Ilya Gorodetskiy, editor of Pokernews UK & Europe magazine, opened with a cheeky raise, holding pocket tens. Jean Goncalves called behind, but Evgeniy Zaytsev in the small blind reraised. Gorodetskiy passed his tens ("I knew I was right," he said afterwards), but Goncalves made the call, and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Zaytsev bet out, and again Goncalves called. They proceeded.
Turn:
There was around 30,000 in the pot by this point. Zaytsev moved all in for 25,000. Goncalves called.
Zaytsev:
Goncalves:
River:
A very relieved Zaytsev doubled to 80,000 - as far as we can see, that's the biggest stack in the room right now. Goncalves is still in, on 15,000.
), Darus Suharto in the big blind and his opponent across the table both checked.
and Suharto now bet out 7,500. His opponent sighed. "You might have a ten," he hypothesized, "Or you're bluffing..."
. "OK, no chance," said Mr. Opponent, with only a hint of embarrassment. He flashed the
. Minieri was in the lead with
.
on the turn didn't change anything, but the river card sure did. The
peeled off, and several players at the table let out a genuine, "Awwww." Not sure why they'd want to keep the dangerous Minieri around, but it's no matter now; he's out.