The player on the button raised to 25,000, Marcel Luske called from the small blind, and the big blind called as well.
The three players saw a flop of and action checked around.
The turn brought the and Luske bet 40,000. The big blind folded and the button went into the tank for over a minute before he raised to 140,000. Luske tossed his cards into the muck and his opponent took the pot.
Dominik Nitsche has mostly been recognized for his online poker skills. Nitsche started out playing online in 2006 and amassed over $3 million in earnings doing so. In 2009, Nitsche took to the felt for the first time, winning an LAPT event for $381,000. Since then, Nitsche has gone on to win three WSOP bracelets and accumulated over $6.7 million in live tournament winnings.
We caught up with Nitsche in the middle of a hand with the board reading . There was around 130,000 in the pot and the action had been checked to Nitsche who bet 150,000. His opponent slid forward a stack of chips for a call and the showed up on the river.
Both players checked the river and Nitsche tabled for the best hand. Nitsche scooped a decent-sized pot and has built him a stack to sit among the chip leaders.
Sarah Herring caught up with him and Sofia Lovgren on the break.
Sam Stein opened with and a short-stacked Maximiliano Gallardo moved all in for his last 91,000 holding .
The flop fanned out giving Stein a straight draw which was completed with the on the turn. Gallardo did pick up a flush draw but the bricked out and Gallardo was forced to wait in line at the payout booth.
We found Clint Tolbert facing an all-in shove from Julio Belluscio. There was north of 350,000 in the middle, and Belluscio was in the big blind and all in for 261,000. The board read . Tolbert, in the small blind, stood up and rubbed his face after getting the count. He dropped in some chips to call.
Belluscio pounded the table in submission and turned over for a missed gutter on the turn. Tolbert showed .
"Wow, that's a professional call," someone said. "Way to sniff that out."
Charalampos Lappas and Matthew Diehl were all in and at risk against the big stack of Mikhail Korotkikh.
Korotkikh had and was in the lead against the of Lappas and the of Deihl.
Korotkikh celebrated loudly when the flop came and he flopped four of a kind. Diehl pointed to the flop as the turn was coming down.
"Straight flush," he said, seeing he still had outs to win.
The turn was the , but the river was the , and Korotkikh's excitement was somewhat muted by the runout. Diehl would triple up and Korotkikh made about 50,000 on the pot from Lappas.
Andre Akkari moved all in from under the gun and the next player to act called. Everyone else got out of the way and the two players tabled their hands.
Akkari:
Opponent:
Akkari had the preflop advantage and stayed ahead on the flop, but the turn double-paired the board, making a chop look likely. The on the river sealed the deal and the two players split the pot.