Pavel Binar from Czech Republic was all in from first position and it folded round to the Bulgarian Atanas Malinov who checked his cards and weighed up his options with one player behind still to act. He announced all in and the big blind folded. Malinov had against the at risk short stack Binar with The pair held up when the board ran out and Binar doubled up.
Malinov was in the big blnd next hand and raised to 4,000. Juha Helppi moved all in for 31,300 and Malinov closed his eyes. He had Helppi covered. He riffled his chips for a few seconds and made the call with and Helppi turned over . The board ran out and Malinov doubled another player.
If you've been paying attention to Twitter, you may have noticed some debate between high roller regular Dan Shak and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (with a little EPT champ David Vamplew sprinkled in). The point of contention seems to be a post we made in our blog yesterday, which you can read here.
Here are some of the Tweets between the parties involved:
Norway's Morten Klein got his last 63,000 or so all in preflop and was in great shape to double through Mike "Timex" McDonald.
Klein:
McDonald:
Both players held big pocket pairs, but Klein's was well out in front. The flop was as dry as could be, and the turn meant Klein had to dodge just to cards to stay alive in the tournament. Unfortunately for him, that proved easier said than done as the dealer burned and put out the .
"S***," Klein vented upon seeing the dastardly paint card. Klein composed himself, shook hands with McDonald, and then took his leave from the High Roller.
All in pre-flop, Paul Volpe had the suited connectors against the of Anirudh Seth. The board ran out . Volpe left the table and Dan Shak grinned at Seth. “You would expect to get a sweat off that.” Seth said that he at least expected to see the on the flop.
The floor was called to table 10 where Martin Hanowski was unhappy that he checked it to Nadar Kakhmazov in the last hand and Kakhmazov had checked it back with the nut flush, something that is not allowed. Kakhmazov explained to the floor that the flush had come in on the river and he hadn’t realised he had it, thinking he just had middle pair. The floor explained that the penalty is usually one round, but in this case it was ruled a genuine mistake and he would only to sit out four hands. That seemed to satisfy everyone and play resumed.
Thomas Muhlocker opened for 4,200 on the first hand of the day and Isaac Haxton in the small blind nodded in thought and then made a raise to 18,000. The big blind folded and Muhlocker checked his cards once again before passing them to the dealer. Folded to Haxton on the button next hand he opened for 9,000 and the blinds folded. He was in the cut-off next hand but didn’t push his luck and declined to try to make it three in a row.
A short-stacked Radif Sharifullin got his chips all in preflop holding the and was racing against the of the Czech Republic's Pavel Binar.
Sharifullin seemed happy to at least be in a flip situation, but his enthusiasm quickly waned as the board ran out an uneventful . Sharifullin failed to his one of his overs and his High Roller experience came to an end here in the opening minutes of Day 2.
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against the at risk short stack Binar with 
The pair held up when the board ran out 
and Binar doubled up.
and Helppi turned over 
. The board ran out 
and Malinov doubled another player.
flop was as dry as could be, and the 
.
against the 
. Volpe left the table and Dan Shak grinned at Seth. “You would expect to get a sweat off that.” Seth said that he at least expected to see the 
on the flop.
. Sharifullin failed to his one of his overs and his High Roller experience came to an end here in the opening minutes of Day 2.