After preflop raise we see the first barrel on the flop and Yordan Georgiev then fires 1,750 on the turn. Vincenzo Scarpitti makes the call from the button and then looks at his opponent with the Dr. Dre headphones on top of a hoodie after the Bulgarian made it 3,250 to go on the river. Ultimately the Italian called with and it was a split pot against .
Dragan Kostic opened the action with a raise to 400 from the under the gun plus two position. Two seats down Markku Koplimaa made it 1,075 from the hijack. The cutoff, button and both blinds folded and Kostic made the call.
Kostic checked to his Estonian opponent who fired out a 1,075 continuation bet. Kostic called rather quickly.
Both players checked the on the turn and the hit the river. Kostic checked again and Koplimaa bet out a hefty 3,525. Kostic thought about it for some time, but folded in the end.
The Frenchman won his seat through one of the live satellites at the Casino Sanremo and already doubled up his starting stack in the first two levels. He just slipped back to 52,000 though after paying off the of Matteo Taddia for 6,400 on a river. Unable to beat that, Guillemain mucked his cards ...
We didn't see the action until the turn, but there was already 8,000 chips in the middle. Marcin Kreft bet 3,500 and Dragan Kostic from Spain check-called before both checked the river. Kreft turned over and that was good enough to win the pot.
Carl Henrikss, a Swedish PokerStars player, was next to tangle with Vanessa Selbst. The flop was and Selbst, first to act, bet 500. She was raised to 1,000 by Henriksson in the cut-off and she made the call.
The turn card was the and again Selbst took the aggressive line with a bet of 2,600. Henriksson reached for chips and made it 6,300. After some thought and a Selbst stare for good measure she announced all in. A quick check of the exact count from Henriksson before his cards hit the muck.
Kitty Kuo returned to the table to be informed by Selbst, “I’m not gonna play small pots. I’m just going to play big pots.”