Directly after tripling up, Rocco Palumbo open-shoved for 370,000. Behzad Ahadpour reshoved all in from the small blind to put Palumbo again at risk.
Rocco Palumbo:
Behzad Ahadpour:
Slowly, the dealer fanned out the perfect flop for Palumbo: !
"Oh my God!," gasped Ahadpour, who saw his chance to win the hand diminish just like that. The on the turn sealed it, making the on the river meaningless. Palumbo went from 100,000 to 800,000 in the course of two hands.
From the hijack, Diego Zeiter pushed all in for 131,000. Big blind Jakub Michalak called with but was trailing Zeiter's . The board ran out and Zeiter doubled up.
The next hand, he was under the gun and moved all in again, this time for 302,000. Cutoff Rocco Palumbo called all in for 100,000 exactly and button Adrian Mateos isolated all in over the top for 375,000. Both blinds released.
Rocco Palumbo:
Adrian Mateos:
Diego Zeiter:
The board ran out and Palumbo won the main pot while Mateos grabbed the side pot.
He was the chipleader of the tournament just minutes ago, just slipping into what must have second place moments before the final hand. And now, it's all gone and one player has a truly massive stack.
Charlie Carrel was first to act and raised to 50,000. Big blind Pasquale Grimaldi called and the two both checked on . So far, nothing exciting was happening.
The hit the turn which made Grimaldi bet out 80,000. Carrel raised to, what we believe was, 200,000. Grimaldi answered with a shove and Carrel called all in for 976,000 total. Grimaldi had just 14,000 more than that and was in big trouble!
Pasquale Grimaldi:
Charlie Carrel:
There wasn't a card Grimaldi could hit, so no big show was made of the completing the board.
Grimaldi was all in blind from the small blind the next hand. As everyone folded, it was once again Carrel, now the big blind, he was facing.
Pasquale Grimaldi:
Charlie Carrel:
Grimaldi was in the lead but the decided otherwise. Grimaldi was the official bubble of the €10,300 Single-Day High Roller while Carrel was still busy stacking the biggest stack in the room.
While Behzad Ahadpour promised the table he would only play aces, kings, queens and ace-king (later ace-queen was also included), he has been raising just about every hand. The rest of the table is quick to fold most of the times.
Just now, Scott Seiver did call a raise, only to check on a flop of . Ahadpour pushed all in for 6 times the pot and showed the after Seiver folded. So it's safe to say Ahadpour is not playing just big cards. The table is laughing just about constantly, everyone is entertained by the antics of Ahadpour with Scott Seiver as his new best friend.
Still 12 players, still bubble, still hand for hand.