Maria Ho opened for 2,000 from the cutoff only to have Poland's Mikolaj Zawadzki three-bet to 5,700 from the small blind. Ho thought for a bit before just calling, which brought about a flop. Zawadzki continued for 4,200, Ho called, and the dealer burned and turned the .
Zawadzki slowed down with a check, which opened the door for Ho to move all in for 21,600. Zawadzki immediately began to fidget in his chair, and then hit the tank for nearly three minutes before releasing his hand.
We missed the elimination of Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody, but we were informed of some details after the fact.
According to Jennifer Shahade, the British Triple Crown winner defended from the big blind with after Dan Smith opened with a raise.
The flop saw Cody check-call a small bet from Smith, and then check-call a similarly small one on the turn. When a completed the board on the river, the chips went in and Cody discovered Smith had rivered Broadway with .
Erik Scheidt raised from under the gun and then called the shove of Lee Markholt for 13 big blinds with . Markholt was way ahead with but the board ran out to give Scheidt a winning flush.
Byron Kaverman started out as the second smallest stack today, but by now he's already got a bigger stack than a lot of players in the field.
We just witnessed him bet 1,800 on a flop of from the hijack in what we assume was a pot he opened. Alen Bilic in the big blind check raised to 3,400, and was later forced to make it 3,600. Kaverman called. The came on the turn and Bilic and Kaverman both checked. The completed the board and Bilic bet 3,300. Kaverman tanked for a bit before calling. Bilic showed for not much of anything, Kaverman took it down with for ace-high.
Eoghan O'Dea opened to 1,700 and was called by Andrey Kotelnikov, Kiryl Radzivonau also called out of the big blind. After a flop of , Radzivonau check-raised all in for 11,000 and O'Dea called before Kotelnikov moved all in over the top. O'Dea made the call with but Kotelnikov had that dominated with while Radzivonau held the for top pair only.
Both turn and river bricked and that was it for Radzivonau.
With around 4,500 in the pot, Christoph Vogelsang and Carlo Citrone clashed on the flop , resulting in the all in of Vogelsang for his last 20,100. Citrone put him at risk with the for the flush draw and the German went into showdown with for two pair.
Both the turn and river blanked and the players evened their stack sizes.
Short stack Andrew Chen has been eliminated. His former table mate Bryn Kenney told us he pushed all in from under the gun plus one with pocket fives, and ran into pocket eights. Chen started out with just 4,900 and a dream, but both are gone now.
Byron Kaverman was a bit luckier. He got his stack in before the flop with and was called in two spots, a player with and his neighbor with . The board ran out and with the rivered flush Kaverman tripled.
We have confirmation at least two more players signed up for the Main Event before registration closed. There might be more, but at least the following two players are in the tournament right now:
While the live version of PokerStars' popular Spin & Go tournament made their debut here at the EPT12 Malta — yesterday saw the first €1,000 prize hit — the online version has been crowning millionaires. Most recently, Germany's "handbt1" became the fifth instant Spin & Go millionaire this week.
In the first year of Spin & Go’s at PokerStars, just five new millionaires were made, and in the last week alone there have been five more.
According to PokerStars officials, the $5 buy-in Spin & Go tournament (Tournament #1,360,472,695) started at 12.35 a.m. German Local Time on October 26 (7.34 p.m. US Eastern Time, 11.43 p.m. GMT on October 25) and concluded at 12.48 a.m., creating yet another poker millionaire from thirteen minutes of poker play.
The runner up was "egg1981" from the Channel Island of Guernsey, who won $100,000, while the third-place finisher was Ukraine's "Lyuda1975," who also won $100,000. The tournament was over in just 55 hands, with "handbt1" leading for the majority of the tournament. He won the match with the all in preflop against the of "egg1981." The flop paired "handbt1," and he held as the turn and river came respectively.
In addition to this tournament, there has been an unprecedented spate of instant millionaires made on Spin & Go tournaments this week:
On 26 October, ‘barrakuuda4’ from Estonia became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
On 25 October, ’prophethicks’ from England became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.
On 22 October, ‘wrawras’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
On 21 October, ‘Samara Lúcio’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.
Spin & Go's are fast-paced, 3-Max Hyper Turbo tournaments which feature 500 chip starting stacks. Each tournament has a randomly drawn prize pool that will award between two and 3,000 times your buy-in. PokerStars offer Spin & Go's at nine different buy-in levels: $0.50, $1, $3, $5, $7, $15, $30, $60 and $100.
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flop. Zawadzki continued for 4,200, Ho called, and the dealer burned and turned the 
.
after Dan Smith opened with a raise. 
flop saw Cody check-call a small bet from Smith, and then check-call a similarly small one on the 
completed the board on the river, the chips went in and Cody discovered Smith had rivered Broadway with 
.
. Markholt was way ahead with 
to give Scheidt a winning flush.
from the hijack in what we assume was a pot he opened. Alen Bilic in the big blind check raised to 3,400, and was later forced to make it 3,600. Kaverman called. The 
came on the turn and Bilic and Kaverman both checked. The 
completed the board and Bilic bet 3,300. Kaverman tanked for a bit before calling. Bilic showed 
for not much of anything, Kaverman took it down with 
, Radzivonau check-raised all in for 11,000 and O'Dea called before Kotelnikov moved all in over the top. O'Dea made the call with 
but Kotelnikov had that dominated with 
while Radzivonau held the 
for top pair only.
, resulting in the all in of Vogelsang for his last 20,100. Citrone put him at risk with the 
for two pair.
and with the rivered flush Kaverman tripled.
all in preflop against the 
flop paired "handbt1," and he held as the turn and river came 
respectively.