Justin Bonomo was down since the last time we checked up on him, but he just doubled when he hit the perfect flop.
Bonomo opened under the gun for 1,300 and right next to him it was Andrey Andreev who made it 4,000. Action folded to Bonomo who made the call.
on the flop and Bonomo checked to Andreev who bet 15,000 to put Bonomo allin. Bonomo snap called with the flopped nuts; for his remaining 14,150. "Oh wow" said Bonomo after Andreev tabled , showing he had more outs than Bonomo might have expected.
The on the turn and on the river didn't pair the board though, and Bonomo doubled with his flopped flush.
In contrast to the €100,000 Super High Roller, this €25,000 High Roller is a single reentry tournament. Where players were able to fire as many €100,000 bullets as they liked in the Super High Roller, here players are only allowed to reenter once.
The following players have already reentered the tournament:
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Martin Finger bet 21,500 on the turn of a board reading and Tobias Reinkemeier moved all in over the top for about 50,000. Finger looked a little puzzled and made the call with . Reinkemeier tabled his and had one more card to hit his up and down straight draw or he was out.
The river was the and Reinkemeier was felted.
Michael Telker was sat between them and plainly impressed. “Pretty cool. You don’t see that every day.”
Scott Seiver opened under the gun and just Vitaly Lunkin in the big blind made the call. Lunkin check-called 2,000 on , 5,300 on the -turn and 13,000 on the -river. Seiver showed and Lunkin mucked. Right after that hand, Seiver was moved to a different table, so Lunkin will have to win his chips back from someone else.
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Dan Smith was already counting out his entire stack by the time we saw the action. He was counting out his 28,300 stack because his neighbor Ray Tabei would need to match that.
The board read Smith had in front of him for top set. Smith, seated in the small blind, got his chips from Tabei on the button who had laying open in front of him.
Tabei still has about 40,000 left, Smith is up to almost 60,000.
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on the flop and Bonomo checked to Andreev who bet 15,000 to put Bonomo allin. Bonomo snap called with the flopped nuts; 
for his remaining 14,150. "Oh wow" said Bonomo after Andreev tabled 
, showing he had more outs than Bonomo might have expected.
on the turn and 
on the river didn't pair the board though, and Bonomo doubled with his flopped flush.
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and Tobias Reinkemeier moved all in over the top for about 50,000. Finger looked a little puzzled and made the call with 
. Reinkemeier tabled his 
and had one more card to hit his up and down straight draw or he was out.
and Reinkemeier was felted.
, 5,300 on the 
-turn and 13,000 on the 
-river. Seiver showed 
and Lunkin mucked. Right after that hand, Seiver was moved to a different table, so Lunkin will have to win his chips back from someone else.
Smith had 
laying open in front of him.
