On a turned board showing , Ross Boatman checked, and Tobias Reinkemeier put out a bet of about 12,000. After a moment, Boatman check-raised to 30,000 straight. Reinkemeier debated it for several minutes before kicking it in, and the pot was pushed to Boatman. He flipped over the from his hand, and he looked a bit surprised as he furrowed his brow. "I thought it was the ace of hearts," he said, pulling in the pot.
Angle or innocent mistake, that pot pushes Boatman up close to 100,000.
Team PokerStars Pro Henrique Pinho was just eliminated in unusual fashion. In the small blind, Pinho was dealt a king first, and his second card flipped over and was exposed by the dealer; it was another king. The card he received to replace it was an ace, and Pinho ended up all in preflop with Big Slick. He ran into an Italian opponent with pocket aces, though, crushing news for Pinho.
The board came down king-high, and Pinho would have doubled up but for the exposed king that cost him trips. Instead, he is out.
Jesus Sanchez in the cutoff and Jude Ainsworth in the small blind got as far the turn of a board and Ainsworth seemed to have checked. Either way, Sanchez bet 27,500, but then folded when Ainsworth moved in for another 40,000 or so.
A triumphant Ainsworth showed him .
Ainsworth - up to 165,000
Sanchez - down to 175,000
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More Visser-on-Black action, Visser in the big blind and Black on the button. This time they saw a flop and Blackbet 4,000. Visser check-called.
They both checked the turn and the river, at which point Visser turned over for the straight. Everyone laughed, for some reason, and Black looked resigned, if a little depressed.
With a raise to 5,000 in front of him, Shaun Deeb made the call, and Jeff Sarwer came along as well from the big blind. Three-handed to the flop, the dealer rolled out . Deeb got the rest of his ~50,000 chips in with for top-top, but he would be in a bad way. Sarwer had flopped a straight with , and Deeb was unable to go runner-runner to survive.
Sarwer is now quite healthy with just about 300,000.
As reported to us by PokerNews pet Gloria Balding, JP Kelly raised to 6,000 preflop and then called all in when another player reraised to cover him.
Kelly was in pretty good shape with against his opponent's , but a cruel six on the river spelled the end of Kelly's first outing as a Team Pokerstars Pro.
Under the gun, Jeff Sarwer opened to 4,800, and his old pal Shaun Deeb came along with him for a heads-up flop. The dealer spread out , and both players checked. They would do the same on the turn, and the river brought the . When Sarwer checked a third time, Deeb stacked out 6,700 chips and slid them across the line.
Sarwer leaned back in his chair with a smirk on his face. "Friggin' four-flush," he said, still smiling and shooting glances across the table. After another minute or so, he hurriedly stacked together the call and plunked it into the pot. Deeb tabled for the airball. Sarwer proudly flipped over , his lowly pair of deuces good enough to earn him the pot.