These players each earned $46,096 for their respective finishes.
These players each earned $46,096 for their respective finishes.
It started rather innocent with a raise to 65,000 by Arash Ghaneian and ended with the shove of Kevin Calenzo out of the small blind for more than 1.3 million. Ghaneian looked him up and tapped the table once the cards were turned over. "No matter how it ends, nice hand," Ghaneian added.
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flop, Calenzo put a deadlock on the hand, and the
turn made his double-up official. "Pay the man his money," Ghaneian said before the
river completed the board. Calenzo's all-in was for 1,372,000, and that cut Ghaneian's stack in more than half.
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board, Michael Ruane bet 250,000 and Ankush Mandavia check-called.
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completed the board on the river and Mandavia took over, firing a bet of 650,000. Ruane cut down his stack and contemplated his decision.
After a moment, Ruane made the call and Mandavia nodded in defeat. Ruane tabled ![]()
for a flopped set and Mandavia mucked.
Charlie Carrel opened to 65,000 from under the gun, Iverson Snuffer called from the small blind, Greg Mueller three-bet jammed from the big blind for 495,000, Carrel looked him up, and Snuffer folded.
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, no help to Mueller, ending his Main Event and giving Carrel the pot.
Antonio Della Sciucca was spotted leaving his seat while Damian Salas scooped yet another big pot. According to players at the table, Salas limped, Della Sciucca raised to 120,000, and Salas limp-raised before snap-calling the shove of the Canadian.
Della Sciucca tabled pocket queens and Salas had pocket kings. The board came ![]()
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and Salas' full house left Della Sciucca empty-handed.
"You are the only one I know that limp-raises," a player at the table remarked to Salas.
With that pot, Salas is back in the lead in this tournament.
Hans Joachim Hein raised in early position, Ruslan Gazaev called in the small blind, and the big blind called. On a flop of ![]()
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, the blinds checked and Hein bet 85,000. Gazaev check-raised to 260,000, the big blind folded, and Hein looked at Gazaev.
"Quads already?" Hein asked.
Gazaev looked surprised. "What?"
Hein called and the
came on the turn. Gazaev bet 330,000 and Hein stared him down. He folded and told Gazaev to show the bluff.
Gazaev held up his cards next to his head, as if to scratch his ear, and revealed the
before tossing his cards in.
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, a player in the blinds checked to Richard Gryko who bet 80,000. His opponent check-raised to 225,000. Gryko then three-bet with a large stack of purple T$100,000 chips and his opponent folded.
This pot, and a multitude of others, have caused Gryko's chipcount to soar to over 5.5M chips.
A massive pot was brewing on Table 704 with about 1,600,000 in the pot on a board reading ![]()
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Eyal Maaravi was in the big blind and led out for a bet worth 520,000. Andrew Magbual was under the gun and thought about it before deciding to call.
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for a full house, sevens full of eights. Magbual rapped the table and mucked his hand.
Maaravi raked in the big pot and has now slipped into the chip lead.
There was a raise of 100,000 in front of Tracy Nguyen before the flop. She was up against Zu Zhou who reraised, making it 230,000 to go. Nguyen flatted the raise out of position, and the two took to a flop.
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flop, both players checked. The turn was the
and Nguyen opted to lead out, putting in a bet of 135,000. Zhou called.
On the
river, Nguyen decided to check. Zhou cut out a bet of 330,000 and Nguyen dropped into the tank. She thought for several minutes, counting out her stack before she finally decided to let her hand go. Zhou raked in the pot and Nguyen fell to just over 600,000 chips.