An aggressive player needs a stack to bully the table and at the moment Alan Gold is short on his primary weapon. Folded to him on the button he min raised to 600 with 22,000 behind, only to face a three bet to 1,650 from Dale Philip from PokerStars Team Online. The big blind folded and it was back to Gold who is surely looking for a spot to get all his chips in the middle. This wasn’t it though and he released his hand.
Richard Pearson opened for 700, got a caller in Richard Berridge and was three bet to 2,100 from the small blind Kourosh Radfar. Waiting in the big blind was Frederick Wise who moved all-in for just over 10,000. It folded back round to Radfar who shrugged and called. Wise showed the and Radfar looked faintly horrified, which puzzled the table when he tabled . They soon learnt why when he cried, “Not the flush. Don’t do it.” And proceeded to cover his eyes, unable to watch as the cards were dealt. “Oh my God!” Teased another player, but the flush didn’t arrive for either of them and they chopped it up.
With the board reading , the action had been checked across to Simon Fuller who had bet 5,500 on the end.
The player in middle position (missing his ID boo!) tanked for about five minutes before calling the clock on himself. Finally, he made the call while Gordon Huntly folded behind him.
Fuller turned over for the flush and the other player mucked, saying,, "That jack...that jack was the worst card for me..."
The dream is over for PokerStars qualifier Kevin Santner. The German moved all in for his last few thousand chips from the hijack with but ran into compatriot Sebastian Richter's on the button.
The board came and Santer, after a quick handshake, disappeared to the rail.
Liv Boeree raised from the Hi-Jack to 700 and got one caller in the big blind, Patryk Slusarek a UK PokerStars qualifier. They saw a flop of and Slusarek check / called a bet of 700 from Boeree. Turn card came the and Boeree again got a call when she bet a bigger 1,800. The final card was the and Slusarek made his final check. Boeree reached for chips and made it 4,800. Slusarek shrugged and called. He could only nod and muck as Boeree turned over the winning .
Some pre-flop raising saw Barry Greenstein all in against Neil Raine, a PokerStars qualifier. “Ow.” Was Raine’s reaction when he saw his was crushed by Greenstein’s . The board ran out and Greenstein doubled up.
Rob Yong has finally sat down at Greensteins table after late-regging, telling the table that this was the way to make level five.