Ruslan Prydryk has just doubled up through his fellow countryman, Mikhail Lakhitov to boost his stack to 88,000.
On a board reading , Prydryk checked then moved all in for 39,200 when Lakhitov bet 8,000 from the button. After around a minute of riffling his chips, he shrugged his shoulders and made the call.
Lakhitov: - for a pair of queens
Prydryk: - for an unlikely two pair
The river was the , keeping Prydryk in front and increasing his stack to 88,000
John Eames has been on a bit of reraising spree - we witnessed him reraising from the button to a raise from Roberto Romanello, and then next hand he reraised from the cutoff to a raise from Michael Anthony Moretto. Both times his opponents folded, and Eames looked quietly smug as he upped his stack to around 150,000.
Every time I have passed Opria Cristea's table, and he has been involved in a pot, it's been involvement of the all-in preflop kind - he arrived today as a short stack and was still only on 30,000 when he finally got his break.
Two hands prior to this, he'd moved in when it passed to him on the cutoff, and patiently waited while big blind Matt Affleck decided whether or not to take him on. It was 26,000 to call, and Affleck admitted, "It's always good when you don't get snap-called..." before folding.
Cristea did get snap-called by Manuel Bevand though. This second shove came over Bevand's 5k raise and his now 30,500 was at risk with vs. the Frenchman's . It held; he's up to 64,000.
John Eames has dropped back down to 130,000 as his fell foul of Zsolt Soros' . The board ran out ; after the flop Soros repeatedly demanded another five of the dealer, who obliged on the river. Soros doubled to 72,000.
Manuel Bevand has now turned to shoving following his earlier misfortune; most recently he shoved from the cutoff after Matt Affleck had raised in early position and Cengiz Ulusu had called. Affleck folded fairly swiftly, but Ulusu gave Bevand a stern look and tanked up for a while before conceding.
They say in order to win poker tournaments you need a bit of luck, well if that is the case pile your money on Mikhail Shakhnovich as he has just had a huge slice of luck.
The action folded around to him in the cutoff and he moved all in for 49,600, yes that's right 25 big blinds. Marvin Rettemaier, on the button, looked like he wanted to call but couldn't pull the trigger immediately, but eventually did call. Usually that would be the end of the action but Johan Berg in the small blind called off his remaining 35,000 or so chip and it was a three way all in, with Rettemaier covering both players.
Berg:
Rettemaier:
Shakhnovich:
The dealer tapped the table, burned a card and dealt the flop.
Flop: - BOOM! Shakhnovich hits gin as he goes from having 11% equity to being a 75% favourite.
Turn: - Both Berg and Rettemaier are drawing extremely thinly
River: - No full house for anyone so Shakhnovich almost triples up, Berg busts and Rettemaier is crippled. What a hand!
The last elimination of the last level saw Josh Prager point out the fault of the buster even as he saw his had been crushed by the turn and he was not going to make it to level 13. The Unnamed Player, who'd pocketed his ID card and walked off (understandably) when eliminated, had checked a flop, which turned out to be disastrous for him - his sole opponent Prager turned a straight with the and bet 16k, calling immediately when Unnamed Player moved all in. Prager showed and proceeded to gloat.
"Drawing dead! It's so nice... drawing dead to the river. You shouldn't have checked!" He was now addressing a retreating back so he turned his attention to the remaining players at the table, none of whom actually said anything.
"He shouldn't have checked that flop. I thought he might turn up something nice like jack-queen. You don't play like Rafa You ask, Rafa say you played it badly.*"
*Unclear exactly what was going on here, that's just what it sounded like.
Probably coincidentally, tablemate Jeffrey Hakim piped up suddenly, addressing the floor man: "You breaking the table now?" Indeed he was.
, Prydryk checked then moved all in for 39,200 when Lakhitov bet 8,000 from the button. After around a minute of riffling his chips, he shrugged his shoulders and made the call.
- for a pair of queens
- for an unlikely two pair
, keeping Prydryk in front and increasing his stack to 88,000![[user46392]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
vs. the Frenchman's 
. It held; he's up to 64,000.
fell foul of Zsolt Soros' 
. The board ran out 
; after the flop Soros repeatedly demanded another five of the dealer, who obliged on the river. Soros doubled to 72,000.
- BOOM! Shakhnovich hits gin as he goes from having 11% equity to being a 75% favourite.
- Both Berg and Rettemaier are drawing extremely thinly
- No full house for anyone so Shakhnovich almost triples up, Berg busts and Rettemaier is crippled. What a hand!
and bet 16k, calling immediately when Unnamed Player moved all in. Prager showed 