In the previous hand, Vladimir Troyanovskiy successfully four-bet to 43,000 against Ole Schemion to force a fold and then opened to 5,000 right after. Bertrand Grospellier in the cutoff and Nariman Yaghmai on the button called and the action headed three-ways to the flop of .
Troyanovskiy continued for 10,000 and both his opponents called before the appeared on the turn. The Russian now checked and Grospellier bet 24,000. Only Yaghmai called, then the on the river paired the board. Grospellier checked and Yaghmai checked behind to muck once the Frenchman showed him for the ten-high straight.
Konstantin Uspenskiy limped in from the small blind and the defending champion of this very event, Steve O'Dwyer, raised to 8,400 in the big blind. Uspenskiy called and checked the flop of . O'Dwyer bet 9,500 and Uspenskiy then check-raised to 35,000 in order to force a fold from O'Dwyer.
Joining the action on the flop, Jason Wheeler bet 7,500 in the hijack and Martin Kabrhel called in the cutoff. The fell on the turn and Wheeler now made it 12,500 to go, again Kabrhel called.
After the river, Wheeler fired a third barrel worth 21,000. While Kabrhel was sent into the think tank, Jean-Noel Thorel arrived at the table and took the empty seat between the duo. Kabrhel then called and Wheeler table . Kabrhel looked at his cards again, even asked the dealer "what is it, a pair of sixes?" and then mucked. While Wheeler stacked the profit with a grin on the face, Kabrhel added a "well played" and received a "thank you" as reply.
Daniel Dvoress was first to act and opened for 6,000. Alexandros Kolonias called from the button, Orpen Kisacikoglu called from the big blind.
Kisacikoglu checked on and Dvoress bet 8,000. Kolonias folded, Kisacikoglu called.
The hit the turn and Kisacikoglu checked again. Dvoress bet 35,000 and Kisacikoglu called once more.
With the completing the board, Kisacikoglu checked for the third time. Dvoress bet 95,000 and Kisacikoglu went deep into the tank. Several minutes had passed before someone at the table called the clock. Before the floor had even shown up, Kisacikoglu mucked his hand.
Dvoress showed with a big grin and started stacking.
Nick Petrangelo made it 5,400 to go and Anthony Zinno three-bet to 16,000 from the button. The action folded back to Petrangelo, who four-bet to 42,000 to claim the pot without any further betting action.
Hand 2
One hand later, Patrick Leonard raised to 5,200 in the hijack and Sergey Lebedev three-bet to 15,000 on the button. Leonard called and the duo checked the flop and the turn. Leonard then bet the river for 25,000 and Lebedev stared back for a good minute or two before sending his cards into the muck.
After Mustapha Kanit had recently taken a seat, Leon Tsoukernik just followed suit. Tsoukernik owns the King's Casino in Rozvadov near the border to Germany. The biggest card room in Europe regularly hosts big festivals and will be the home for the World Series of Poker Europe for the coming years.
From middle position, Koray Aldemir raised to 6,000. His neighbor Jason Wheeler was the only caller.
Aldemir checked on and called as Wheeler bet 9,000. Both checked the on the turn before the dealer put the on the table to complete the board. Aldemir checked again, and called the 26,700 bet that followed.