As we were walking around updating stacks, we came to the table where Andy Spears and Arash Behnam were still active in a hand. They were the only players still left in the room and a sizeable pot pay between them.
With a quick glance at the pot, there seemed to be about 200,000. The board read and Spears had moved all-in for 90,000. Behnam took several minutes before eventually laying down pocket queens and begging spears to reveal his hand.
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Six-time WSOP bracelet winner Layne Flack is sitting left to Demosthenes Kiriopoulos. The two went to a raising battle as Kiriopoulos started the war dance, opening the button for 12,000. Flack responded with a three-bet to 32,000 and, when the action returned to Kiripoulos, the action wasn't over yet.
Kiriopoulos put in 82,000 but it didn't scare Flack at all. He took the newly introduced green 25,000 chips to his left hand and made a five-bet worth something like 240,000. That was the final prize as Kiripoulos folded right away.
"What's the score? Seven-to-one?" joked Flack and Kiriopoulos smiled.
Jeremy Ausmus was playing only 16 big blinds and he posted one in the hand that escalated in Ausmus' all in fight against Mikhail Semin, who raise-called from the button.
Jeremy Ausmus:
Mikhail Semin:
Semin couldn't get any piece on the board of and his stack suffered a major hit as he had to send Ausmus more than three-quarters of what he had, 81,500 to be precise.
"Why didn't you have ace-jack?" asked Semin partially as a sigh and partially as a joke.
There's hardly a better feeling in poker than finding pocket aces in your hand. That's exactly what happened to Ismael Bojang a few moments ago, and the German pro got the max value from the best starting hand.
There were some other figures on the board, but neither of them helped Corey Zedo enough to crack the bullets. His cards were already mucked when the dealer counted Bojang's belongings that were about to double.
Bojang quickly stacked his chips in order, following the "Deutsche Ordnung" stereotype. It was visible that he commenced with 475,000.
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and Spears had moved all-in for 90,000. Behnam took several minutes before eventually laying down pocket queens and begging spears to reveal his hand.
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was harmless for the higher pair and Cieri scored a dab.
and his stack suffered a major hit as he had to send Ausmus more than three-quarters of what he had, 81,500 to be precise.
on which both of them checked.
where they both checked again.
, Bojang opened to 16,000 and Lewis called. Bojang showed the 
