Former big stack Daniel Dvoress ended up all-in for just 60,234 via open-shove and Timothy Nuter made the call out of the big blind.
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board failed to improve Dvoress and he joined the virtual rail.
Former big stack Daniel Dvoress ended up all-in for just 60,234 via open-shove and Timothy Nuter made the call out of the big blind.
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board failed to improve Dvoress and he joined the virtual rail.
Brian Green made it 16,000 to go in the hijack and Christian Rudolph called on the button. Chun Lei "judd trump" Zhou then got it in for 72,999 in the big blind and the initial raiser folded, while Rudolph called.
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for the mighty pair to hold and Zhou's second bullet went down in flames.
Action folded to Galen Hall in the button who raised to 12,600. Isaac Haxton raised in the small blind to 36,000 which prompted an all in from Roland "Gwriden" Rokita in the big blind for 266,634. Hall folded and Haxton made the call.
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. The turn
meant Rokita needed an ace or a king to stay alive, but it was the
on the river to eliminate him and give Haxton a bigger chip lead and the first over a million chips.
Only 72 players currently remain as the tournament has all but reached the $5 million guarantee with 196 total entries.
Andras Nemeth tried to push Jean-Noel "OscarBrown" Thorel out of the pot on the river of a ![]()
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board but the Frenchman called with ![]()
for the top pair. Nemeth only had ![]()
for a busted wheel draw and took a hit.
However, in the next hand, Nemeth won some chips back after he took on the open-shove by "KingKongJoel" while in the big blind.
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board ensured the checkmark for Nemeth on the turn already.
Leonard "LottoLarry" Maue raised to 12,000 from the button, Daniel Negreanu made it 33,600 in the small blind, and it folded back to Maue who went all in for 91,827 and was called by Negreanu.
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Negreanu flopped top pair on the ![]()
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flop but was still in rough shape as Maue flopped a set. The turn
and river
confirmed the double for Maue.
Negreanu took down pots in the next couple hands to get back up in chips.
Niveau: 17
Blinds: 3,250/6,500
Ante: 800
In a rather innocent battle of the blinds, Benjamin Rolle checked his option on the ![]()
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flop and Pedro Garagnani checked back. Rolle bet the
turn for 20,663 to earn a call and also bet the
river for 43,790.
Garagnani moved all-in with the covering stack for 179,656 total and Rolle went into the tank. He had 69,427 behind and eventually called it off with the ![]()
for jacks and eights. However, Garagnani had ![]()
for the nut flush and dealt the final blow.
Sorel Mizzi opened to 12,000 in second position and Sami Kelopuro called. Adrian Mateos three-bet to 38,000 in the small blind and Jean-Noel "OscarBrown" Thorel cold-called, Mizzi and Kelopuro folded.
Mateos continued for 62,625 on the ![]()
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flop and Thorel stuck around to see the
on the turn. Another bet worth 82,665 by the Spaniard followed and Thorel then stuck in his 334,229, which Mateos called.
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Thorel had plenty of outs but the
river was not among them. He immediately re-entered into the same seat.
Pavel Veksler raised to 12,000 and picked up one caller, "sisu" then three-bet to 48,000 on the button. Veksler reraised to 121,020 and "sisu" was the only caller to create a pot of 269,040 to the ![]()
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flop. The continuation bet of Veksler for 75,022 was called and he then jammed the
turn for 374,691.
"sisu" had that covered but opted to get out of the way.