A player in early position opened to 1,800, and Dmitry Stelmak made a reraise to 4,100 in the next seat over. John Duthie called from the big blind, and the third player called the remainder to go three-handed to the flop.
It came , and the action checked around. The on the turn drew two more checks to Stelmak, and he slid out a delayed continuation bet of 8,500. Duthie called quickly while the third man ducked out, and it was heads up to the river. Duthie checked again, and Stelmak took just a minute to think. He looked like he wanted to bet, but he eventually just smirked and checked behind.
Duthie tabled , and Stelmak flipped over the winning to take the pot and move his way up to about 75,000.
We joined the far table just in time to see Humberto Brenes all in before the flop with his short stack and a marginal . He was called down by an unknown player on the button, said player tabling the crushing .
The board ran , and the shark has been harpooned outta here.
We're conspicuously missing one Vanessa Rousso, and she is nowhere to be found. We missed the hand that sealed her fate, but the defending champion of this event has been eliminated here on Day 1.
On a flop of , we joined the hand as Luke Schwartz put out a bet of 6,500. Haralabos Voulgaris was his lone opponent, and Voulgaris tank-shoved all in for his final 33,200 chips.
"Good luck, sir," Schwartz said, though he sat in the tank for another minute or so. Finally, he double-checked the all-in amount and splashed the calling chips into the pot.
Showdown
Schwartz:
Voulgaris:
Schwartz's overpair was ahead, but he had plenty of outs to fade. The on the turn was safe, and so was the river, and that's that for Voulgaris.
Stacking that knockout pot, Schwartz has moved his way to the century mark, or very close to it. Our count has him at about 99,000.
"All in. Call," we heard behind us, so we spun around to see an unknown French player all in for about 20,000 as the board showed . He tabled , and opponent Jon "FatalError" Aguiar shook his head slowly as a big frown crossed his face. Aguiar flipped over , looking set to double up his opponent.
The river locked up the pot, and Aguiar shipped the double to his neighbor, slipping to 32,000 in the process.
When we caught this hand all the chips were in the middle and PokerStars Team Pro Argentina Leo Fernandez had flipped over and Yohan [Removed:250] showed .
The board ran out and the PokerStars Pro found the double up.
We joined this three-handed pot just after the flop action on a board of . We walked up just too late to see the betting action, but whatever it was, it put about 30,000 chips in the pot heading to the turn.
It came the , and all three players checked. On the river, the drew a shove from ElkY, first to act. He was all in for 19,600, and that sent Sorel Mizzi deep into the tank. Mizzi squeezed his out in plain sight so that everyone behind him could have a look at the decision he was facing. After two or three minutes, he decided a fold was in order. The third player in the hand quickly ducked out as well, and that sent the pot (and a near-double-up) over to ElkY. He's back up to his starting stack of 50,000 now.
While the pot was being pushed into his corner, ElkY let Mizzi flip over one of his cards, the . Meh.