I wanted to do that.”
Mizzi had and was racing for his tournament life against the of Colman.
The flop was giving Mizzi heart outs for his flush draw, but the turn and river bricked out to felt Mizzi.
The comeback attempt of Chun Lei Zhou has come to an end.
It happened when Zhou moved all in for 255,000 or so and Olivier Busquet moved all in over the top. The rest of the field folded and Zhou discovered the bad news.
Busquet:
Zhou:
Zhou was looking for a three, but it was not meant to be as the board ran out a dry .
On the very next hand, Busquet opened for 40,000 only to have Igor Kurganov three-bet to 100,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Busquet, and he opted to four-bet to 200,000. Kurganov responded by moving all in, and Busquet snap-folded.
Sorel Mizzi opened to 40,000 preflop from middle, Chun Lei Zhou moved all in for 100,000 in the small blind and Mizzi made a quick call.
Mizzi:
Zhou:
The flop came , Mizzi flopped top pair but Zhou had an overcard and the nut flush draw. The on the turn made Zhou's flush and Mizzi was drawing dead. A meaningless coming on the river. Zhou has over ten big blinds once more.
Olivier Busquet moved all in from UTG for 263,000. The action was passed around to Chun Lei Zhou in the big blind who squeezed one card - the . He then slowly squeezed the second which turned out to be the . Zhou made the call.
Busquet:
Zhou:
The flop came which gave Busquet some split pot opportunities, the on the turn gave him a flush draw as well and the river made him both two pair and a flush when the hit the board.
Busquet doubled back up over the half million mark while Zhou was left with just 100,000.
Lo Shing Fung limped in for 20,000 from under the gun plus one. Daniel Cates completed from the small blind and action was on Daniel Negreanu in the big blind. He shoved allin for 502,000.
Lo didn't fold so quickly and really thought about it. Negreanu made for some theatre but Lo wasn't impressed. Lo made the call, Cates folded quickly.
Lo Shing Fung:
Daniel Negreanu:
The on the flop was of no use to anyone, besides some back doors for Negreanu. The on the turn made an up and down for Negreanu but the last Team PokerStars Pro missed with the on the river.