Claude Coulombe was seen getting a small double through Jacopo Achille in a blind versus blind confrontation.
The board had run out 2♣3♣4♣7♥J♠ with Coulombe holding 10♣10♥, while Achille's hand had already been flipped face-down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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50,000
8,000
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8,000 |
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25,000 | |
Robert Kuhn raised to 3,200 before Joel Lyttle called from the next seat over. Nohad Teliani tossed in the chips to call and action folded around to Lewis Spencer for a three-bet to 15,500 in the small blind. Kuhn looked down at his chips and shoved, pushing Lyttle and Teliani out of the hand before Spencer thought better of it and joined them in the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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218,000
52,700
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52,700 |
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118,000
55,000
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55,000 |
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68,000
68,000
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68,000 |
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60,200
60,200
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60,200 |
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56,500
30,300
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30,300 |
Following several preflop raises to create a pot of 29,000 to the J♠10♥5♥ flop, Paraskevas Tsokaridis checked and Kazuhiko Yotsushika bet 8,000. The check-raise to 55,000 by Tsokaridis followed, who kept around 6,000 behind. Once Yotsushika called, the Greek moved all-in in the dark by splashing in his remaining chips.
The 8♥ turn followed and Yotsushika called.
Paraskevas Tsokaridis: K♠Q♠
Kazuhiko Yotsushika: A♦Q♣
"Oh wow," Tsokaridis gasped and several other players at the table were also stunned. They witnessed a blank 5♦ river and Yotsushika knocked out another opponent with ace-queen high.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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380,000
240,000
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240,000 |
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Busted |
Alexander Gruissem opened to 2,700 from under the gun and received a call from Bruce Douglas in the big blind.
The flop came 8♠5♠4♣ and Douglas check-called a 2,500 continuation bet from Gruissem.
On the 3♠ turn Douglas moved all in for 11,200. Gruissem made the call with a covering stack to put Douglas at risk.
Bruce Douglas: K♣6♠
Alexander Gruissem: Q♣Q♦
Gruissem was ahead with an overpair but still had to dodge some outs from Douglas in the form of any spade, two, seven or king. The 4♦ river was a brick and Douglas made his exit from the tournament area while Gruissem collected the last of his chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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74,700
74,700
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74,700 |
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Busted |
While most of the attention is on the $5,000 Main Event Championship, the $100,000 Ultra High Roller is taking place in the back corner of the Atlantis Conference Center with some of the biggest names in high-stakes poker still in contention.
Heading into the three-table redraw, poker commentator and overall swag-master Nick Schulman leads the way with a stack of over 7,500,000, significantly more than the average stack of approximately 2,800,000. Other big stacks leading the final 24 players include Leonard Maue (7,000,000), Justin Bonomo (7,500,000) and Quan Zhou (4,500,000).
Also among the remaining 24 players are Alex Foxen, Ren Lin, Isaac Haxton, Ben Heath, Rui Ferreira, Lucas Greenwood and Martin Kabrhel.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
Heads-up to the K♦J♠10♠3♠9♦ river with around 46,000 in the middle, Eran Soffer had 15,000 behind. He faced the bet of 30,000 by big stack Marko Vuzem and went deep into the tank, desperately trying to get any information out of his opponent.
The tank went so long that the clock was called on Soffer, who called it off in the very last second of his 30-second countdown.
Vuzem tabled K♣Q♦ for the straight and Soffer mucked the J♦J♥ before heading out of the tournament area.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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430,000
68,000
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68,000 |
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Busted |
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With two players seeing a board of 7♥10♥K♦3♦5♠ and roughly 21,000 already in the middle, Wender Oliveira checked in the small blind and Robert Kuhn moved all in from the big blind, covering Oliveira's remaining stack of roughly 31,000.
After roughly one minute Oliveira made the call. Kuhn could only show 9♥8♠ for a missed straight draw turned into a bluff while Oliveira tabled 7♠3♠ for two pair to score a full double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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86,800
86,800
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86,800 |
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63,000
63,000
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63,000 |
On the heads-up turn of A♦A♠9♦10♦, Daniel Smiljkovic checked and called a bet worth 3,600 by Kyriakos Papadopoulos. They headed to the K♥ river on which both players c hecked. Smiljkovic tabled the A♥5♥ and it was good enough to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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45,000
12,000
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12,000 |
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