With about 14,000 in the middle and the board showing , Antoine Saout checked and the action was on his lone opponent, Adrian Mateos.
Just last week the 18-year-old Mateos became the youngest champ ever on the Estrellas Poker Tour in Madrid by winning the €1,100 buy-in Main Event and claiming a cool €606,720 first prize. The Spaniard considered for a moment, then pushed out a bet of 11,050.
The action back on Saout, the Frenchman thought about a half-minute before calling, and Mateos swiftly tabled his for quad kings. Saout nodded and mucked, and Mateos scooped the pot.
In a poker world dominated by stories of five-bet bluffs and other such crazy plays, it is easy to forget that the simplest move is often the best to make. David Kilmartin hasn't forgotten this as it just helped him win a pot uncontested.
Kilmartin opened with a raise to 1,000 from under the gun and both blinds, Mario Nagel (small blind) and Jed Derkaoui (big blind) called. The flop was checked by Nagel, then by Derkaoui but Kilmartin reached for chips and made a 1,125 continuation bet. Nagel instantly folded, which is exactly what Derkaoui did immediately afterwards.
Following a middle position raise to 1,050 and calls from both Zimnan Ziyard sitting one seat over and Francois Scapula in the cutoff, David Vamplew reraised his entire stack from the big blind for 9,075 total, scattering all but Scapula.
Scapula paused, then asked the dealer to pull in the chips as he considered what to do. Finally he called. Vamplew tabled , then winced at the sight of Scapula's .
Vamplew's wince turned into a resigned grin as the flop came , the turn , and the river , thus giving Scapula a full house and sending Vamplew to the rail.
After the Scotsman left, Ziyard informed the table of Vamplew's recent successes at Prague where he won a WPT Prague side event and took second in an EPT Prague side event back in December. "Ah, then we shouldn't feel so bad," responded another player with a nod toward Vamplew's empty seat.
Harry Loria raised to 1,200 preflop and Ismael Bojang flat-called in the next seat down before Adrian Mateos squeezed to 4,100 from the big blind. Loria then four-bet to 11,200 but then suddenly Bojang announced all in. Mateos quickly folded and Loria tanked for about 10 seconds before calling.
Loria:
Bojang:
The board came - no help for Loria who was eliminated as Bojang increased his stack to over the 100,000 mark.
With the board showing and about 10,000 in the middle, a short-stacked Arnaud Mattern pushed all in for his last 9,000 or so and after a lengthy tank Massimo Di Cicco finally folded.
Sergii Baranov’s style came back to bite him in the backside in a hand just before dinner break. Sebastian Gohr took half his stack and was actually a little lucky to do so.
John Eames opened to 900 from under the gun and was called in two spots before Gohr three-bet to 3,200 off the button. Baranov (cut-off) was the only player to call to see the flop fall. Gohr continued for 3,400 and Baranov check-called.
The turn came and Baranov check-raised his opponent’s 8,500 bet up to 20,000. Call. On the river Baranov fired another 20,000 and Gohr made the call. The Ukrainian opened but was rivered by his German opponent’s .
Players have reached the end of Level 6 and are leaving for their one-hour dinner break. When they return they'll play two more 75-minute levels before Day 1a concludes.
, Antoine Saout checked and the action was on his lone opponent, Adrian Mateos.
for quad kings. Saout nodded and mucked, and Mateos scooped the pot.
flop was checked by Nagel, then by Derkaoui but Kilmartin reached for chips and made a 1,125 continuation bet. Nagel instantly folded, which is exactly what Derkaoui did immediately afterwards.
, then winced at the sight of Scapula's 
.
, the turn 
, and the river 
and about 10,000 in the middle, a short-stacked Arnaud Mattern pushed all in for his last 9,000 or so and after a lengthy tank Massimo Di Cicco finally folded.
flop fall. Gohr continued for 3,400 and Baranov check-called.
and Baranov check-raised his opponent’s 8,500 bet up to 20,000. Call. On the 
river Baranov fired another 20,000 and Gohr made the call. The Ukrainian opened 
but was rivered by his German opponent’s 
.
