A big hand happened just before the blinds increased.
Rainer Kempe opened to 5,040 from early position before Francisco "VaPaCooler" Benitez three-bet to 14,455 from middle position. Joakim Andersson jammed for 223,596 from the big blind and got a call by Kempe for 83,912. Benitez folded and Andersson and Kempe showed the hands.
Joakim Andersson:
Rainer Kempe:
Kempe was looking good for a double but the board gave Andersson a straight to not only at least temporarily eliminate Kempe but also to take the chip lead.
"xyzpoker" opened for 3,679 from middle position before they called a three-bet to 11,200 by Isaac Haxton from the button.
"xyzpoker" check-called a bet of 6,400 on the flop. before they check-called a bigger bet of 19,600 on the turn. Haxton still had more ammunition as he bet 35,840 with just 151 more left behind when the action was checked to him on the river and got a call.
Haxton won the hand with a set holding to beat his opponent's top pair with .
The $150 million guaranteed GG Spring Festival (GGSF) continues to rocks on with five events (15 tournaments broken out between Low, Medium, and High) on Tuesday, April 6.
This, of course, includes today's $1 million guaranteed GGSF H-15 $10,300 Super Tuesday starting at 8:05 p.m. CEST (2:05 p.m. EDT).
The event is a deep-stacked one-day affair with players starting off with 100,000 in chips, which is good for 200 big blinds. Blinds increase every 15 minutes until the final table is reached after which blinds will increase every 15 hands. The final table blinds will also be pushed back so that the average stack is at least 40 big blinds if the average is less than that before the start.
As is the case in most tournaments at GGPoker, the Super Tuesday will be eight-max until the final table which initially will seat nine players.
Players will have plenty of opportunities to build a huge stack with unlimited re-entries allowed until the 280-minute late registration window closes.
About two hours prior to the start, some of the early entrants included the GGPoker ambassadors Felipe Ramos and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Also registered early were Rainer Kempe, Wiktor Malinowski, Rui Ferreira, Darren Elias, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Jans Arends, Enrico Camosci, David Peters, and Niklas Astedt.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we will be reporting this event from the point cards are virtually in the air to a winner is crowned.