On a river, Alexandru Papazian was raking in a pot having showed for a full house. His opponent in the hand was rubbing his eyes and shaking his head in disbelief. He showed for a smaller full house, and was remonstrating with Papazian about what he would have done had a different river card had come.
Richard Dubini is in a far corner table with barely any access, but one hand that saw the partypoker Sponsored Pro involved just took place to see the Argentinian back above starting stack. On a three-way flop of , Dubini in the big blind checked and so did two opponents including the player on the button.
After the turn, Dubini checked and faced a bet of 30,000 as well as call by the button before check-raising to 135,000. Only the button called before folding the river when Dubini made it 160,000 to go.
Josef Gulas forfeited most of his stack in a big pot against Aleksei Milica and Konstantin Generalov chipped up on a table that also includes Jack Sinclair and Vladimir Geshkenbein.
On the flop, Generalov bet 30,000 and Anatoly Filonenko was the only caller. The turn saw another bet of 80,000 and Filonenko called in the cutoff before the river paired the board for the second time. Generalov slowed down and checked, then called a bet of 125,000 by Filonenko.
Reluctant to show, Filonenko sheepishly turned over his cards while Sinclair added "he's got nothing" with a big grin. Filonenko had for a busted flush draw and Generalov had that beat with .
Viktor Ustimov limped under the gun with and Leon Tsoukernik also called in the hijack with . Andrey Razov held but did not realise that he was in the big blind, and put out the chips to call a raise. However, this meant that he had committed chips to the pot and it was ruled as a raise.
Viktor then moved all in for just under one million chips. Tsoukernik folded and Razov called all in for his tournament life.
The board ran out and Razov became the first elimination at the High Roller final table. Razov takes home 57,000 Casino Units (approximately $50,000).
Player
Chip Count
Viktor Ustimov
1,545,000
Andrey Razov
Eliminated
The players are going on a short brike. When they return the blinds will be 40,000/80,000 wth a 40,000 ante.
Alexandru Papazian opened to 20,000 and Josef Gulas three-bet to 50,000 from one seat over. Terrance Green called, as did Zulfia Korgu, and Papazian came along for the ride. The flop of was checked through and the turn saw a bet of 75,000 by Green, which just Papazian called.
Action slowed down on the river and Green showed as winning hand. "It was raise, three-bet and call call," Papazian explained and Green joked back with a "that's standard here."
In the meanwhile, Elena Jasuchina has been eliminated as Papazian claims the seat that formerly belonged to her.
In a three-bet pot, Oleg Titov and Maxim Lykov headed to a heads-up flop of and Titov check-raised all in with for a big draw. Lykov apparently only had and a queen on the turn was followed by a club on the river to leave Lykov with 100,000.
Those chips were gone soon after with as Sergey Terentiev improved with and Lykov will have to re-enter.
"Oh no, that's the worst thing to happen," Jan-Peter Jachtmann said and stood up from his chair while two Brits that railed his table also cried out loudly. The board was all but rushed away while Oksana Abakhova left her seat in disguise with the always-talkative Martin Kabrhel raking in the big pot.
Apparently, Abakhova had five-bet for half of her stack before Kabrhel six-bet all in with . He was quickly called by Abakhova with pocket aces and Kabrhel got there thanks to the on the river. "Hippo says it is time," Kabrhel added.
Kabrhel now sits on an above-average stack of 1.9 million while Jachtmann is back to starting stack on the same table.