Lellouche told him he could look at one card - he turned over an ace. Suddenly feeling generous, Lellouche encouraged him to look at the other card. It was also an ace.
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Lellouche told him he could look at one card - he turned over an ace. Suddenly feeling generous, Lellouche encouraged him to look at the other card. It was also an ace.
. Boatman leaned over and tapped the felt in acknowledgement, flipping over his
.The dealer burned a card and dealt three: the
stuck right in the door. In the end, the board of
was no good at all for Boatman, and he has been sent up the creek.
A moment later, he was all in, open-shoving form the cutoff. "Ross Boatman is all in," he announced for the benefit of the bloggers, who knew that anyway. Olaf de Zeeuw called on the button, as did Aurelien Guiglini in the small blind.
"I'm going to try the standing up trick, see if that works," said Boatman. He stood up, rubbing his hands together.
The flop came down
and Boatman promptly sat back down. There was some muted laughter around the table, and eventually he stood up again. Guiglini bet out 38,000, prompting de Zeeuw to fold
face up. On their backs, and it was looking unfortunate for Boatman...Boatman:
for an overpairGuiglini:
for a setBut wait!
Turn:
River:
Boatman's luck may finally have changed, and he triples up to around 80,000.
, racing for his tournament life against Boatman's
.The board ran out
, and that's safe for Ainsworth. He's doubled up to about 190,000, while Boatman has been crippled all the way back to about 30,000.
The flop came out
, and Coelho continued out with a bet of 15,000. Visser stacked out a raise to 53,000 and stuck it in, and Coelho quickly called.Fourth street brought the
, and Coelho led right back out with another 15,000 chips. Visser just flatted this time, and the river was the
. Another 15,000 chips came from Coelho's end, and Visser quickly folded. He's slipped to about 385,000 now, while Coelho's stack has moved up steadily; he's somewhere around 320,000 now, though his slapdash chip-stacking technique makes it difficult to be sure.
board, to take the pot with a seven for bottom straight. Reinkemeier turned over pocket kings.
. Barbosa could only show
, at risk for his tournament life.The first four cards off the deck were no good for Barbosa:
. The river, however, was an eye-widening
, saving Barbosa from his demise and doubling him up close to 230,000.
Manuel Cadilhe all in with
Johan "busto_soon" van Til for more with
Michel "The Abacus" Abecassis covering them both with
Board:
Busto_soon is busto now, as is Cadilhe.
Frankfort: pocket sevens
Terrazas: pocket tens
Heitmann: "Ah, same hand."
Frankfort failed to find any miracles on the board, and out he goes.
The news wasn't good. He tabled
, in trouble against de Zeeuw and his
. And things would only get worse as the flop came down
, drawing a forlorn sigh from Erkenov. The turn
gave him some chop outs to Broadway, but the
that rivered was no help. That's all for Erkenov, and de Zeeuw has moved his stack back up to about 160,000.