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river. Dimitriy Kim bet 3,100 and Nasser Lahouti raised to 15,000. Kim was not happy and decided to fold face up, pretty quickly, ![]()
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"I should have bet the turn," said Kim, while Lahouti was taking that pot.
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river. Dimitriy Kim bet 3,100 and Nasser Lahouti raised to 15,000. Kim was not happy and decided to fold face up, pretty quickly, ![]()
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"I should have bet the turn," said Kim, while Lahouti was taking that pot.
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turn. Five players were on that turn, and the player in early position bet 2,500. Only Ryan Eriquezzo called to see a
river. This time, after his opponent checked, he decided to bet 8,000.
His opponent quickly called and Eriquezzo took that pot.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
At the end of the first level, one player was seen with a lot chips, her name is Angela Aguilar.
"I cracked a set of deuces with Aces," explained Aguilar, who had ![]()
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board against ![]()
, then she explained that she had "two-pair and a straight draw against a player who made all in with bottom pair", and she finally hit the straight on the river.
"It's Christmas in July for her," said another player on her table.
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turn, with Inge Fagerbakke who bet 4,000 and Stuart Taylor who called.
The river
completed that board and Fagerbakke quickly bet 5,000. Taylor called, Fagerbakke showed ![]()
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and made a set on the turn, to collect that pot.
Another player has already a lot of chips, his name is Andre Templeman.
The Canadian confessed that "two players decided to give me their chips, I just took it." Then he explained he made a straight on the river, against a set of eights for his opponent, and the second player "decided to player king-ten against my king-jack."
And Templeman is already the chipleader.
One player is already cruising: Kyle Birdwell has twice as many chips as everyone else, after he scored a first elimination.
PokerNews was not there to see the action, but Birdwell confessed that he defended ![]()
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On the flop, a player bet 400, another one raised to 1,500 and Birdwell called. On the turn, this same player who raised on the flop, bet 3,000 and Birdwell raised to 8,000 with quads.
On the river, Birdwell just shoved after a check from his opponent. Who finally called and busted really soon.
And here we go, the tournament director made the shuffle up and deal for the first players starting this event. And it begins with 71 tables with between 3 and 8 players each time.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100