Kitty Kuo opened the cutoff for 350 and found two callers. Vanessa Selbst on the button came a long and so did Carl Henriksson in the big blind.
on the flop and Henriksson checked to initial raiser Kuo. Kuo bet out 550 and Selbst raised it up to 1,400 rather quickly. Henriksson folded, Kuo called.
Both players checked the on the turn and the dealer placed the on the table for free. Kuo bet 1,675 and Selbst grabbed some more chips to raise it up to 7,200. Kuo thought about it for some time, but eventually folded.
After an under-the-gun raise to 400 and cold call, Rasmus Agerskov defends his big blind with the and discovers the flop with two spades. Fabio Sperling, who just won the Estrellas Valencia a few days ago, makes the continuation bet for 700, the cold caller did just that again and Agerskov now raised to 2,700. Sperling reraised to 6,000 and only the Dane called to see the turn.
He moved all-in for his last 12,000 and was snap called by Jacks for top set ... the river is a blank and Agerskov is on the rail. He will definitely be back for the high roller event on Friday.
Carl Henrikss, a Swedish PokerStars player, was next to tangle with Vanessa Selbst. The flop was and Selbst, first to act, bet 500. She was raised to 1,000 by Henriksson in the cut-off and she made the call.
The turn card was the and again Selbst took the aggressive line with a bet of 2,600. Henriksson reached for chips and made it 6,300. After some thought and a Selbst stare for good measure she announced all in. A quick check of the exact count from Henriksson before his cards hit the muck.
Kitty Kuo returned to the table to be informed by Selbst, “I’m not gonna play small pots. I’m just going to play big pots.”
We didn't see the action until the turn, but there was already 8,000 chips in the middle. Marcin Kreft bet 3,500 and Dragan Kostic from Spain check-called before both checked the river. Kreft turned over and that was good enough to win the pot.
The Frenchman won his seat through one of the live satellites at the Casino Sanremo and already doubled up his starting stack in the first two levels. He just slipped back to 52,000 though after paying off the of Matteo Taddia for 6,400 on a river. Unable to beat that, Guillemain mucked his cards ...