Selcuk Ayaz, from Turkey, had just won a big pot the hand before with in a pre-flop raising war. His opponent had called but given up on the flop. Now Ayaz was intent on keeping the good run going. He opened for 425, Kara Scott called and Nichan Khorchidian raised to 1,125 on the button. The blinds folded, Ayaz called as did Scott.
A flop of saw all three players check. on the turn and Khorchidian bets 1,170. Ayaz raised to 3,700. Scott got out of the way. “Clubs?” asked Khorchidian and made the call. Careful what you wish for as the last card was and Ayaz duly led for 4,700. Khorchidian looked confused. It took a couple of minutes but he seemed to put the puzzle together and made the call.
Ayaz had and a slightly relieved Khorchidian turned over for the winning top pair.
“Wow. Nice call.” Max Droege commented at the same table. It was indeed.
Erkut Yilmaz just picked up a big pot from Andrei Stoenescu, Yilmaz bet 4,675 on the turn and 6,275 on the river of a board with Stoenescu calling him down. Yilmaz turned over which was clearly too good for Stoenescu who mucked his hand.
Antranic Demirdijan was a little short on chips and made his move all in against fellow Lebanese player Naji Abdo who called. Demirdjian was surely hoping hearts would be kind to his but Abdo held . The board ran out . Demirdjian called for the queen when the turn card came, but his three-outer did not materialise on the river and he was out of the tournament.
Jerfi Firatli is looking distinctly annoyed and unimpressed. He'd held on a board and paid off a 7,300 bet against Sergey Vasilev but the latter turned over for the rivered full house to win the pot. Firatli dropped to 16,000 while Vasilev is doing rather better on 55,000.
Kara Scott opened the action to 350. Nichan Khorchidian to her left appears to put in three light blue 100 chips followed by a yellow 500. The dealer asked him if it was a raise, he confirms it was. The dealer asked Scott if she heard raise and she said she didn’t hear it. The dealer rules that the raise to 800 stands. Folded around to Vladimir Volov who calls. Scott sizes up the situation and makes another raise to 2,600.
Khorchidian checks his cards again and folds. It looks like Scott has made a great play but Volov makes the call and the two players see a flop of . Both player check and we go to the turn card the . Volov bets 4,000. Scott smiles, shakes her head and folds. “I’d love to know what you had.” She said as the chips slid over to the Russian.
With the board reading , Andrew Sweeney saw his initial 1,050 bet check-raised to 3,350 by Bartłomiej Kowalowka. Sweeney made the call to see the on the turn. Kowalowka took a minute to think where someone called the clock, "He's only had a minute," interjected Sweeney.
After another minute or so, Kowalowka bet 6,025. Sweeney thought about it but instead flashed into the muck. "He can have a set or something like ace-x of spades," reasoned Sweeney.