A case of Puch comes to shove as Kostantin Puchkov moved all-in for his last 450,000 and it was passed around to Jonas Gutteck who asked for a count then moved all-in from the small blind. Max Heinzelmann quickly got out of the way.
Gutteck:
Puchkov:
We have to confess, Puchkov's hopes didn't look too great after a flop of and no six, seven or eight came on the turn meant the Russian was eliminated on the river.
A table is now being broken, the new table draw will be up shortly.
An enormous hand up on the feature table ran several minutes into the break and left Team PokerStars Pro Joep van den Bijgaart with a million in chips, while extending Ben Wilinofsky's lead.
The flop read and there was a bet of roughly 205,000 in front of Wilinofsky on the button. We're not sure whether van den Bijgaart had checked the flop or bet out, but either way there was a raise/reraise to 530,000 in front of him. Wilinofsky now shoved, though, and van den Bijgaart folded.
Robin Ylitalo opened to 65,000 and Cuello Jorge Mariano flat-called behind him, these two have been sparring a lot with many 3-bet and 4-bets thrown both ways so it was interesting to see the two now play a rare flop.
Both players checked the flop and Ylitalo fired out 84,000 on the turn which the Spaniard called. The river paired the and Ylitalo now bet 168,000 and Mariano instantly called.
The Swede confidently turned over but surprisingly Mariano flipped for a better kicker. Although Mariano won the pot, you have to wonder what would've happened if either player had bet the flop or if Mariano could've raised the river and made many more chips.
Thomas Traboulsi opened to 77,000 under the gun - a somewhat suspicious bet, seeing as he had just 170,000 or under six big blinds behind. Sure enough, everyone folded, and Traboulsi showed them the .
Fabrice Soulier opened to 69,000 from the button and Luis Jaikel made it 173,000 from the small blind.
"You started with about 700?" asked Soulier as Jaikel counted out what looked to be about 500,000 remaining. "Raise all-in," said the Frenchman.
Jaikel didn't instantly call, but he didn't fold straight away either. Soulier told him, "I want you to fold, I don't want a bad beat...I'm telling you the truth."
Finally, Jaikel folded the face up, Soulier turned over the .