On the river of a board, Vojtech Ruzicka tossed in a blue T-5,000 chip and bet 2,875 only to fold to a raise of 7,775. The Czech tanked for a good two minutes before releasing his cards and has already lost half the stack that he started with.
Mike McDonald called a 350 bet preflop and four players saw hit the middle. McDonald called a continuation bet of 550 and they were down to three players. The turn card was checked around and on the river it was checked to McDonald who bet 1,000 and took the pot.
Steven Watts now also faces Mikalai Pobal and the Belorussian just three-bet the raise of the Brit from 325 to 975 out of the small blind. Watts called and did so as well for a continuation bet of 700 on the flop. The on the turn was checked through, but the on the river saw the 2012 EPT Barcelona taking down the pot with a bet of 900.
Joining the action with the board already complete, the opponent of Gaetano Dell'Aera had a bet of 5,100 in front of him into a pot of a mere 1,600 and the Belgian now reraised to 16,500 with another 7,500 behind. His opponent eventually mucked the and then said "nice hand" before leaving his seat and getting some fresh air. Did Dell'Aera really have the full house?
Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden, whose biggest score came from a third place finish at the EPT Grand Final in Season 10 of the European Poker Tour, as well as Simon Ravnsbaek have been spotted in today's field. The Dane has more than $ 1 million in cashes and won a €2,000+150 Side Event here in Prague two years ago for € 128,700.
Four players saw a flop of and Olivier Busquet bet 800 from under the gun. That picked up one caller before it got to the player in the small blind who check-raised to 2,125.
Busquet called and it went heads-up to the turn card . Once again the small blind checked and Busquet went for a bet of 3,500. A second check-raise to 7,025 persuaded Busquet to lay it down.