Three players were in the hand on the flop; soon there were only two as Leo Fernandez went all in from the big blind and Dag Palovic reshoved for just a little more. Josef Bachar folded, showing them the .
"Aces?" said Fernandez to Palovic.
Fernandez:
Palovic:
"I want a deuce or a four, immediately," said the extremely cheerful Palovic. Ask, and ye shall receive.
Turn:
River:
The Argentinian hit the rail. Meanwhile his fellow Team PokerStars Pro is up to 460,000 and giggling.
Michael Friedrich has doubled up to 180,000 with . As if it wasn't good enough to get them in the small blind vs. only the big blind, when the big blind Juan Maceiras held , he went and flopped a set: and turned quads: for good measure.
The pot looked like around 130,00 when we arrived there on the flop. Torsten Brinkmann bet out 68,000, and after a few moments Marco Leonzio announced all in.
Snap-call.
Leonzio: for a pair and a flush draw
Brinkmann: for a set
River:
Leonzio's rivered two pair wasn't enough to save him and he headed dejectedly to the rail. Brinkmann meanwhile is up to around 1.3 million.
A Russian civil war broke out as Vasily Fursov and Andrey Danilyuk got the chips in preflop - but a truce was soon declared as they both flipped over . The board ran out a flush-free and they amicably chopped it up.
Ivan Freitez opened to 26,000 UTG, Markus Ristola quickly reraised from UTG+1 to 49,000 and it didn't take long for Victor Ramdin to cold 4-bet to 100,000 with about 350,000 behind.
It was passed back to Freitez who quickly moved all in to cover, Ristola snap-folded but Ramdin tanked...
"You've got it?...It's hard to fold this...I don't think it's possible..."
After several minutes, Ramdin asked that old chesnut, "Will you show if I fold?"
"I will show if you show," replied Freitez. Ramdin declared he had folded and Freitez turned over , Ramdin put his cards into the muck and everyone asked if he had kings. The Team PokerStars Pro reconsidered and withdrew his from the muck to admit that yes, he had made a mistake in folding.
That middle table has seen some awesome flops today. Ted Forrest, with 38,000 only, was all in preflop with on the cutoff (it had folded to him) and button Erik van den Berg rehoved with . The blinds folded, and they ran the board favourably for the smaller pair: .......
Van den Berg's in a bit of trouble himself now, with 175,000 remaining.
Tamas Lendavai has doubled up, flopping a set with on a board vs. Ted Forrest holding . The fives held on the turn and river, giving Lendavai over 400,000 while knocking Forrest down to a tenth that stack!
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flop; soon there were only two as Leo Fernandez went all in from the big blind and Dag Palovic reshoved for just a little more. Josef Bachar folded, showing them the 
.
. As if it wasn't good enough to get them in the small blind vs. only the big blind, when the big blind Juan Maceiras held 
, he went and flopped a set: 
and turned quads: 
for good measure.
flop. Torsten Brinkmann bet out 68,000, and after a few moments Marco Leonzio announced all in.
. The board ran out a flush-free 
from the muck to admit that yes, he had made a mistake in folding.
on the cutoff (it had folded to him) and button Erik van den Berg rehoved with 
. The blinds folded, and they ran the board favourably for the smaller pair: 
...
...
on a 
. The fives held on the 
, Sunar flopping the nut straight to bust the Portuguese player.
