Balea Puts a Massive Cooler on Stoica
Level 5
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
There was already around 50,000 in the. middle as Roman Stoica, Dragos Pavaluca, and Nicolae Balea went to the river with the board showing 3♠5♦7♠8♠Q♣.
Stoica, in the hijack, bet 33,000 and Pavaluca called on the button. Balea then moved all in for 115,000 in the small blind and Stoica tanked for about a minute before he called.
Pavaluca quickly got out of the way as Balae showed the nuts, A♠9♠. Stoica turned over K♠10♠ for the second nut flush and snapped a picture of the board before watching most of his stack head over to Balea, who took over the chip lead with that pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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300,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
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70,000
-150,000
|
-150,000 |
|
20,000
-45,000
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-45,000 |