The following hand occurred before the break and dragged about four minutes into the respite.
With on the board, Shiguang Zeng bet 35,000 into a pot that looked to contain around 100,000. He was in the small blind and induced a fold from the big blind, but Christoph Vogelsang was slower. A lot slower, as in he would use two time extensions as he reasoned out what to do.
"What can you have?" he wondered as players filtered out of the room, leaving just a few curious spectators. "King-ten? Nine-ten?"
Eventually, Vogelsang decided to call, and Zeng could only muster for the nut blocker and ace-high. Vogelsang showed with one spade and took it down.
We found Ari Engel in the hijack with a three-bet of 16,500 in front of him after his neighbor opened to 5,500. That player made it 39,500 to go, and Engel used a time extension in response. He said he was all in, and his opponent double-checked his holding and called for about 135,000.
Engel:
Opponent:
The flop did nothing for either player, but the caused Engel's opponent to mutter something in his native tongue. A finished out the board for good measure.
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau was first to act and shoved all in for 32,800. Tomi Brouk called the shove one seat over. In middle position, Anthony Zinno put 65,000 of his 85,000 stack forward.
The action was folded to Emin Aghayev in the small blind, who went all in for 155,000.
"You boys have fun," laughed Brouk, who folded his hand. Zinno committed the few remaining chips he had behind.
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau:
Anthony Zinno:
Emin Aghayev:
The flop helped neither player who was at risk. Aghayev also kept the lead after the on the turn.
The on the river elicited a fist-pump from Vaskaboinikau, who escaped elimination by rivering the two-outer. The side pot went to Aghayev and Zinno was eliminated.
We found Alex Foxen shoving all in from the hijack with on the board. It looked like about 65,000, and Marius Gierse called on the button. Foxen showed what looked like for two pair, but Gierse had a better two with .
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