On the turn of a board, Salman Behbehani fired a 6,600 bet only for Omer Shaked to make it 15,000 in position. Behbehani made the call after some consideration to see the on the river where he checked. Shaked moved all in for his remaining 16,000 and Behbehani instantly called off his own remaining chips.
Shaked:
Behbehani:
Behbehani doubled up to about 60,000 and Shaked was left with just 500 chips afterwards.
Govert Metaal may be down on his starting stack but he still has a lot of fight in him and isn’t the sort of player to sit back and let the action happen around him.
Metaal opened under the gun for 750 and got respectful folds from the table until it got to the player in the big blind who called. The flop was checked by both players and on the turn card Metaal saw his opponent check-call a bet of 1,100.
The river card was the and it was checked to Metaal who put out a bet of 2,250 with just over 10,000 behind. The bet ended any resistance and gave a much needed boost to the Dutch veteran.
Fabrice Soulier opened to 1,000 from middle position and received a single call from Robert Kuhn in the big blind. The flop came down and Kuhn checked to the raiser. Soulier rapped the table in reply and the touched the felt on fourth street.
Kuhn took this opportunity to fire 1,600 at the pot. Soulier stuck around and the finished off the community cards. Kuhn thought for a moment before reaching for chips. He moved 2,700 past the betting line only to have Soulier fling out a call.
Kuhn instantly tossed his hand into the muck and Soulier was pushed the pot without revealing his cards. He's now clawing back toward the starting stack with about 22,000 to his name.
Asif Rajah check-called a bet of 6,000 on the turn of a board against Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen to see the on the river where both players checked. Rajah showed and Jorgensen nodded and mucked his hand.
Dominik Nitsche has been nursing his sub six big blind stack for a while now with the antes and blinds eroding his chances of survival further and further. He was seemingly powerless to do anything as it rarely folded to him without some action and he couldn’t find a hand to make a stand with. A short while ago though he was all in and it folded to the player in the blig blind who looked him up, calling Nitsche’s bet of 1,950.
“Ace-jack.” Nitsche announced turning over and saw he was facing . The flop rode to the rescue though with a final board reading to double him up to ten big blinds.