Straight on Board
An interesting hand developed on Table 9 as three players tangled over a sizable pot. They had reached the turn with the board showing . Anton Wigg on the button, who is a Swedish PokerStars player, bet 1,500 when the other two players in the blinds had checked to him. Small blind Ivan Glushkov called and big blind Andreas Chalkiadakis, an online qualifier from Greece, made a strong move check-raising to 3,225. This didn’t deter the other two players though and they both made the call. The three players saw the river fall the putting a straight on board. Both Glushkov and Chalkiadakis checked and Wigg decided to put them to the test with a bet of 12,850.
Glushkov called fairly quickly but Chalkiadakis took his time and asked to see the stack size of Wigg. Undeterred he too made the call. It was small blind Chalkiadakis who had the best of it though, his giving him a higher straight and neither of his opponents could best him.