Battle of Blinds Results in Loeser Exit

A huge hand played out between Rathi Shashank and Manig Loeser that saw the latter hit the rail after a battle of the blinds between the two.

Action folded around to Shashank in the small blind who just completed before Loeser decided to get aggressive and he raised to 1,900, only to see Shashank check-raise to 4,600 in total.

Loeser thought it over for a few seconds before calling and the flop came down a monochrome , which Shashank led for an enticing 2,500. The German made the call to keep the action heads-up to the turn.

Despite the pair up, Shashank fired a second barrel of 6,500 causing Loeser to recheck his cards not once, but twice before he moved all-in for 28,200 in total.

After asking for the count Shashank thought it over until there were just 5-seconds on the clock before throwing in the calling chips and the cards were turned over.

While Loeser, holding had begun the hand with a dominated holding the German had managed to spike trips to pull ahead of Shashank’s . However, the Hong Kong-based player had the spade redraw to fall back on, in addition to the deck’s sole remaining queen and the arrival of a fourth spade on the river saw Loeser bust his first bullet.