From the hijack Dmitry Grinenko set the price to play at 900 and the cutoff, Germany's Andre Klebanov made the call. The button and small blind folded but Scott Baumstein raised it up to 2,900 from the big blind.
With the action back on Grinenko he four-bet to 5,500 folding out Klebanov but Baumstein was not done with this hand by any stretch of the imagination. Instead he restacked all of his chips and moved in for 16,050. Grinenko took a long, hard look at his cards before sending them towards the muck.
Konstantin Puchkov is a player who seems to have the same expression whatever is happening to him at the table. He is Russian and they have more ice in their veins than the Scandies do. He just lost a pot to drop little, but you'd never know just by looking at him.
He was in the big blind and defended a button raise to 850 from Santiago Nadal. The flop fell and Puchkov check-called a 800 continuation bet from the Mexican before both checked the turn. The river saw Puchkov go back into check-call mode. The bet from Nadal was 3,025 and Puchkov mucked upon seeing .
Kevin Vandersmissen is never one to shy away from an opponent, even if that opponent is the current chip leader. In a hand just now, which we joined on the flop, Canadian Sam Chartier checked from the UTG+1 seat and then called when Vandersmissen fired a bet of 2,525 three seats to his left.
The dealer placed the onto the turn and Chartier check-called again, this time an increase bet of 4,550. But when the river was the both players tapped the table and checked.
Vandersmissen turned over and Chartier could not beat that and his hand found its way to the muck. The Belgian Irish Open champion now has 46,200 whilst Chartier slips slightly to "just" 103,000.
Anton Wigg is up to 50,000 after raising his button and betting flop and turn. The board read and the big blind called two bets before he folded to Wigg's 5,250 turn bet.
Dermot Blain was busying trying to build a stack that was heading south. We witnessed him successfully squeeze a 700 raise and call to 3,400 (out of a 20k stack), but by the time we left the room his media card was in the pile of those players eliminated.
Bryan Piccioli and Ludovic Lacay are both sat at the same table and trying to make things happen from early position. Piccioli raised from under the gun and took the blinds and antes before folding his cards high up into the air. Lacay thought he saw a king but the American insisted he had pocket tens. The next hand saw Lacay raise but quickly fold to a three-bet. He's wearing new headphones and hope they will bring him more luck than his last "retro" pair.
At the very least, Scott Seiver can drown his bust-out sorrows in his stolen birthday gift. We chatted with him on the last break (before he bust out) about his roller-coaster of a day, and his recent celebrations in Vienna.
Sometimes at the poker table the Poker Gods decide to reward crazy play and this was one of those times.
Marc Möbius open-limped from late position in rather unconventional fashion and the action folded to Joel Benzinou in the small blind and he raised to 1,000. With the action back on Möbius he made it 2,900 to play only to see Benzinou click it back to 5,600. Möbius called and the flop came down . Benzinou checked, Möbius bet 4,400, Benzinou then shoved and Möbius instantly called.
Benzinou:
Möbius:
Slightly unorthodox preflop play we're sure you'll agree but it was rewarded after the turn was the and the river the , the river completing Möbius' flush! That's how you do it folks.
From under the gun Conrad Schormann set the price to play at 700 but it was soon increased to 2,600 when Carl Carlsson, next to act, three-bet to 2,600. Schormann called and the pair shared a flop. Despite the three-bet preflop Carlsson did not pull the trigger when Schormann checked to him and he then folded when Schormann bet 3,000 when the appeared on the turn.
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and Puchkov check-called a 800 continuation bet from the Mexican before both checked the 
turn. The river saw Puchkov go back into check-call mode. The bet from Nadal was 3,025 and Puchkov mucked upon seeing 
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flop, Canadian Sam Chartier checked from the UTG+1 seat and then called when Vandersmissen fired a bet of 2,525 three seats to his left.
onto the turn and Chartier check-called again, this time an increase bet of 4,550. But when the river was the 
both players tapped the table and checked.
and Chartier could not beat that and his hand found its way to the muck. The Belgian Irish Open champion now has 46,200 whilst Chartier slips slightly to "just" 103,000.
and the big blind called two bets before he folded to Wigg's 5,250 turn bet.
. Benzinou checked, Möbius bet 4,400, Benzinou then shoved and Möbius instantly called.
and the river the 
, the river completing Möbius' flush! That's how you do it folks.
flop. Despite the three-bet preflop Carlsson did not pull the trigger when Schormann checked to him and he then folded when Schormann bet 3,000 when the 
appeared on the turn.
