Andrew Alan Chen is certainly doing it the hard way. As expected, Chen pushed all in for his remaining 224,000 as soon as he found a half-decent holding, but again he was looked up, this time by Salvatore Bonavena in the big blind, and again, he was dominated...
Bonavena =
Chen =
He may have been teetering on the edge of defeat, but Chen turned water into wine on the gasp-inducing flop...
A double nine in a line was enough as the turn came followed by an academic on the river.
Chen doubles through to 470,000 and heads off to the nearest newsagent to purchase a lottery ticket.
Massimo Di Cicco minraises to 32,000 and Fredrik Nygard calls from the big blind. The flop is and checked to the raiser, who, having only min-raised preflop now bets 100,000, a slight overbet of the pot. Nygard now thinks for a moment, before setting Di Cicco in. The Italian instantly folds.
Di Cicco takes the next hand though, he pushes and gets no callers.
Fredrik Nygard raised to 39,000 preflop, only for Alexiou Konstantinos to make a three-bet to 229,000. Although it was a large reraise, Nygard opted to flat call.
The flop was checked, as was the turn, but on the river, Konstantinos went to check, but dipped into his stack at the last second and led for 120,000.
Nygard made what appeared to be a reluctant call, but he was right to be hesitant as Konstantinos revealed which was good enough to pick up the pot.
Another bizarre hand, but one that worked in favour of the Greek amateur.
Frederik Nygard raises to 39,000 and [Removed:197] moves all in for 263,000. After a long think, Nygard calls with and is dominated by Nasr's and stays second best to the short stack on the board.