Senh Ung opened for 500 and Paul Newey three-bet him to 1,700. If Newey was trying to get it heads up it didn’t work as first Alexander Timokhin called, Timothy Adams called and when the blind folded, original raiser Ung put in the extra to see a four way flop.
was spread on the felt and it checked to the player with position, Adams, who bet 4,200 and one by one the other players released their cards.
We missed the pre flop action, but believe it was a three-bet pot. Post flop things weren't getting too interesting as both Fabian Quoss in the small blind and Johannes Strassmann on the button checked it all the way through on .
With the board displaying a flush, Quoss tabled his . Johannes Strassmann threw his hand in the muck, and quickly after realized that it would have been a split pot. He reached for his cards, but it was too little too late. His cards would stay in the muck and the pot went to Quoss.
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn opened for 600 in the cutoff and Dmitry Yurasov three-bet him to 2,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Kampanatsanyakorn four bet to 4,500. Yurasov made the call.
The flop was and both players checked to see a turn card . A 5,800 bet from Yurasov was called by Kampanatsanyakorn and the went to the river where a completed the board.
Yurasov collected some of each denomination of chips and put out his bet. Kampanatsanyakorn asked the bet to be clarified and found it was a hefty 9,300. He mused for a while and said to himself, “You raised ne preflop.” He then tried the fake pump call but there was no reaction from Yurasov.
Eventually he did make the call and mucked when Yurasov turned over for the turned straight.
Michael Bahig Youssef opened for 425 and Philipp Gruissem in the big blind raised him to 1,500. Youssef four-bet him to 2,900. “You won the satty right?” asked Gruissem, but Youssef confirmed nothing.
Gruissem made the call and they saw a flop of . Gruissem checked as did Youssef. They saw a turn card and Youssef bet 3,200 when it was checked to him. Gruissem sighed and said. “I fold.” Turning over his . “Nice bluff.”
There are 83 runners in the tournament at the moment. Last year there were a total of 158 runners and Steven Silverman came out on top. He's not in the tournament here today, because he's still in the Main Event.
Adrian Mateos Diaz opened the button for 500 and Niall Farrell called from the small blind. Mohsin Charania in the big blind squeezed to 2,100 and just Diaz made the call.
Charania followed up his pre flop aggression with a 1,800 continuation bet on . Diaz wasted no time calling, and called the 3,900 second barrel on the turn as well. The fell on the river and both players checked.
"King high" said Charania, showing . Diaz tabled for the winner.
Play will be eight handed in the high roller but action begins when there are at least three people at the table. One of those tables where action is underway sees Team Poker Stars Pro Eugene Katchalov, Scott Seiver and Vitaly Lunkin play short-handed.
Seiver opened an early pot and big blind Lunkin was the one to call him to see a flop of . Lunkin checked and Seiver bet 1,100. Lunkin check-raised him to 2,500 and Seiver made the call.
The turn card was the . Again Lunkin checked but Seiver continued the betting for 4,200. This time Lunkin just called.
A river card saw Lunkin check once more but this time he folded to bet of 10,000 from Seiver.
Today’s High Roller field includes 13 players who nabbed their seats in last night’s €2,800 Super Satellite: Sam Chartier, Dori Yacoub, Sam Greenwood, Oleksii Kovalchuk, Nicolas Chouity, Zhapar Sultanov, Erwann Pecheux, Uladzimir Zaharau, Hady El Asmar, Noah Schwartz, Artem Metalidi, Jonathan Karamalikis and Dinesh Alt. There were 108 runners in the qualifier.