We joined the action in a heads-up pot as the dealer ran out a flop of . Action was on Claudio Pollin, and he continued out with a bet of 1,100. Sam Chariter made a quick call.
The turn brought the and another bet from Pollin, 2,100 this time. After a bit of a pause, Chartier raised to 5,100, and Pollin instantly flicked two yellow chips off his stack for a re-raise to 12,100. That sent Chartier into the tank for about two minutes before he grabbed his chips and moved all in for 16,600. It was just 4,500 more to Pollin, but he clearly did not want to call. Eventually, and reluctantly, he dropped the extra chips into the pot. Cards up, gentlemen:
Chatier:
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Cards up, gentlemen! It took a little more prodding to get Pollin to show his hand. Eventually, he tried to muck them, but the dealer pulled his off the table and flipped it up; he was drawing dead.
The on the river didn't counterfeit the deck, and Chartier's double up is legal and valid. He's shot back to about 38,000 courtesy of that pot.
Right at the end of the level Jesper Hougaard saw his 1,400 bet check-raised on the river of the . The double bracelet winner looked very confused for a moment before he thought for a good five minutes into the break before finally folding face up.
Mikhail Tulchinskiy has lost a relatively hefty pot. We only saw the tail end of it, but the board had an ace, a king and three hearts on it, and Tulchinskiy's opponent was holding for a flush. Tulchinskiy mucked and dropped to 20,000.
A player opened to 450 and Rui Milhomens made the call. Stefan Mattson reraised to 1,650 behind and both players called.
The flop caming and it was checked to Mattson who bet 3,050. The first player folded but Milhomens check-raised to 7,900. Mattson made the call before they both checked the turn.
On the river, Milhomens fired out 11,050 and Mattson tanked before calling with . A good call since Milhomens could only show for a bluff.
With around 5,000 in the pot and three players in the hand by the flop, Marc Naalden (under the gun) bet out 3,700. The gentleman in the cutoff looked at his hole cards and presumably didn't like them as he folded. The gent in the small blind, however, spent some time counting various stacks of chips before flat-calling.
They went heads-up to the turn and Mr. Small Blind instantly announced all in. Naalden grinned broadly and folded.
It's all been going rather swimmingly for Dario Minieri since his slice of good fortune. He just picked up another multiway pot after betting 1,750 on a getting all his opponents to fold.
Meanwhile Laurence "rivermanl" Houghton is having slightly more trouble getting out of the starting blocks. He opened to 500 preflop and fired 650 more on the flop but had to give up when he was instantly check-raised by the big blind to 1,700.