Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
On the three-way flop of ![]()
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, Karl-Heinz Oppermann checked in the small blind, as did Ashot Oganesian in the big blind. Benas Kuzmickas on the button bet 7,500 and Oppermann called. Oganesian then check-raised to 22,000 and just Kuzmickas called.
After the
turn, Oganesian immediately moved all in and Kuzmickas then called after some consideration with ![]()
for aces and fives. Oganesian only had ![]()
for a pair of jacks and the
river was a blank. Kuzmickasdoubled up for 85,100 and Oganesian was left with very few chips, busted shortly after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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230,000
230,000
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230,000 |
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Busted |
On the heads-up flop of ![]()
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, Constantine Gorinson moves all in for around 28,000, which equaled the size of the pot. Thomas Zurek looked him up with the superior stack, but held the slightly inferior kicker with ![]()
. Gorinson was ahead with ![]()
and paired his king on the
turn.
The
fell on the river and Zurek asked "no suckout?" with a smile on the face, having witnessed two dramatic hands on the same table not long ago.
Soon after, Zurek paired his queen on a ![]()
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flop, but Lukáš Svoboda had made trips sixes with ![]()
to take his remaining short stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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130,000
130,000
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130,000 |
|
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81,000
27,000
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27,000 |
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Busted |
Quincy Chun raised from under the gun and called a three-bet to 14,000 by Ronny Voth from two seats over. On the ![]()
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flop, Chun bet 15,000 with another 32,000 behind and Voth moved all in. Chun called it off and found himself in kicker trouble.
Chun: ![]()
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Voth: ![]()
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Neither the
turn nor the
river changed anything and Chun has been eliminated, while Voth joins the bigger stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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200,000
72,000
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72,000 |
|
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Busted |
Ronny Voth raised to 5,400 and Tony Veille moved all in for around 27,000 from one seat over in the cutoff. Out of the small blind, Marc Andre Fürstenau also announced all in and the action then reached Lukasz Kubicki. He moved in to create a three-way showdown already, Voth quickly got out of the way.
Veille: ![]()
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Fürstenau: ![]()
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Kubicki: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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and the pair of kings held up for Fürstenau, who busted Veille and doubled through Kubicki for 43,800.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
128,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
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123,000
123,000
|
123,000 |
|
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43,000 | |
|
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Busted |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
The registration closed with the start of level 12 and 156 entries put the Main Event of the PokerNews Cup in great shape to meet the guarantee of €200,000, as another three starting days remain. With two levels to go for the night, only one third of the field remains though, as the screens currently show 54 left.
After losing a flip with ![]()
against ![]()
on a board of ![]()
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, Bruce Balboa was left with less than two big blinds. He survived one hand but then busted soon after, heading straight over to the cash game section.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
With around 55,000 in the pot and the board reading ![]()
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, Mathias Busse moved all in for around the size of the pot. Ričardas Vymeris quickly called and Busse was in dire need of help with ![]()
for two pair, as Vymeris rolled over ![]()
for a set of nines.
The
river was a blank and that shipped the pot to the Lithuanian, who also took the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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260,000
260,000
|
260,000 |
|
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Busted |
For quite some time, Aleksei Ivanov has been nursing a short stack. In a three-way pot out of the big blind, he faced the bet of 2,000 by Thomas Zurek in the small blind on the ![]()
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flop and called, the button also came along.
On the
turn, Zurek bet 4,000 and just Ivanov called. Both players checked the
river and Zurek showed ![]()
, Ivanov claimed the pot with ![]()
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
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35,000
5,000
|
5,000 |