Uwe Ritter bet 55,000 on a board and was called by Dietrich Fast on his left. On the river, Ritter checked. Fast shuffled for a couple of minutes before moving all in, and Ritter folded. The Day 1b leader has a very healthy stack of more than 400,000.
Lothar Meier opened to 10,000 and was reraised to 21,000 by Niklas Hambitzer. The rest of the table folded and Meier made the call. The flop came and Meier led out for 30,000. Hambitzer laughed, and then nonchalantly announced that he was all in. He was immediately called by Meier. Hambitzer had for top pair but was behind Meier who had for top two pair. The turn was the .
"King, king, king," whispered Hambitzer.
His pleas worked. The river was the .
"Sorry," said Hambitzer. Meier just shrugged his shoulders as if to say that it was ok.
Justin Zaki open-shipped his last 14,500 from the button and Naoya Kihara called out of the small blind. The big blind folded and the hands were revealed.
Zaki:
Kihara:
The board came out , pairing Kihara's jack and eliminating Zaki from play.
When Theo Jorgensen joined Team Pro, it cost him an immediate $160,000. That and other swingy stories from two Team Pros who know the ups and downs of poker on the PokerStars Blog.
PokerStars Team Pro Andre Akkari just got the last of his stack in with against the of Chance Kornuth. The latter turned a pair of queens to seal the deal, and Akkari headed for the payouts.