The flop was and the two players contesting the pot were Brazilian Antonio Luft in the cutoff and Vanessa Selbst on the button.
Luft put out a bet of 2,500, under half pot. Selbst responded with a raise to 5,000. Luft gave a slight shrug and released his cards. Slebst looks in the mood to generate some early action here today.
Jyri Merivirta raised preflop and Walter Buss called one seat over in the cutoff. On the board the Finn fired on the flop, turn (9,000) and river (16,500 all in) to get called down by Buss. The Belgian reluctantly paid the final barrel with only 4,000 chips more and the but Merivirta had that beat with the .
Despite an early double up, Oleg Lichii, who qualified for this event through a PokerTracker promotion, has just been eliminated. We came to the table when the cards were almost rushed away and we just saw him leaving his seat with the in front of him. Viatcheslav Ortynskiy had the jacks and the board saw the chips going in on the turn or river.
Now what does PokerTracker say about the probability of the best starting hand getting cracked?
Italian Francesco Moro opened for 2,100 from early position and was called by Antonio Luft in the small blind and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst in the big blind.
They saw a flop of . The blinds checked and Moro won the pot with a bet of 4,000. He showed his opponents . Moro then won the next pot with an open to 2,000 picking up the blinds and antes.
The story of Oleg Lichii is getting better and better. If you haven't read the back story yet, head over to the PokerStarsBlog.com because it's worth it.
Lichii just doubled up. In the first hand of the day he shoved over Jan Bendik's open raise and took it down when everyone folded. Minutes later he did receive a full double up, courtesy of that same Bendik.
In a battle of the blinds Lichii had in the big blind. Jan Bendik in the small blind had and they both got their chips in before the flop.
The board didn't improve Bendik's hand enough, and he had to forfeit 21,400 in chips to his neighbor from Moldavia.
Steve O'Dwyer opened the action with a raise to 2,100 and called the three-bet from Luca Moschitta to 5,100. On the flop he check-folded to a 3,200 bet and was left with less than 15,000 chips. He then raised to 2,000 shortly after but got no caller.
One table over, Nacho Barbero raised to 1,700 and folded to the all in of his table neighbor in the small blind. He folded the and was shown the from his opponent.
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