Picking up the action on the flop of , Robert Svedin moved all in with a short stack and was called by Tom Orpaz.
Robert Svedin:
Tom Orpaz:
Orpaz was ahead with two pair while Svedin had plenty of hope with an open-ended straight draw. The runout of improved Svedin to a no-good two pair and he hit the rail as Orpaz raked in the pot.
A few hands earlier, Orpaz took a small hit in a three-bet pot when he flat-called a bet of 11,000 on a flop of and Richard Essex raised to around 50,000.
Essex, sitting in the nine-seat, had accidentally pushed one of his cards toward the muck as he put out his raise and Orpaz, before folding, questioned what had happened as Essex pulled his card back.
"Am I the only one who saw that?" he asked.
The dealer and other players agreed that Essex's hand was still live and that the raise would stand as it hadn't touched the muck. Orpaz and a third player in the hand both folded.
Angelo Fiorentino opened to 3,000 from middle position before Clement Bonnant made it 11,5000 from the small blind. Fiorentino responded by moving all in as the bigger stack.
Bonnant, with another 32,000 behind, didn't like the spot but ultimately called off for his tournament life.
Clement Bonnant:
Angelo Fiorentino:
Bonnant got out of his seat and started collecting his belongings after the flop and turn. However, he immediately retook his seat after the hit the river. Fiorentino was enraged and smacked the felt in disbelief.
Firat Aktag told PokerNews about a sick hand that took place ahead of dinner break resulting in him losing a 140,000-chip pot.
Aktag raised with and his opponent moved all in with . Aktag called with the superior pair and had his opponent drawing to one out as a king had already been folded.
The flop of changed nothing and the on the turn only created some chop possibilities. But none of this stopped the from spiking on the river to deliver Aktag a colossal beat.