Charles Chattha got moved to the feature table and shoved in the first hand with pocket kings for 36,000, a player called on the button with jacks and the player in the small blind found pocket aces. The jacks won it all.
Amir Mozaffarian was all in with on a flop of and got called by . The turn changed nothing, but a king on the river gave Dimitar Yosifov the better pair.
Other big names to hit the rail include Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen, Dragan Kostic, Sam Cohen, EPT Vienna champion Oleksii Khoroshenin and Stephen Chidwick, who finished third in the Super High Roller here in Prague.
Within a matter of only 10 minutes according to his Twitter feed, Quentin Lecomte benefited from a fortunate setup in pocket queens versus pocket jacks and boosted his stack all the way up to 200,000 in chips.
Davidi Kitai opened the action and was called by Vladimir Troyanovskiy so it went heads up to a flop of .
Kitai continuation bet for 2,800 and called a raise of 8,500 from Troyanovskiy. The turn and river were checked and when Kitai indicated he didn’t have so much as pair Troyanovskiy showed his which took the pot.
The flop was and Ghanim Dashti in the big blind check-called a bet of 4,500 from Yann Dion.
The turn card was checked and on the river Dashti led out for 12,000. Dion made the call to see Dashti turn over and his prompted a, “Good call.” from Dashti.
Dennis Smit had a pretty ok Day 1, and so far on Day 2 things are going well again. Smit told us that he didn't have any big showdowns yet today, but he did gather lots of chips.
In one of the bigger hands his three bet got four bet by Gaëlle Baumann and Smit made the call. They checked a board till the river, where Smit's bet eventually went uncalled.
Another big pot was a three bet pot where Smit bet every street on . His opponent called pre flop, flop and turn, but folded to Smit's river bet.
Dutch pro Ruben Visser has had another great year in his lengthy poker career with winning the Master Classics of Poker Main Event in Amsterdam, but he also graduated University. We caught up with him and talked about everything that happened in his life in the last 12 months.
We arrived at the table with Quentin Lecomte betting out 9,600 from the button and facing a re-raise to 22,000 from Andreas Berggren in the blinds. He waited for a minute before moving all in for 64,900 and was snap called.
Lecomte:
Berggren:
It was happy times for Lecomte as the board ran out to secure him the win with the over pair.
Shannon Shorr was rearranging his chip stack and needed some time for that, he had a lot of chips. Shorr was about 200,000 richer than we thought he was, so we asked if we missed anything big.
Shorr told us that he recently eliminated his right neighbor. They got in 145,000 each where Shorr had the advantage holding pocket aces. His opponent had pocket queens and couldn't catch up.
It was only later that we learned the suits and board of the hand. Shorr had and was up against . The board came and Shorr's opponent got eliminated.
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on a flop of 
and got called by 
. The 
.
and river 
were checked and when Kitai indicated he didn’t have so much as pair Troyanovskiy showed his 
which took the pot.
and Ghanim Dashti in the big blind check-called a bet of 4,500 from Yann Dion.
was checked and on the river 
Dashti led out for 12,000. Dion made the call to see Dashti turn over 
and his 
prompted a, “Good call.” from Dashti.
board till the river, where Smit's bet eventually went uncalled.
. His opponent called pre flop, flop and turn, but folded to Smit's river bet.
to secure him the win with the over pair.
and was up against 
and Shorr's opponent got eliminated.
