We just caught the chips being shovelled to Jose Carlos Garcia who had doubled up with against Emil Mattson’s . All in preflop the board ran out . Garcia doubled up.
Sergio Aido opened for 7,000, Marton Czuczor made the call and Ayaz Manji made up the difference in the big blind. Czuczor wanted to know how much Manji had behind which was 20,000. All three players checked the streets down and the board read . Mani flipped over for a river pair and it was good.
The final board read and Yann Dion had bet 27,500. Rasmus Agerskov was the player facing the bet and deep in thought. A few minutes ticked by and one player at his table, Ayaz Manji, was getting increasingly agitated. He complained about how much time it was taking for Agerskov to make his decision to which he calmly responded that he was within his rights to call the time. “I already did. Floor. Time.” Said Manji raising his voice. The dealer tried to calm him down, the floor was called and the countdown began. With one second to go Agerskov dropped a chip over the line to indicate a call and Dion turned over for the straight. “Nice hand.” Said Agerskov.
A couple of hands later Govert Metaal limped in the cut-off, the small blind made it up and Manji checked his option. The flop was .It was checked to Metaal who bet 5,100 and won the pot. Manji began his guessing Metaals hand, something he likes to do frequently. This time it ranged from ace queen, through to pocket fours. Metaal remained tight lipped.
Nikolay Losev raised to 5,500 preflop and was called by Alexander Dovzhenko before Eric Sfez made it 15,000 from the blinds. Losev and Dovzhenko both called to see an all-spade flop of . Sfez fired a bet of 15,000 and Losev clicked it to 30,000 while Dovzhenko got out of the way.
Sfez then three-bet to 60,000 and Losev called to see the on the turn. Sfez bet 90,000 and Losev committed his entire stack (which turned out to be 90,200).
Sfez:
Losev:
Sfez was behind but he could catch an ace, queen or spade to win the pot but the river was the , the blankiest blank possible. Losev is the new chip leader.