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Level 8
: 400/800, 800 ante
Eyal Eshkar has just been moved to a new table, straight into the big blind. As soon as he sat down, action started rumbling with Martin Servais opening under the gun for 1,500 and an in-position player raising to 4,000. It folded to fresh big blind Eshkar, who moved all in for around 30,000. Back to the original raiser Servais who called all-in for less after a short think; the three-bettor got out of the way.
Servais: 
Eshkar: 
There was only a tiny suit sweat until the flop came down 
, the turn and river 
semi-ignored as the two pot-choppers worked out how much they'd each made from splitting the third player's bet and the small blind.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
33,000 |
was already laid out on the table with around 35,000 in the middle. Thomas Boivin was on the button and heads-up with a player in the hijack. 
for two pair to earn a double up.
was spread across the felt and Eddy Sabat was already all in. There was a side pot going on between Gal Yifrach and the player on his left. With around 12,000 in the main pot and 8,000 in the side pot, Yifrach already checked and his opponent finally checked as well just as the clock was called.
and both players quickly checked again. Yifrach turned over 
which was good enough to win the side pot against his opponent's 
. Sabat tabled 
which meant Yifrach collected the main pot as well.
board, a heads up pot already grown over two streets of betting was led into by Kevin Song for 7,000. His opponent gave it half a minute's worth of consideration, before moving his whole stack of 17,800 across the line. Song announced, "Call" before his opponent's chips had come to a complete stop, tabling 
for the nuts, a straight to the queen. His opponent had flopped a set of sixes with 
and Jacobson tabled 
