Just an Ordinary Table
Christian Nilles became a big stack on his table when flat-calling a shove for 270,000 before another player behind him reshoved for 550,000. Nilles snapped it off with aces and bested the two opponents, who held pocket nines and pocket tens.
What followed was rather unfortunate for the German, who already faced Stephen Chidwick, Stefan Schillhabel and Tamer Kamel on that table. Martin Kabrhel took the first vacated seat, and the other was filled by Igor Kurganov.
Kurganov and Kabrhel got into a hand and the latter started his usual table talk, while Kurganov played the game. "Nice hair like usual Igor. How do you want to play this heads up?" Kabrhel asked after he raised to 45,000 and was called by Kurganov on the button.
"I want to win a big pot," the Russian replied and the flop fell 
. Kabrhel checked, Kurganov bet 42,000 and Kabrhel folded with the words "you got it." Kurganov smiled and said "I got half of what I wanted" and this table will likely provide plenty of fireworks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,800,000 | 1,100,000 |
|
2,100,000 | -100,000 |
|
2,100,000 | |
|
1,600,000 | -400,000 |
|
1,100,000 | |
|
975,000 | 225,000 |