The board was and Philipp Gruissem bet 35,000. Anatoly Gurtovoy then moved all in and had Gruissem covered.
Gruissem went deep in the tank. Eventually he made the call. It was Gurtovoy who had to turn his cards over first and he did so reluctantly showing the .
“Shit.” said Gruissem who was not expecting to see that and turned over .
The turn gave him his flush though and a double up. The on the river was irrelevant.
With Ole Schemion's bust out, and the redraw to 24 at hand, we missed Anatoly Filatov's bust out. Luckily, a Russian reporter and Andrew Chen filled us in on what had happened.
On a flop three players checked. Anatoly Filatov bet out 20,000 on the -turn and Andrew Chen was the sole caller, Kitai folded. The fell on the river and Filatov checked with about 120,000 behind. Chen moved all in and Filatov made the call holding . That wasn't good enough, Chen had for quads and eliminated Filatov.
Chen was all in on the bubble with queens to kings and spiked a queen to stay alive. Now he has a monster stack of almost 760,000. By the elimination of Filatov, all the players are guaranteed €56,700.
In the latest, Aleksei Platonov opened for 28,000 from middle position and action folded to Stephen Chidwick in the big blind. He announced that he was all in, and Platonov wasted little time in calling off for 150,000 or so total.
Platonov:
Chidwick:
Chdiwick only had a week ace, but it got stronger after the flop paired the bullet. The turn left Platonov drawing dead, and after the was put out on the river for good measure, he made his way to the payout desk in 23rd place to collect €56,700.
Noah Schwartz opened on the button for 20,000 and Mike Watson moved all in for fewer than 200,000 chips from the small blind. Martin Finger just made the call from the big blind, but Schwartz folded and left them to it.
Watson:
Finger:
The cards ran out . No cracking aces for Watson and he joined the fast increasing list of people heading to the pay-out desk.
On an flop it was Ismail Erkenov who had 42,000 in front of him in middle-late position. Vasily Kylukin had raised it up to 100,000 out of the big blind and Davidi Kitai had made it 169,000 behind him under the gun. Erkenov folded, but Kylukin made the call.
Both players checked the on the turn. The river came the and Kylukin bet out 95,000. Kitai announced his all in. Before we could count how much it exactly was, Kylukin had mucked showing the .
On the turn of a board, Noah Schwartz had checked and Martin Finger bet 58,000. Schwartz, who'd picked up a WSOPE bracelet last year, thought briefly before making the call to see the on the river.
Schwartz checked again and Finger bet 155,000 - most of Schwartz' remaining stack. The American took about five minutes before eventually folding.
Finger let his opponent turn over one of his cards and Schwartz picked the and let out a wry smile, though Finger told him the hand was jack-three.
On an flop we were just in time to see Calvin Anderson check-call a bet from the small blind. His opponent was Davidi Kitai on the button.
The turn brought the into play and Anderson now check-called another 66,000. The river was the and Anderson checked again. Kitai placed 117,000 in the middle and Anderson called reluctantly.
Kitait showed his first, but that hand was no good as Anderson tabled .