Mikhail Georgiev opened to 500 from early position and earned three callers, including Freddy Deeb playing from the hijack seat. The flop came , and it checked to Deeb who fired 350. The player in the cutoff folded, then the big blind check-raised to 800. Both Georgiev and Deeb called.
That check-raise froze the action following the turn and river, with checks following all around on both streets. The big blind then showed and Georgiev .
"Jack-high? Two aces?" said Deeb as he studied his opponents' hands. "Aces are good," he added, mucking his cards.
There are not many better players at building stacks early in a tournament than Michael Tureniec. Holding on to them is a different matter (obviously a lot of exceptions to this) but for now he's heading in the right direction. He seems to be in a lot of pots; nothing new there then.
In one hand he bet-folded to a raise on a flop.
The very next hand he was in the big blind and raised to 800 after four limpers. Not surprisingly all players called to see a flop appear. Tureniec continued for 1,750 and all his opponents mucked. One was actually far more interested in ordering a coffee after he's seen he had missed the flop.
Pierre Neuville just approached us and asked if we knew what the odds were of being dealt a pair of kings and someone at your table being dealt the other two kings. A little Google searching (other search engines are available) shed some light that it is around 6,016/1 that scenario happening.
The reason we are mentioning this is because Neuville was all-in with pocket kings on a seven-high board against Patrick Fortin, who also held "cowboys." The pot was chopped and both players survived.
"I had aces versus aces yesterday too," explained Neuville, "players moan about 30% chances winning, but what are the odds of what I have seen? They must be in the thousands."
Fresh from his victory in the PLO event yesterday, Anton Wigg seems in a good, confident mood. However, the just lost a little ground thanks to Fergal Cawley in a hand that just finished.
Joining the action on a flop, Cawley lead for 400 from middle position and Said Basri called from the seat to Cawley's direct left. To Basri's left was Wigg and he raised to 2,150. Cawley snap-called but the deliberate Basri took a few moments to consider his options before settling on folding being the best.
The turn saw both active players check, but Cawley instantly bet 5,000 upon the arrival of the . Wigg had seen enough and he released his hand.
Mikhail Petrov opened for 350 from middle position and got three callers, including Luke Schwartz playing from the cutoff seat. The flop came and it checked to Petrov who continued for 550. Two players stuck around, including Schwartz. The after the flop Petrov bet 1,525, and this time only Schwartz remained to battle for the pot.
The river then brought the and checks from both players. With a shrug Petrov showed for queen-high. Then Schwartz tabled his . The flush hadn't come for Schwartz on the river, but a pairing four did and he claimed the pot.
Christopher McClung had moved all in for around 12,000 on the river of a boad with Ahmed Abd El Fatah tanking for about two minutes before making the call.
McClung confidently flipped for the turned straight but El Fatah showed a rivered boat to double up to 40,000. McClung dropped to 17,000.