All around the world in less than 80 hours, that may be the title of the new book which includes the casual trips of poker pros. Steve O'Dwyer had just been in Macau a few days ago and came back to Amsterdam very recently. Just now the American with Irish roots took his seat between Ludovic Geilich and Eugene Katchalov.
Pim van Riet was all in for around 10,000 chips and got called by an opponent with . The Dutchman was at risk with and the flop was a great start in order to improve. A spade on the turn locked up the hand, but to make it even more memorable, the popped up on the river to give van Riet a royal flush!
Raoul Refos raised to 800 and picked up four callers. Local player "Bastian" jammed his short stack with the , but Faraz Jaka looked him up with the to see the board run out .
The seat of Piet Bakker was empty, but not for long, and the chips went to Paul Berende. It was a coin flip with the for Berende and Bakker's for a stack of 17,000 chips. Another player at the table had folded ace-king, too, yet Berende got there to claim the chips.
Ludovic Geilich raised and picked up one caller to fire a continuation bet on the flop . Hrazem Aanquich called and both then slowed down as the fell on the turn. The river was no reason either to resume betting and the Scot claimed the chips with for a pair of nines.
Geilich is slightly above starting stack whereas his opponent from the Netherlands should be in the current top five stacks in the room.
Marcel Luske bubbled one of the Main Event satellites a few days ago but was fully expected to participate in the Main Event. However, the "Flying Dutchman" was nowhere to be seen so far. Another familiar face that hasn't showed up yet at all is Lex Veldhuis, which comes as an equal surprise.
Antoine Vranken raised to 1,025 and the player in the small blind squeezed to 2,650. Richard Milne flat-called and Vranken then reraised to 7,750. Only Milne called and they headed to the flop.
Milne decided to play for stacks and check-raised all in at the worst possible time with . Vranken snapped him off with the and the turn and river were just a formality.
Steve Watts busted Gleb Kovtunov and then tried the same against Yuguang Li while the stack of Matthew Miller once again plummeted.
Li bet the turn for 2,500 and Watts called before the fell on the river. "How much stack do you have," the Brit asked his opponent, who took the hands away from the chips. Watts then put him in by betting 40,000 and Li folded rather quickly.
Only seconds later, Watts had another reason to celebrate when England scored a stunning goal in the live stream on his iPad.
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. The Dutchman was at risk with 
and the flop 
was a great start in order to improve. A spade on the turn locked up the hand, but to make it even more memorable, the 
popped up on the river to give van Riet a royal flush!
, but Faraz Jaka looked him up with the 
.
. Hrazem Aanquich called and both then slowed down as the 
river was no reason either to resume betting and the Scot claimed the chips with 
for a pair of nines.
and the 
river were just a formality.
fell on the river. "How much stack do you have," the Brit asked his opponent, who took the hands away from the chips. Watts then put him in by betting 40,000 and Li folded rather quickly.
