Action folded around to John Juanda on the button and he raised to 2,800, which online star Rui Cao three-bet to 8,000 from the small blind. Not content, Dmitry Yurasov popped it to 17,000 from the big, Juanda folded, and Cao made the call to see a flop of .
Action went check-check, and then Cao led out for 19,000 on the turn. Yurasov thought for a long time before making the call, and then both players returned to checking on the river.
"You win," Cao said before flashing the . Yurasov then tabled the to win the pot.
As you can tell, all three of these players are up considerably since the last time we checked in on them.
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Ole Schemion knows how to win high rollers; in fact, he is a little more than a week removed from winning the EPT10 Sanremo €10,000 High Roller for €265,000. The German wunderkind already busted once today, but he's doing his best to make the most of his second bullet.
In a recent hand, a player opened with a raise and Anatoly Gurtovoy three-bet to 8,000 from the button. Schemion, who was receiving a massage, then four-bet to 19,100 from the big blind. The original raiser folded, Gurtovoy called, and it was heads-up action to the flop. Schemion checked, as did Gurtovoy, and the appeared on the turn.
This time Schemion decided to bet 17,000, and it did the trick as Gurtovoy released his hand.
It’s the last level of the night and Vicky Coren Mitchell likes her new table very much as she is currently going on a tear.
She had just won a hand from Talal Shakerchi where she had called a bet on a flop of , they had checked the turn card and when a river appeared Shakerchi open folded.
A few hands later Coren Mitchell called a raise from Hady El Asmar and they saw a flop of . El Asmar bet 5,000 and Coren Mitchell called. The turn card was the and when El Asmar bet 10,000 Coren Mitchell raised him to 28,000.
El Asmar called the raise and they went to the river card . A check from El Asmar saw Coren Mitchell bet 20,000. He made what looked like a reluctant call.
When Coren Mitchell turned over the and the dealer announced, “Full house.” El Asmar threw his cards away in frustration.
Tobias Reinkemeier was in the big blind and had called a bet from Dan Cates to see a flop of . He then check called a bet of 4,000 from Cates and when the turn card arrived a check from Reinkemeier saw Cates bet again for 6,000.
Reinkemeier now moved all in and Cates threw his hand away. Reinkemeier showed and Cates started talking.
“That’s pretty weird. I guess you got a five then.” Cates mused, and when asked what he had by Reinkemeier he answered, “I had a magic hand, a hand that would blow your mind.”
Cates will need some magic to survive as he is currently very short on chips.
As we neared table seven we saw Talal Shakerchi with 3,200 and in front of him. Smith had about 23,000 and in front of him. Shakerchi had apparently opened, and called the shove from Smith that followed.
The board didn't improve Shakerchi's hand, but it did Smith's while he didn't need it: . Smith is back up to around starting stack, Shakerchi drops to just under 200,000.
In the closing minute of the evening, David Peters got his stack of 68,400 all in preflop against Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen.
Guillen:
Peters:
It was a bad spot for Peters, and he was looking to catch an ace or some other combination of good cards. That didn't come to pass though as the board ran out a clean .
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turn. Yurasov thought for a long time before making the call, and then both players returned to checking on the 
river.
. Yurasov then tabled the 
to win the pot.
flop. Schemion checked, as did Gurtovoy, and the 
appeared on the turn.
, they had checked the turn card 
and when a river 
appeared Shakerchi open folded.
and when El Asmar bet 10,000 Coren Mitchell raised him to 28,000.
. A check from El Asmar saw Coren Mitchell bet 20,000. He made what looked like a reluctant call.
and the dealer announced, “Full house.” El Asmar threw his cards away in frustration.
. He then check called a bet of 4,000 from Cates and when the turn card 
and Cates started talking.
in front of him. Shakerchi had apparently opened, and called the shove from Smith that followed.
. Smith is back up to around starting stack, Shakerchi drops to just under 200,000.
all in before the flop against the 
didn't improve him enough and he made his way to the exit.
