2025 PLO Grand Slam Malta
Filip Aleksic raised to 50,000 in the cutoff. Oleksii Kovalchuk then moved all in for 164,000 in the small blind, and Aleksic quickly called.
Oleksii Kovalchuk: A♣Q♠J♦6♣
Filip Aleksic: K♥K♦5♥2♣
Kovalchuk flopped a flush draw on 9♣4♠5♣ and turned the best pair with the A♠. The 6♥ river improved him to two pair, securing him the pot and doubling his dire stack.
The players have been sent on a break of 20 minutes.
Level: 15
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Nikolaos Lampropoulos had shoved his stack of 315,000 in from the small blind, being called by Filip Lovric on the button.
Nikolaos Lampropoulos: K♥K♦Q♦10♣
Filip Lovric: A♠A♣4♥4♣
Lampropoulos found no help on the 3♣Q♠7♣7♠8♠ runout. Lovric's aces held and sent his neighbor to the exit.
Carlo van Ravenswoud pushed in his remaining 150,000 into a pot of 500,000 on the J♦8♠6♦ flop, being at risk against Andras Nemeth.
Carlo van Ravenswoud: K♠K♥Q♠5♥
Andras Nemeth: 9♦7♥7♦6♥
Nemeth hit his flush draw on the 2♦ turn, locking up the pot. The 5♦ river was rendered meaningless as Nemeth's red-hot Day 2 run continued.
Martin Nielsen opened from middle position. Andras Nemeth three-bet to 240,000 on the button, which Nielsen decided to call.
Nielsen moved in for 510,000 on the K♥2♠Q♠ flop, seeing Nemeth muck his cards to take down the pot without showdown.