Every four years the World Cup coincides with the World Series of Poker. Sasha Salinger heads to the Hofbrauhaus with poker players Marvin Rettenmaier, Niall Ferrell, Steven Chu, Ankush Mandavia, Rainer Kempe, Jeremy Menard and others! What is the atmosphere like in an authentic German beer hall? Who is getting drunk and taking shots?
Seth Davies raised to 50,000 from late position and Terrence Byrnes moved all in from the hijack. It folded to Michael Marder in the big blind and he slide out a stack of 625,000. Davies quickly folded and the hands were shown.
Michael Marder:
Terrence Byrnes:
The dealer fanned the flop and Marder paired his king in the window to take control of the hand. The turn was the giving Byrnes both straight and flush draws but the river was no help to Byrnes.
Marder added the pot to his stack and Byrnes was eliminated in 17th place taking home $18,600 for his efforts.
There were two players looking at a flop. Jeff Hakim, who was playing from the blinds, checked and Jeffrey Bonnett, who was playing late position bet 80,000. Hakim hen decided to up it, raising to a relatively small 180,000 and Bonnett went over him again, this time moving all-in. Hakim snap folded and Bonnett scooped the pot.
Seth Davies raised to 50,000 and Zizheng Huang called. They went heads-up to the flop and both players checked. The turn was the and Davies led out with a bet of 130,000.
Huang called and the completed the board. Davies bet 45,000 and Huang moved all-in for 636,000. Davies thought it over for about 15-seconds before releasing his hand and Huang took the pot.
The action folded to Chris Ferguson on the button and he raised to 56,000. Seth Davies folded his small blind and Zizheng Huang re-raised to 500,000 from the big blind. Ferguson snap called for his last 476,000 turning over and he was dominating Huang's .
The board ran out and Ferguson paired his king to double up. The players are now on a 15-minute break and we will pick back up on all of the live tournament action when play resumes.
Timur Margolin has had a very productive couple of hands since returning from the break.
First off, he took some chips from Dylan Linde. He defended his big bind to Linde's middle position 70,000 open and the flop came down . He check-called Linde's 45,000 continuation and they went to the turn. It was a and after checking again, Linde bet 90,000, over which Margolin moved all-in for 255,000 total. It was good enough to take it down.
Next he three-bet all-in from the small blind versus Josh Bergman's button raise to 70,000. Bergman passed, flashing the and Margolin scooped up some more to add to his stack.
Michael Marder raised to 60,000 from the hi-jack and Chris Ferguson re-raised to 215,000 from the small blind. Marder called and they went heads-up to the flop.
Ferguson tank for nearly a minute before he moved all-in for 715,000 and Marder quickly folded.