First Break on Day 1a
The players have been sent into a 15-minute break.
The players have been sent into a 15-minute break.
After a raise to 300 from the player on the button, Jean-Philippe Piquette raised to 750 out of the big blind and his opponent clicked it to 1,700. Piquette announced a raise to 4,100 and then moved all in after his opponent from Russia made it 10,000 to go. Piquette was all in for 16,250 and got a reluctant call to flip over .
The Canadian had to look twice to make sure he was indeed called by the monster hand and Piquette then laughed at his opponent with the words "be sorry only if you bust me." The board ran out and Piquette is back above starting stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jean-Philippe Piquette |
33,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Heads-up to the flop, Seth Berger bet 1,000 into a pot of 2,200 and Sam Cohen check-called. The on the turn saw Cohen check once again and the 3,100 bet of Berger won the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Seth Berger |
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Sam Cohen |
26,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Alex Goulder was the initial raiser and four other opponents called to see the flop of . Hell broke out in a raising war between Alexander Lakhov and Iori Yogo with the Russian four-bet shoving and Yogo calling with . Lahkov held for the flush draw and straight draw, which hit thanks to a club on the river.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alexander Lakhov |
57,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
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Iori Yogo | 1,800 |
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Jonathan Little raised to 400 and found one caller in the player in the big blind. On the flop, his opponent check-called a continuation bet of 700 and then check-raised the on the turn from 1,500 to 4,500. Little called the additional 3,000 after his second barrel and then faced a bet of 5,000 when the appeared on the river. Little folded and lost his first bigger pot today.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Little |
51,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
A few days ago, Marvin Rettenmaier had already tweeted that he was booked up and ready to go for Prague. In the middle of level two, the two-times WPT champion has now sat down and faces stiff competition on a table with Shannon Shorr, David Peters and Iori Yogo.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marvin Rettenmaier | 30,000 | |
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Some faces you will barely ever forget even though the name may be slipping from the mind for a while. Iori Yogo has made it all the way to Prague and sat down on a table with Jean-Philippe Piquette. He just played a small pot with the Canadian and raised a flop of from 750 to 2,300. Piquette mucked his cards and Yogo claimed the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Iori Yogo |
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
Jean-Philippe Piquette |
29,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Alex Goulder raised to 300 and Jonathan Little made it 900 to go, which was called by Alexander Lakhov in the blinds and Goulder. On the flop, Lakhov checked and Goulder continued for 1,600 which both opponents called. The fell on the turn and the Brit continued for another 4,200, again neither opponent went anywhere and called.
The river completed the board and now all three players checked. Lakhov showed as first player after the button, Goulder did have a better hand than that but Little flipped over to scoop another big pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Little |
57,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
||
Alexander Lakhov |
25,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
||
Alex Goulder |
19,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
David Peters has just sat down next to Shannon Shorr and saw the fellow American in the think tank on the river of a board. His opponent bet 2,200 into a pot of 1,600 and Shorr eventually made the call, revealing for a pair of aces. The pot was chopped versus the of his opponent.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Shannon Shorr |
31,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
David Peters |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |