After losing a blind battle against Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky was down a little, but he climbed back up to the starting stack of 30,000 when he won a hand against Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz.
Sulsky faced a 300 raise from Thuritz and decided to reraise to 949 from the button. The Swede under the gun elected to call and check-called a 590 continuation bet on the flop.
He checked again on the -turn and then folded after Sulsky bet 2,466.
The first, and so far only table, in this tournament is almost full now. They are playing seven handed in this 8-Max tournament after Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky and Christoph "26071985" Vogelsang joined the action.
Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi finds himself at the bottom of the leaderboard after fifteen minutes of play. He lost two sizeables pots that diminished his starting stack of 30,000 chips to 22,000.
He first lost two hands against Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk, before he clashed with Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz.
Shakerchi opened from the button with a raise to 128, before Thuritz put in a three bet to 600 from the big blind. The Englishman called and they saw a flop. Shakerchi check-called a 665 bet and did the same when Thuritz fired 1,710 on the turn.
Shakerchi called a third time when Thuritz bet 1,890 when the fell on the river, but he mucked after been shown the from Thuritz. Which sent the Swede to the chiplead.
The biggest ever buy-in tournament of online poker has just started. Five players were seated at the start of this event. Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz and Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi were the first to register. Just minutes before the start they were joined by Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton, Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk and "OtB_RedBaron".
We know for a fact that a lot of players will register in the upcoming hours, as there's five hour-long late registration for this event.
flop. 
-turn and then folded after Sulsky bet 2,466. 
flop. Shakerchi check-called a 665 bet and did the same when Thuritz fired 1,710 on the 
fell on the river, but he mucked after been shown the 
from Thuritz. Which sent the Swede to the chiplead.
