Hans Olymp was involved in a pot of 9,000 chips to the river of a board and the opponent of the King's regular bet 6,000. Olymp gave it a quick thought and folded, but has still already doubled the initial stack.
Two tables over, four players limped and Johann Rosnick then raised to 4,500 in the big blind. Everyone folded and Rosnick grabbed the small pot to recover from earlier losses. "I don't want to have that drama again, once was enough," referring to a big pot he must have lost not long ago.
Besim Hot opened to 2,500 and the player known as Awesomenezz flat-called, Scott Hanna called as well with the . The flop came and Hot continued for 9,000, Awesomenezz raised to 20,000 and Hanna shoved with his double draw. Hot mucked pocket tens and Hanna failed to improve against to order the next bullet.
Hot and Awesomenezz clashed again soon after with the Swiss moving all in after the river of a board. His opponent was very tempted on the big stack of more than 90,000 but eventually folded and claimed to have had , Hot showed the . "A dangerous man," Thomer Pidun said in the nine seat.
Walking past the table of Peter Siemund, the German flashed a smile and that may have very well been due to his increased stack size. Siemund has almost twice the starting stack and only trails Werner Nather to his right, who has slightly more chips.
During the winner ceremony it was confirmed that Marek Blasko was still leading the WSOP Circuit ranking here at the King's Casino and he even applauded to Stipo Vladic. Blasko has just above starting stack and is looking forward to accumulating more points towards the overall ranking.
Marek Fritz raised to 800 from under the gun and picked up two callers on the cutoff and the big blind. On the flop flop, Fritz continued for 1,325 and the player in the cutoff only called before the fell on the turn. Fritz fired a second barrel worth 4,500 and that did the trick.
Amir Mozaffarian was still sitting next to the Slovak by then but five minutes later his seat was open.
The hand started rather bizarre with Sandro Pitzanti tossing in a blue T-1,000 chip and one player calling before Thomas Vogel raised to 3,000. Some confusion broke out as the players assumed Pitzanti did not raise but just call by not saying anything while the Dutchman assured he did announce a raise. Floor was called and Pitzanti almost insulted the other players at the table before then calming down.
He got 600 chips back as it was ruled as call only and Serok Kilic then called in the small blind, the other players folded. The board ran out and Kilic moved all in after the river with his huge stack. Vogel called for around starting stack and Kilic immediately jumped out of his chair.
"Royal flush baby!!!", smashing his to the table. A gutted Vogel revealed and then quietly left the table while Kilic took out his smart phone to take a picture of the board.
Warren Lush just presented Stipo Vladic his ring for winning the top prize of €256,025 in the Super High Roller in the wee-hours of the morning. Cheers just erupted as the Croatian national anthem concluded.
Nicholas le Floch was eliminated before the break and Sebastian Langrock was spotted with his best poker buddy on the rail during the break, complaining about how bad he runs. Ali Sameeian listed quietly, cracked a smile and Langrock said he only won one hand so far with queens versus aces after spiking the last two remaining queens in the deck.
The German is currently below starting stack and focused on the music in his earphones, story to be continued.
Besim Hot is exactly like his last name says, hot. He can run up a stack very quickly or fire it all out in a hurry, which sums up most of his tournament performances. Hot was already up to 130,000 earlier and now just dropped to 85,000 before taking down a pot by betting two streets against Scott Hanna.