With the full board out of , Stoyan Obreshkov bet 13,600 and Evgenii Leonidov took quite some time before committing the call. Obreshkov rolled over and Leonidov paused for a few seconds before showing for a chop.
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There was already substantial preflop action brewing with three T-1,000 chips in front of Eli Ross (small blind), 7,600 in front of Brian Altman (middle position) and an all-in shove for 14,800 from Igor Tregoubov in the cutoff.
Ross let it go after some thought and Altman committed the extra chips.
Igor Tregoubov:
Brian Altman:
The flop kept Altman way ahead but the on the turn was one of the outs Tregoubov needed. The river brought the and Altman had to part with a decent chunk of his stack as well as enduring some chuckles from his tablemates.