Dan Shak opened the action from late position and call a 57,000 shove from Kamal Choraria. The blinds folded and the cards were on their backs. Skack had versus the of Choraria much to the surprise of the table.
The board ran out and Choraria had his double up. Shack didn’t look too happy and he was even less impressed when Choraria told the table, “I misread my hand. I thought I had queens. I turned it over and what the f.”
On a flop of , Christian Grundtvig was all in with against Robin Ylitalo's , the offered a few chop ous but the was all Ylitalo's and he eliminated Grundtvig as a result.
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Gianluca Speranza pushed all in for his remaining 54,500 from the hijack, and Mikhail Korotkikh on the button made the call. Both blinds folded, and Speranza and Korotkikh opened their hand.
Speranza:
Korotkikh:
The consisted of mainly low cards, but none of 'em helped Speranza. The Italian player made his exit, Korotkikh is back to the stack he about started with today.
Grzegorz Mikielewicz discovered poker in the back room of a bowling alley in Poland. He used to play semi-professionally for a number of years and now he is a member of PokerStars Team Online. Martin Finger is at his table and was quizzing him about being the time he bowled the perfect game and how he did it.
Mikielewicz said it was analogous to poker. You just keep trying to do the best you can each time over and over again and eventually it can come off; variance basically. In bowling it also helps to have the best equipment as the house bowls won’t impart the spin needed to hit the sweet spot on the pins. “Ah, so you cheated?” Finger joked.
On the turn of an board, Davidi Kitai bet 33,000 before Josh Prager raised to 75,000. Kitai thought briefly and made the call to see the on the river. The Belgian led out again for another 33,000 and Prager quickly folded, Kitai showed for a missed double gutshot
2 Months 2 Million star Emil Patel has just eliminated Frenchman Ludovic Riehl.
Riehl pushed before the flop from the cutoff holding , and Patel reshoved from the small blind with .
Patel flopped an eight, though left his opponent not drawing dead just yet: . The on the turn and on the river didn't let Riehl come from behind though, and he left the tournament stage.
Yves Boschetti has been knocked out by Piotr Sowinski, it looked as though all the money went in on a flop. Boschetti turned over but Sowinski flipped and won after the turn and river.
Dan Shak opened for 11,000 and called a 46,000 shove from Helge Pedersen. Shak’s faced off against the of Pederson.
A run out of again saw queens on the flop put a dent in Shak’s stack and Pedersen doubled his stack. Pedersen felt obliged to defend his shove and Shak agreed neither of them did anything wrong in the hand. Shak has though increased his stack since the last time we checked in with him.
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versus the 
of Choraria much to the surprise of the table.
and Choraria had his double up. Shack didn’t look too happy and he was even less impressed when Choraria told the table, “I misread my hand. I thought I had queens. I turned it over and what the f.”
but ran into Ismael Bojang's 
, the 
offered a few chop ous but the 
was all Ylitalo's and he eliminated Grundtvig as a result.
on the river. The Belgian led out again for another 33,000 and Prager quickly folded, Kitai showed 
for a missed double gutshot
.
on the river didn't let Riehl come from behind though, and he left the tournament stage.
flop. Boschetti turned over 
and won after the 
river.
faced off against the 
of Pederson.
again saw queens on the flop put a dent in Shak’s stack and Pedersen doubled his stack. Pedersen felt obliged to defend his shove and Shak agreed neither of them did anything wrong in the hand. Shak has though increased his stack since the last time we checked in with him.