Ana Marquez opened from under-the- gun plus one for 8,000 and was raised by Vit Blachut from Czech Republic to 21,000. The blinds folded and Marquez asked him, “How much you playing?” Blachut shrugged said “About three hundred (thousand).” Which was close to Marquez’s stack. She made the call and they saw a flop of . Marquez checked and made the call when Blachut bet 18,000. Turn and they both checked. River and both players checked for the final time. Marquez turned over . Blachut peered over and eventually gave the nod that her hand was good and the chips slid her way.
A hand that lasted almost 10 minutes just played out between Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Simon Deadman. The Brit raised to 8,000 from under-the-gun+1 and then called when Ladouceur three-bet to 19,000 from the cut-off. On the flop Deadman checked, Ladouceur bet 24,000 and after some thought Deadman made the call.
The turn was the , Deadman checked again and after counting down his stack a couple of times Ladouceur moved all-in for 74,000. After getting a count Deadman then checked his own stack, it was roughly 145,000 so the call represented about 50% of his stack. He had half a dozen of the purple 500 chips in his hand and began playing with them as he contemplated his decision. He tanked for four minutes before folding. Pot to Ladoucuer.
Not everyone is willing to gamble it up at this stage, and one table in particular is unwilling to double up a short stack needlessly as was shown in this hand. Paolo Compagno opened from under-the-gun for 8,000 and short stacked Sven Kriegerfrom Germany moved all-in. Romain Chauvassagne in the big blind certainly seemed to have a decision to make, presumably complicated by the open from early position. He made a reluctant fold and a frustrated Compagno showed before folding. Chauvassagne flipped over his before the dealer had a chance to collect it and commented, “It was a flip.” A flip he didn’t want to take as Kriegerfrom passed his cards to the dealer, face down.
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Jonathan Duhamel opened the hijack to 11,500 before Bertrand Grospellier made it 27,000 from the button. The small blind folded but Max Silver in the big blind seemed genuinely interested. He made it 50,000 to go and Duhamel quickly folded. Not Grospellier though, he pushed all in and Silver immediately called.
Silver showed his directly and Grospellier almost already mucked his before a flop was dealt. He got up from the table and saw the dealer deal as the community cards. Before the river even was dealt Grospellier was already up from the table and in the arms of a lady escorting him to the pay out registration.
Andrey Grenko is up to roughly 375,000 after doubling through Dmitry Ponomarev. It was on the turn of a board that the main action occurred, Ponomarev bet 20,000, Grenko raised to 55,000, Ponomarev set Grenko all-in for 150,000 total and Grenko snap called.
Grenko: - top set
Ponomarev: - top pair top kicker
Ponomarev was drawing dead and is down to 240,000 after that hand.