Roman Makhlin shoved from the small blind and the big blind didn't fancy it; he shoved from the button next hand as well and again, got no takers.
He didn't bother with the cutoff, but the hand after that he pushed for the third and final time from the hijack. This time Kent Lundmark in the cutoff made the call.
Makhlin:
Lundmark:
Board:
With that, we're down to 16 players and it's time for a redraw.
It folded around to Jesus Cortes Lizano in the small blind, who went all in. Georgios Skotadis thought about only briefly before calling.
Lizano:
Skotadis:
"Was it a tough call?" asked Lizano, clearly thinking that Skotadis' pause had been a kind of slowroll.
"You know, I don't like this situation," Skotadis told him, "If it's 50-50."
It wasn't 50-50, but sometimes the worse hand wins.
Board:
"See, was that a tough call for you?" the jocular Skotadis asked Lizano as the latter doubled up with a flush; he was still maintaining that he'd thought that Lizano was pushing with a pair. "You know what, two flips in a row and you're meant to lose one. So yeah, it was a tough call."
Lizano's up to 900,000, Skotadis down to 1.3 million.
Georgios Skotadis makes it 72,000 from the cut off and Kent Lundmark three-bet from the button to the tune of 185,000. Skotadis counted out a huge four-bet and Lundmark shoved all-in - Skotadis called.
Skotadis:
Lundmark:
Skotadis rose to his feet while Lundmark remained motionless in his seat.
The Dealer shuffled the flop and you could see a Queen as he turned the three cards over.
"Vamos!" shouted Skotadis.
Then the flop revealed itself
"Vamos! Vamos!" shouted Skotadis.
The turn and river changed nothing and Skotadis has doubled up.
Spaniard Luis Rufas has just had a touch of fortune after getting his money in drawing very thinly against his French opponent, Candido Gonçalves.
Rufas check-raised all-in on a flop reading an was instantly called by Gonçalves, and with the cards on their backs it was easy to see why.
Rufas: for two pair
Gonçalves: for a flopped straight
Gonçalves looked like a dead cert to eliminate Rafas but the turn was the to give Rufas a full house. No miracle river for Gonçalves and Rufas doubles up to around 640,000 whilst Gonçalves still has close to 2,400,000
Roman Makhlin opened from the button with a raise of 61,000 and Ognjen Sekularac three-bet from the Big Blind to 117,000 and Makhlin folded. Sekularac turned over for the bluff.
"Revenge for the 72 hand earlier?" Said Shander de Vries
Ognjen Sekularec has just avoided the pocket aces of Gergios Skotadis, after the Greek gave a little speech regarding his thoughts on Sekularec's home country.
On a flop reading , Skotadis bet 70,000, Sekularec raised to 170,000 prompting Skotadis to exclaim his disappointment in being raised.
"Serbia, Serbia, Serbia. What have you done to me?" said Skotadis, before adding, "I thought people from Belgrade were kind!"
After a couple of minutes he raised all-in, a bet that Sekularec decided was too much to call and he folded.
"I only play aces, kings and ace-king," informed Skotadis as he flipped over to his table mates.
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an was instantly called by Gonçalves, and with the cards on their backs it was easy to see why.
