High stakes cash game regular Mikita Badziakouski open shoved his last 120,000 or so from middle position. Mike Watson on the bubble reshoved and both blinds quickly folded.
Badziakouski was in trouble holding as Watson tabled . The board ran out and Badziakouski headed for the exit.
"How's things?" Haxton asked who just joined the table. "Better now" Watson replied while stacking his newly won chips.
Mark Teltscher opened the action with a raise to 20,000 and Talal Shakerchi right next to him made the call. Fabian Quoss in the big blind came along as well, and the three of them saw a flop of .
Both Quoss and initial raiser Teltscher checked to Shakerchi, and the Brit made a bet of 31,000. Quoss check-raised to 72,000 and Teltscher got out of the way. Shakerchi pondered for a bit, and announced all in. Quoss snap called, so no counts were done.
Talal Shakerchi:
Fabian Quoss:
The on the turn was a blank and while Shakerchi kindly asked the dealer for a ten, it wouldn't come: on the river.
A total of 54 players entered, and a total of 12 re-entries were made, making for 66 entries total. The total prize pool is €3,201,660, and 9 places will get paid.
Dani Stern raised it up to 23,000 from the cutoff and Jason Mo on the button three-bet all in for 115,000. Both blinds folded, and Stern asked how much it was. He was told it was 113,000 and called, but had to fork over 2,000 more to make it official.
"Would you have called if you had known it was more?" Mo asked with a smile. Right at that moment, the dealer dealt the flop and Stern with a smile answered he would have folded. The on the turn left Stern drawing dead, the on the river was just there for good measures.
Mo doubled to around 250,000, Stern dropped to around 165,000.
Dani Stern was all in for 166,000 with the against the for Tobias Reinkemeier. The flop, turn, and river ran out , and Stern doubled up to leave Reinkemeier with about 150,000 in chips.
Dan Colman (button) and Yingui Li (big blind) got their chips in the middle before the flop. Colman had the best hand with , but Li had a fair chance of busting his opponent with the he was holding.
The flop was good for Colman, but the on the turn left the door open for a suckout for Li. The on the river gave Colman trips though, and the Big One for One Drop champion doubled up.