There was a raise to 6,000 from the button, but Rijkenburg countered it with a reraise to 18,100, from the small blind (not sure the extra one hundred chips was doing much, but it is his right.) After some consideration, the button folded, and Rijkenberg is on 135,000.
2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo
€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event
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There was a raise to 6,000 from the button, but Rijkenburg countered it with a reraise to 18,100, from the small blind (not sure the extra one hundred chips was doing much, but it is his right.) After some consideration, the button folded, and Rijkenberg is on 135,000.
Down to mere shrapnel, Rugini got his very last in with
, only for Galic to wake up with
. However, the board came down
to give Rugini the four flush, and he stayed in.Still dangerously short, he shoved again the next hand and this time he thought he'd be good with
. Unfortunately for him, Galic looked down at his cards, found pocket aces and called.A jack and a ten came down on the flop, and Galic was actually calling for a queen to double up the hapless Rugini, but it was not to be and the Galic steamroller continues on a disturbingly more-than-double-the-next-biggest-stack 500,000.
staying behind all the way down a raggy board against diminutive Frenchman Tristan Clemencon's
. Clemencon, who looked genuinely sorry to be busting his opponent, is now up to a very comfortable 145,000.
Dragan Galic: up to 450,000 and still crushing his table.
Dan O'Brien: has the look of a condemned man but is hanging tough with 50,000.
Tom McEvoy: still looks strange to us with his beard, but it has hindered him yet. He's on 65,000.
Asa Smith: just raised his button and folded to push from the small blind. That loss knocked him down to 60,000.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
After folding
to Veldhuis the hand before, van den Berg was certain that his pocket kings would be good -- but in a cruel blow, Veldhuis had the aces and after a king-free board was dealt, van den Berg made his exit. "So sick," he lamented. "Sick," agreed Veldhuis, now commander of around 90,000 in chips.