After a flop of , Thomas Butzhammer check-called a bet of 1,200 by Anton Wigg and did so again after the turn for 3,200. Once the appeared on the river, Butzhammer checked and then took very long before announcing all in when Wigg had made another bet worth 6,800.
The preflop and flop action is unknown, but Robin Ylitalo check-called a bet of 2,200 on the turn. Ylitalo then check-raised the river from 4,100 to 13,800 and Mateos moved all in for 41,250. The Swede was sent into the think tank for several minutes and the hand itself lasted seven minutes into the break before Ylitalo would release his cards.
In the last hand before the break, a large reraise was in front of Sameer Khurana, in fact three chips of 5,000 each. Vladimir Troyanovskiy moved all in from one seat over and Khurana checked his cards again before eventually folding. Troyanovskiy showed him the and his opponent was surprised. "Ace king you go all in? Wow. I had same hand."
Troyanovskiy replied "maybe I understand that you have same hand" with his charming Russian accent and stacked the chips before heading into the first break of the day.
Yesterday Kevin MacPhee played a blinder, and got a straight flush to boot. But while he may have enjoyed his day at the office it was a different story for Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who crashed out moments ago. The PokerStars Blog reports.
On a flop of Alexander Ivarsson check-raised Roman Korenev to 4,700 and got called.
The turn card was the and Ivarsson continued his aggressive line with a further bet of 6,800. Korenev wasn’t giving up though and put in the required chips. No more action on the river card and Ivarsson’s couldn’t find a club to beat the .
Meanwhile on the same table Dimitar Danchev isn’t looking to happy with how things are going with his remaining 14,800 chips spread out in front of him.
Josip Simunic first cold four-bet to 5,100 and was called by two opponents to see a flop of and bet 5,500. One opponent called but then gave up to the second barrel of the Austrian on the turn.
Another four-bet pot would see him made a continuation bet of 8,000 on the flop and again nobody would be willing to call, Simunic had pocket aces.
Soon after, an opponent wanted to raise to 500 but only tossed in a T-500 chip without saying anything, it was ruled as call and David Vamplew as well as Simunic and one further player stuck around. On a flop with two clubs, Vamplew bet 550, was called by Simunic and then someone raised to 1,200. Only Simunic called to see a on the turn where the Austrian check-called 2,500 out of the big blind. The same story repeated itself after the river for 5,500 and Simunic's for a backdoor full house were no good against the pocket aces of the opponent.