Cord Garcia just got eliminated in a huge blind versus blind confrontation.
Norbert Szecsi completed his small blind and Cord Garcia raised it 450,000. Szecsi considered his next move before announcing a raise for 1,200,000. Garcia instantly moved all in and Szecsi snap-called with a slightly bigger stack.
Cord Garcia:
Norbert Szecsi:
Garcia was in desperate shape to win the hand and found no help through a board to be eliminated in 6th place for €181,830.
The action began with Joris Ruijs calling for 100,000 on the button, followed by Richard Kirsch and Norbert Szecsi in the blinds.
The flop came and after two checks, Ruijs bet 100,000. Only Kirsch got interested and called.
A appeared on the turn and Kirsch checked. Ruijs bet 325,000 this time and faced a raise to 700,000 from Kirsch. After some thinking, he opted to call.
The river brought a and Kirsch moved all in, putting Ruijs tournament at risk. After some tank, the latter ended up folding reluctantly and Kirsh showed for the straight.
Orpen Kisacikoglu opened to 190,000 and only Norbert Szesci called in the big blind position.
The flop went and both players checked. The turn showed the and Szesci bet 225,00. Kisacikoglu thought about his move for 20 seconds before tossing a stack of 25,000 chips for raise around 550,000. Szesci quickly folded.
Cord Garcia opened to 200,000 and Zhong Chen called from the big blind.
The flop came and Zhong first checked before raising to 550,000 after Garcia made a continuation bet for 200,000. Garcia announced all in and Chen snap-called.
Holding for a set of sevens, Chen was in good shape to double once more, facing in Garcia's hand, but Garcia got there when the board ran out to river the straight he needed to eliminate Chen.
Zhong Chen limped under the gun and Norbert Szecsi raised it to 280,000. It folded back to Chan who announced all in for 1,135,000 and Szecsi snap-called to create the following showdown:
Zhong Chen:
Norbert Szecsi:
The dealer brought a board , improving Chen's hand into a set of threes for the double up.