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.
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.
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:
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.
Stipo Vladic had made it 22,500 on a board of and his opponent Martin Hanowski moved all in over the top of him with the bigger stack. Vladic looked pained and thought for a long time. The other players obviously respected that he had a genuine decision to make and gave him a decent amount of time, but eventually the clock was called. The 10 second countdown wasn’t quite reached when Vladic released his hand.
Andreas Eiler moved all in and Roman Korenev clarified that he really was all in and made a half reluctant call with . They had similar stack sizes but Eiler was the one at risk with his . The board ran out and Eiler doubled and won a big pot.
A preflop raising saw PCA champ Dimitar Danchev get his stack of 71,800 all in preflop against EPT London champ Robin Ylitalo.
Ylitalo:
Danchev:
Danchev immediately regretted his shove, but his verbal frustrations ceased when the flop delivered him the lead with middle set.
Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and Danchev doubled through Ylitalo, who was left with just 500 chips and eliminated in the very next hand.
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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.
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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 
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The pair held up when the board ran out 
and Binar doubled up.
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. The board ran out 
and Malinov doubled another player.
and his opponent Martin Hanowski moved all in over the top of him with the bigger stack. Vladic looked pained and thought for a long time. The other players obviously respected that he had a genuine decision to make and gave him a decent amount of time, but eventually the clock was called. The 10 second countdown wasn’t quite reached when Vladic released his hand.
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