From middle position, Kevin Vandersmissen raised to 1,600. The player in the small blind called and Sam Chartier called from the big blind. The flop came down and action checked around. The turn was the and the small blind checked. Chartier fired 2,700 and Vandersmissen folded. The small blind called. The landed on the river and the small blind checked. Chartier bet 7,400 and the small blind called.
Chartier showed the for a rivered straight to the nine. His opponent didn't realize Chartier had made a straight and turned over the . The dealer mucked it and Chartier was pushed the pot.
The action folded to Vladimir Geshkenbein in the hijack and he opened to 1,600. The cutoff folded but David Kahan flat-called on the button. The small blind got out of the way but Anton Thorarinsson felt he was priced in from the big blind and he made the call.
Flop: - Thorarinsson checked, Geshkenbein continued with a bet of 3,500 then Kahan raised to 11,500 sending Thorarinson into the tank. He stayed there for close to two minutes before reluctantly folding his hand. No sooner had he done that, Geshkenbein put a stack of blue 5,000 chips into the middle to set Kahan all in and his bet was called.
Geshkenbein:
Kahan:
Thorarinsson said, "I had " which obviously effected Geshkenbein's chances of hitting a flush.
"That's not the best news," answered the Russian, "But I've had worse."
The dealer burned a card before dealing the turn, and the river sending the pot to Kahan.
"Wow," exclaimed Kahan, "You actually lose a hand sometimes" before Stefan Jähne piped up saying "spades are no longer your friends."
"I'm still happy," said Geshkenbein and rightly so because he still has over 150,000 chips and is at the right end of the chip counts.
He's dropped a few chips but Sam Chartier is still the man. I stood by his table for a while hoping to catch the Canadian in an interesting pot but his table mates seem to be running scared of him.
He played two pots whilst I was in attendance. Both were three handed and Chartier found opponents folding to the first time he put a chip in the middle post flop. Easy game this, sometimes.
There are few poker players on the planet who would choose to take on Vanessa Selbst at the felt but Carl Carlsson did just that and came away with his stack still intact.
Selbst had opened to 2,300 from UTG+1 and after three players had folded Carlsson three-bet to just 5,000. Once the remaining active players got out of the way Selbst took back her original bet and replaced ith with a single 5,000 chip. Call.
The dealer got busy fanning out the flop and Selbst checked. Carlsson bet 8,000 but that was too much for Selbst to call and she sent her cards to the muck.
Kevin Vandersmissen had just sent a tweet to our Dutch counterpart apologising for not giving him much action to report on during today's play but he has just given him, and us, something to write about.
The action folded around to Vandersmissen in the hijack and he min-raised to 2,000. The button and small blind folded but Martin Hauswald in the big blind three-bet all in for 16,500. Vandersmissen picked up some blue chips to call with but couldn't quite pull the trigger. Instead he simply waved them around in a circular motion in mid-air for a few seconds before finally deciding to pull that trigger and make the call.
Vandersmissen:
Hauswald:
Vandersmissen did not look happy at all with his call but that soon changed because the flop came down . At this point Hauswald had stood from his chair and started to gather his belongings. He was drawing dead on the turn and to rub a little salt into the wound the river was the completing an unnecessary full house for the Irish Open champion.
Walking around the room, there are far less tables than what once began today. With the consolidation of tables, a bunch of notable players have ended up at what is referred to as the "secondary feature table." In the first four seats you have, in order, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, Anton Wigg, Olivier Busquet and Ilan Boujenah. Then, in seat eight you have another Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen and in seat nine sits Scott Baumstein. If this table isn't stacked, we don't know what it.
From under the gun, Anton Wigg raised to 2,200. Olivier Busquet called from the next seat and then Vanessa Selbst called from the big blind. The three players saw the flop come down and action checked to Busquet. He bet 2,500 and won the pot.
Sometimes known as the hardest hand to play in poker, pocket jacks can be your friend or your enemy. Martin Quack kind of likes them right now, Dennis Bejedal kind of hates them.
Bejedal was very unfortunate as he found them in the big blind when Demushkin Vasiliy found aces on the button. That was that for him.
Quack, meanwhile, used them to eliminate Ludovic Lacay. The Frenchman open shipped for 16,200 with pocket sixes. Quack was is the next seat and three-bet all-in to isolate. Everyone else folded and Quack's jacks took care of business.
and action checked around. The turn was the 
and the small blind checked. Chartier fired 2,700 and Vandersmissen folded. The small blind called. The 
landed on the river and the small blind checked. Chartier bet 7,400 and the small blind called.
for a rivered straight to the nine. His opponent didn't realize Chartier had made a straight and turned over the 
. The dealer mucked it and Chartier was pushed the pot.
- Thorarinsson checked, Geshkenbein continued with a bet of 3,500 then Kahan raised to 11,500 sending Thorarinson into the tank. He stayed there for close to two minutes before reluctantly folding his hand. No sooner had he done that, Geshkenbein put a stack of blue 5,000 chips into the middle to set Kahan all in and his bet was called.
" which obviously effected Geshkenbein's chances of hitting a flush.
and the river 
sending the pot to Kahan.
flop and Selbst checked. Carlsson bet 8,000 but that was too much for Selbst to call and she sent her cards to the muck.
turn and to rub a little salt into the wound the river was the 
completing an unnecessary full house for the Irish Open champion.
