Nitsche Doubles Through Kolonias, Qiang Pulls Further in Front

The number of re-entries has now increased to 52 with 29 players still in the running. Gabe Patgorski is one of the newcomers, the US player entering for the first time and Steve O’Dwyer has chosen to fire a third bullet.

Tom Dwan has yet to get anything going and his 250,000 start stack has dwindled to 125,000 though we have yet to catch him in action.

Two players who we did though were Alexandros Kolonias and Dominik Nitsche. It was Kolonias who was the initial aggressor, making it 18,000 to go from the button and Nitsche (big blind0 moved all-in for 176,000 in total.

Kolonias thought it over for a minute or so but made the call and the cards were turned over.

Dominik Nitsche:
Alexandros Kolonias:

Nitsche was the at-risk player but had the best hand and both players caught a piece of the flop. The turn kept Nitsche’s nose in front and the river saw the German player lock in the double and climb to 352,000 while Kolonias dropped to 105,000.

Chip leader Wang Qiang is continuing to amass chips and we caught the Chinese player involved in a hand against Montenegro’s Predrag Lekovic, picking up the action on the turn with over 100,000 in blinds and antes in the pot and the community cards spread .

First to act, Lekovic led for 55,000 and Qiang chewed over the decision for a little while before making the call. The river paired the board and brought a quick check from Lekovic and after thinking for a few seconds Qiang checked it back.

Lekovic rolled over for ace-high, which was not enough to best Qiang’s and the Chinese player scooped another, climbing to over 2 million in chips while Lekovic dropped to 340,000.