After a preflop betting war, Chino Rheem slid out a reraise to 7,700 and his opponent moved all in for almost starting stack. Rheem was sensing a flip and folded, the opponent showed the . "Oh come on, I always show you," Rheem said and wanted to see the second card as well.
"Flip? Ace king?" the American inquired and both somewhat agreed in table chat that it would have been a race with jacks versus ace-king.
After a raise to 500 and the three-bet of Ates Hikmet to 1,500, another player called on the button and Atanas Kavrakov four-bet to 5,000 with what looked to be 14,000 behind. The initial raiser folded, Hikmet asked for the stack of the Bulgarian and so did the player on the button. Neither of them was willing to put any more chips at risk though.
Miltiadis Kyriakides raised to 500 and Nichan Khorchidian three-bet to 3,000 from two seats over with only a mere 5,000 behind. Kyriakides looked over and then told his opponent to "put it inside", grabbing enough chips to put Khorchidian all in for 8,475 in total.
It was the for the Greek and the for Khorchidian, Kyriakides even asked for a king on the flop and got his wish granted. The board ran out and that was it for Khordichian.
Mehmet Sinan Ogan is usually a cash game player only but since he doesn't always get action here and felt bored, he jumped into some tournaments and won a PLO event as well as finished third in the LEI Main Event two days ago. Just now he sat down for the WPT National Main Event, so the cash games must not be any good for him so far.
Joining the action on the river of a and Jan Bendik faced the 7,350-bet of an opponent into a pot of 8,600. The Slovakian eventually called and was shown for a full house, which Bendik could not beat.
Ates Hikmet won the LEI Main Event two days ago here in Noah's Ark whereas Hassan Bitter tries again for the second time today. This also applies for Sevket Yildiz.