It seems that Johnny Lodden didn't manage to recover from his early bad beat and hit the rail soon after. We're not sure what happened exactly, but we can tell that we saw the Team PokerStars pro stand up from his table and leave the room while the dealer announced: "Seat open table 10!"
Dmitry Grishin opened for 1,600 from middle position only to have Tomasz Cybulski move all in from the cutoff for 16,300. Andrea Torri then moved all in over the top from the big blind, Grishin folded, and the cards were turned up.
Showdown
Torri:
Cybulski:
The flop delivered Torri a pair of aces, but fortunately for Cybulski it also brought a nine to give him a set. The turn gave Cybulski a full house, but Torri was drawing live to either an ace or king on the river. The dealer burned one last time and put out the , a safe card for Cybulski.
We found David Vamplew and an opponent staring at a board of . Vamplew dipped into his stack and came out with a bet of 7,700.
Vamplew's opponent mulled over his decision for over a minute before finally tossing out a call. Vamplew showed and his opponent shot his hand at the muck. By winning this hand, Vamplew has boosted his stack to about 148,000.
Anyone who's played with Artem Litvinov knows that he's a hard man to shake off a hand. Radoslaw Jacek Morawiec just found that out the hard way.
He opened from the hijack and was called by Morawiec in the next seat and Kyle Julius in the big blind.
Morawiec then went on to bet 2,800, 6,600 and 17,100 on a board. Julius folded the flop but Litvinov called all the way down. When Morawiec's river bet was called he snap-mucked meaning Litvinov claimed the pot without showdown.
Roger Hairabedian opened for 3,000 from middle position only to have Flavius Puica move all in from the cutoff for 12,500. Dan O'Brien then moved all in over the top from the big blind for 17,000, and Hairabedian made the call.
Showdown
O'Brien:
Puica:
Hariabedian:
Puica held the worst hand preflop, but the flop delivered him two pair and changed all that. It also gave O'Brien the lead on the smaller side pot. Neither the turn not river changed a thing, and Puica tripled while O'Brien claimed the side pot of approximately 9,000.
We stumbled upon the action with the board reading and approximately 3,500 in the pot. Two players still had cards in their hands and one of them, Andrea Dato bet 1,600. The player on his immediate left was Andrew Frankenberger and he made the call.
The turn brought the and Dato lead again for 2,600 and Frankenberger went along. Dato had only 11,000 left in his stack and it all went in on the river. "That bad?" Frankenberger asked his opponent, but Dato didn't reply. Frankenberger didn't think about it for too long and let go off his hand.
From under the gun, David Benyamine raised all in for 9,400 with the . Action then folded to Jesper Hougaard in the hijack seat, and he made the call. Everyone else folded. Hougaard showed the and was well ahead of the for the at-risk Benyamine.
After the flop of , Benyamine had just fourth and fifth street to come from behind. The turn was the , which gave Benyamine a flush draw, but Hougaard held a higher club. The river was the , and that spelled the end of the line for Benyamine as he was relegated to the rail.
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano had raised from the button with Erik Olofsson making the call from the big blind to see the flop come down . Olofsson checked, and Pagano bet 3,200. Olofsson called.
The turn brought the , and both players checked to see the pair the board on the river. Both players checked again.
Pagano showed just the first, but Olofsson's was the winning hand, and Pagano mucked.