Mess with Mustapha Kanit at your peril, the Italian is fearless, as Kane Kalas just found out.
He raised to 1,700 from early position and was called by the hijack before Kanit squeezed to 6,200 from the cutoff. Action back on Kanit, he made it 16,600. The four-bet was enough to oust the third party but not Kanit; he five-bet all in and Kalas quickly folded.
Editors note: Kanit could well have had aces for a fourth time.
With around 15,000 in the pot and a flop of , Konstantin Fetzer bet 5,500 from the small blind and Hiroaki Harada, who has made the final table of a couple Aussie Millions preliminary events last week, raised to 15,000 from the hijack. Fetzer popped it back to 25,000, Harada shoved all in, and Fetzer, who would later clarify that he had actually miscalculated his opponent's stack, opted to call off for right around 50,000.
Fetzer:
Harada:
Fetzer had flopped top pair, but it was way behind the top set of Harada. Fetzer needed to catch running straight cards, and much to the dismay of Harada, the turn made it a possibility. Unbelievably, the spiked on the river to give Fetzer the improbably straight, and to crush Harada's spirits.
As Harada paced the tournament floor bemoaning his bad luck, the dealer verified the stacks and discovered Fetzer was the one at risk and Harada actually had 6,000 remaining. It was little consolation as Harada was eliminated a few hands later.
Andrew Chen was looking visibly tired but it's amazing what flopping quads versus top full house does to the system.
Chen was on the button and called a raise from a player in early position. The flop fanned and Chen flatted a 1,000 c-bet. Both players checked (trapped) the turn to head to the river. Chen raised to 7,000 when faced with a 1,500 bet and snapped his opponent off when he shoved for 12,200.
Chen quickly opened beating his unlucky opponent's .
Fabian Quoss f-bombed when he saw the hands of his two opponents at showdown. He explained another scenario where he could've won the hand.
The hand started with Quoss raising to 1,300 from early position before a player in the cutoff three-bet to 3,000. Andrew Chen was in the big blind and gave his call a lot of thought. Quoss also took his time in calling.
The board ran out with no more chips venturing forward until Chen bet 4,200 on the river. Quoss folded but the cutoff made the call.
Chen opened but knew he was no good. He was correct as the cutoff opened .
Quoss knew that if he'd called Chen's river bet then the other player would've folded. That thought process was conformed by his opponents.
A massive pot, one that shifted the chip lead, just went down over at Table 31 between Dan "jungleman12" Cates and Mustapha Kanit.
We're not sure how the action played out, but we do know there was around 30,000 in the pot when action exploded on a flop. A series of raises resulted in Cates getting his remaining stack of 75,275 all in and at risk against Kanit.
Kanit:
Cates:
It was an interesting spot for both players. Kanit won two massive pots earlier in the day courtesy of aces, while Cates busted the $100,000 twice yesterday holding kings only to be shown aces on both occasions. Here, at least for the moment, Cates had gotten lucky.
With approximately 180,000 on the line the dealer slowly burned and put out the turn. It was a safe card for Cates, but there was still one more card to come. The dealer burned a third and final time and put out the . Safe again.
"Finally won one of those," Cates said as smile beamed across his face. Kanit, who at one point was the chip leader with nearly 200,000 (nearly 40,000 more than the Day 1a chip leader), silently cut out chips from his stack and sent them across the table. With that, Cates has seized the chip lead.
Daniel Cates crippled Jamie Pickering in a hand earlier but the Aussie dug his heels in and made a great comeback to get back above starting stack. He's since dropped back a bit after losing a pot to Fabian Quoss but going ok with 24,000.
He raised from the cut-off and called after Quoss three-bet the button. Pickering called and both players checked the board down. Quoss waited for Pickering to open before he claimed the pot with .
Moments later, on an adjacent table, Shyam Srinvasan raised his button and bet 1,300 on a flop. The big blind called both times before the two players checked down the turn and river. Srinvasan announced he had ace-king and lost out to the of his opponent.