Dmitry Gromov raised to 9,500 from under the gun and was called by Joseph Cheong. Mike Leah peeked at his cards, grabbed five blue T-5,000 chips and announced a raise, making it 27,000 in total out of the small blind. From one seat over, Martin Kabrhel moved all in for less than 190,000 chips and the initial raiser from Russia as well as Cheong folded.
Leah double-checked his cards and then made the call with . Kabrhel had and the likely split pot was suddenly shaken by the flop. Any further spade would give the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific High Roller champion the flush, but Kabrhel dodged it thanks to the on the turn and the on the river.
Leon Tsoukernik has been eliminated from the tournament, but directly announced he would be rebuying.
We're not entirely sure what happened, as we were busy one table over writing down the details on Brian Roberts' double up (to follow). We do know Tsoukernik got his chips in with on . Mike Watson was the one putting Tsoukernik at risk with and got lucky on the river: .
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier has amassed over $3.6 million in tournament earnings this year alone and we looked back on it with him during one of the breaks.
Olivier Busquet opened from the hijack position and called Brian Roberts' three bet from the small blind to 30,000.
The flop came and Roberts bet out 18,000. Busquet made the call and the fell on the turn. Roberts moved all in for 87,000 and after some hefty thinking it was Busquet making the call.
Olivier Busquet:
Brian Roberts:
The on the river didn't do Busquet any good and Roberts doubled.
We arrived at the table just as Jean-Noel Thorel moved all in for around 100,000 in chips on a flop. Connor Drinan and Vladimir Troyanovskiy mucked their hands before Brian Roberts made the quick call as the last player to act.
Thorel:
Roberts:
Thorel had flopped a pair and an open-ended straight draw but was behind to Roberts who already flopped the straight. No help came with the on the turn and on the river as Thorel was sent to the rail.
Mikita Badziakouski three-bet shoved out of the small blind for exactly 80,000 and initial raiser Dmitry Gromov snap-called, confidentially tabling his . His opponent from Belorussia was behind with but improved with the board running out .
Gromov had some words in Russian for his table neighbor and them whispered a "thank you" towards the dealer, shortly after complaining about another bad beat from the previous day.
Coming back as one of the short stacks, Brian Roberts is storming to the top of the chip counts within three hands in a row. After doubling up and then knocking out Jean-Noel Thorel, he just busted Connor Drinan as well. Roberts raised to 11,000 from the cutoff and Drinan made it 28,000 on the button.
Roberts looked at the dealer, then formed a triangle and was thus all in. Drinan called off with a total of 180,000 in total and both players tabled their cards.
Roberts:
Drinan:
The board ran out and that was it for Drinan on the first bullet.
Both Jean-Noel Thorel and Connor Drinan have purchased their second bullet and bumped the attendance to 46 entries in total, which includes 5 re-entries.
Both Jean-Noel Thorel and Christoph Vogelsang are using their second bullets in this tournament and were recently involved in a hand together.
The hand started with Thorel raising to 8,500 from the hijack and getting called by Vogelsang on the button and also another player in the small blind.
The flop came down {c} and a quick check prompted Thorel to b lead out for 10,500. Only Vogelsang made the call as the two watched the dealer produce the on the turn.
Thorel didn’t slow down, betting out another 18,000 which was quickly called. The completed the board and Thorel reached down for his chips and tossed out 50,000. Vogelsang thought about his decision for almost a minute before finally making the call.
Thorel then slowly tabled his for a straight and watched as Vogelsang threw his cards into the muck.
From our PokerStars Blog colleagues we heard the news that Ivan Soshnikov is still multi tabling the €50,000 High Roller and the €1,100 EUREKA Main Event. Except for he's not, as he can't find his stack in the EUREKA. His table broke and he has no idea where his stack moved to. So back to the High Roller tables it is for Soshnikov.
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and the likely split pot was suddenly shaken by the 
flop. Any further spade would give the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific High Roller champion the flush, but Kabrhel dodged it thanks to the 
on the turn and the 
on the river.
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. Mike Watson was the one putting Tsoukernik at risk with 
and got lucky on the river: 
and Roberts bet out 18,000. Busquet made the call and the 
fell on the turn. Roberts moved all in for 87,000 and after some hefty thinking it was Busquet making the call.
on the river didn't do Busquet any good and Roberts doubled.
flop. Connor Drinan and Vladimir Troyanovskiy mucked their hands before Brian Roberts made the quick call as the last player to act.
on the turn and 
on the river as Thorel was sent to the rail.
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and that was it for Drinan on the first bullet.
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