Julian Herold and Grudi Grudev have just exchanged spots in the chip rankings after Grudev hit a straight while Herold was barrelling into him. Herold wasted nearly 70,000 in the hand while Toni Judet is cruising over at his table and is now up to 289,000.
The Day 1a chip leader Julian Herold has just eliminated another player and now has 200,000. Herold came from behind to hit a flush against his unknown opponents top pair after all the money went in on the turn.
McLean Karr opened to 2,300 from middle position and Ioannis Taramas made it 5,200 on the button. Karr then four-bet to 12,800 and Taramas made the call to see a flop which both players checked.
Karr fired out 9,700 on the turn and Taramas made the call to see the river. This time Karr bet just 5,300 and Taramas made the call.
Karr showed but Taramas flipped for a backdoored two pair.
Karr, "Why are you calling preflop? I know you're bluffing."
Taramas responded, "Why are you four-betting ace-ten out of position?"
Peter Akery has just doubled up through Andrzej Kwiatkowski. It was an all-in encounter with Akery holding and Kwiatkowski holding . The board was and Kwiatkowski was left with a mere 1.4k chips.
"OMG! I would have hit quad sixes!" Shouted Joe Elpayaa
In the next hand Kwiatkowski moved his 1.4k over the line. Carlos Lopez was rolling a fag while making it 2,900 to play and Joe Elpayaa called in the small blind. The next player to act was Ioannis Papadopoylos in the big blind and he raised it up to 11,000. Lopez went and smoked his fag and Elpayaa also folded leaving the pair heads up.