bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a hand like this one. Jacoues Torbey limped from early position and Peter Ockende in the small blind asked Oleg Suntsov in the big blind what he was going to do. When no answer was forthcoming he completed the blind. Suntsov checked his option.
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was the flop. Ockende checked and Sunstov bet 1,000. He took the pot down and congratulated his opponents on a good fold, flipping over ![]()
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Alessandro Cavallo pushed all in from late position for his last 35,000 or so and Rainer Kempe quickly called in the big blind.
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Both flopped pairs but that meant Kempe stayed in the lead on the ![]()
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board.
Alexander Gofman announced all in and was called by Elias Saleh. Gofman’s ![]()
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. Gofman was out.
With a min raise in front of him, Dani Parlafes decided to make his move from the small blind and moved all in. Unfortunately Kfir Yamin in the big blind had woken up with a real hand and moved all in as well. Parfales turned over his ![]()
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. There was some hope when the first card came out but it was not to be. ![]()
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and Parfales was out.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Players are on a short break.
Sergey Rybachenko bet 10,800 on a board of ![]()
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and was raised by Osman Topcu to 22,000. Rybachenko moved all in and Topcu called, showing ![]()
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of Rybachenko. The last card was a blank and Toppcu headed for the exit.
Photos courtesy of the WPT
Max Droege is full of energy and chatter at the table today, bouncing around despite making a late appearnce at the WPT player's party last night.
He complained to PokerNews between hands that he had been card dead today and had to fold his only decent hand, a pair of jacks, pre-flop when he faced a three-bet. The flop contained an ace so perhaps he was happy to get away from it without putting a chip in the pot. He is not letting the lack of premium hands get him down though, commenting, "Hey it was like that most of the day yesterday and then look what happened"
Photo courtesy of WPT