On the three-way flop of , James Akenhead and Jorryt van Hoof checked out of the blinds. Sergey Sergeev bet 775 from the cutoff and just Akenhead called. On the turn, both players checked and Akenhead also checked the on the river. Sergeev bet 1,200 and that was enough to force a fold.
Is has not been going well at all so far for Iliodoros Kamatakis, and the Greek just paid off George Petten on the river of a board reading .
"Will you show if I fold?" Kamatakis asked, facing a bet of 4,000 into a board of 5,150. "I never show," Petten replied. After further consideration Kamatakis said "I think you have a flush," but the Greek couldn't find a fold and called. Petten turned over the for the flush, leaving Kamatakis with less than one third of the starting stack.
Joining the action on the turn, Marko Popovic bet 3,500 and Ferdinand Le Pichon called. The appeared on the river and Popovic waved over to his opponent to see the stack. Le Pichon obliged and revealed around 15,000 left. Popovic bet 10,000 and the Frenchman gave it some thought, then folded with the words "nice bluff."
The field is sooner or later closing in on 100 entries and among those to take their seats towards the end of the previous level were Konstantinos Nanos, Roman Korenev, Dmitry Yurasov and Nariman Yaghmai.
On the turn, Orpen Kisacikoglu bet 1,500 out of the big blind and Florin Minea called. Mahmood Rasheed on the button raised to 3,500 and both opponents called. The appeared on the river and action was checked to rasheed. He bet 10,000 and both opponents folded.
"Should I show one?" Rasheed asked and Orpen turned away, didn't want to see any of it. Rasheed opted to show both, the for quad queens.
The tables are slowly filling up. A couple of good Omaha players just walked in.
Anthony Zinno was the winner of last years €5,300 Pot Limit Omaha event here in Malta. Vincent van der Fluit won a WSOP bracelet in Pot Limit Omaha back in 2012.
With already 13,000 chips in the middle and the board reading , Stephan Zesiger made a bet of 11,000. That was half of his remaining stack.
The action was on Ireland's Mahmood Rasheed, who tanked for around a minute before making the call. Zesiger showed . He thought his full house was enough to take down the pot, but Rasheed slammed his for eights full of kings.
His bigger full house gave him the win and Zesiger was confused about the river action.
"You scared me", was Rasheed explanation.
"What would you be scared of", the Swiss replied.
"Well, you could have slowplayed kings."
Then, Martin Kozlov laughed and jumped in the conversation as well: "you can never be too careful."
Rasheed was involved in the next hand as well. This time he check-called a 1,800 -bet of Orpen Kisacikoglu on a . He looked at his opponent and started speeching again: "I'm a mad man, stay away from me", he told Kisacikoglu.
Both checked the river and Rasheed took down the pot with .
According to the screens, the field has grown to 74 entries and among those to take their seats recently were also Pierre Neuville, Justin "Boosted J" Smith 'Boosted and Ben Heath. The latter is sitting next to Caitlin Hall and Michael Ho.
Charlie Carrel has taken a seat next to Paul Newey, and both Brits know each other well from the various High Roller tournaments.
Joining the action on the turn, [Removed:155] bet 625 out of the big blind and two opponents including George Petten called. The fell on the river and Brand bet 1,900. The first opponent folded, but Petten called. Brand showed for trips sixes and Petten mucked.