Kevin Blackwood raised from early position and Jacob Elmore Dahl three-bet to 123,000 out of the small blind. Blackwood called and then faced a contination bet worth 161,000 by Dahl on the flop . Blackwood moved all in and was snap-called within a matter of seconds.
Dahl:
Blackwood:
The back door flush draw of Blackwood was gone when the hit on the turn and the massive pot was shipped to Dahl after the river completed the hand.
Phachara Wongwichit raised from under the gun and Sinan Aydogan three-bet to 145,000 from one seat over. Wongwichit set him in and Aydogan snap-called with the . Wongwichit was in desperate shape with and just one king on the board was not enough.
The double up for Aydogan was worth 481,000 and that's almost half of the stack of Wongwichit.
Andre De Melo flipped with against the pocket nines of Patrick Fletcher and doubled up to almost half a million in chips after the board ran out . Just one hand later, de Melo got his stack in again and this time he only had three outs. Sean Giesbrecht more than happily looked him up:
De Melo:
Giesbrecht:
The board came and the kings helped Giesbrecht into the overall lead, sending de Melo to the rail in 18th place.
Aditya Rao opened to 50,000 from the cutoff and Sean Giesbrecht called on the button to see a flop of . Both players checked and Rao then bet the turn for 55,000. Giesbrecht called, then folded the river to a second barrel.
Jacob Elmore Dahl was so impressed with his last double up he decided to relive the hand on his phone through the Pokernews App. By the time he had finished stacking his chips the hand was live on Pokernews.com!
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From the button, Stephen Koutsouvelis moved all in for 199,000 and the action reached Ferenc Riech in the big blind. The German snap-called with and had to face three aces in the deck, his opponent flipped over .
Unfortunately for Riech and much to the pleasure of the Australian rail, the flop provided two aces in . Neither the turn nor the river changed the outcome and the Aussies celebrated.