Eugene Katchalov opened the action for 1,100 and faced a three-bet from Sergii Baranov to 2,600.
The blinds folded and Katchalov shrugged and threw out the calling chips. They then proceeded to check it all the way down to the river of a final board of .
“I have one big pair.” Katchaov announced and showed his the he’d hit on the river. Baranov tabled and the pot was pushed to him.
Antoine Vranken just doubled up his 7,725 stack when he got it in before the flop with up against . The flop might have given him some chills, but the on the turn and on the river were both safe cards.
"This was my plan!" he laughed, "This was my plan!" he repeated. "Your plan was to lose pots and then double with aces?" asked a smart guy at the table. Vranken just nodded with a smile.
Vranken had gotten unlucky early on he told us, running into trips twice early on. Now he's busy recovering, let's see where today takes him.
Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen raised to 1,500 from early position and the action folded to Andreas Berggren in the big blind. The Swede eyed the stack of the fellow Scandinavian and then moved all in. Jorgensen moved his remaining 7,200 chips forward and both players had the same hand in (Jorgensen) and (Berggren).
After the flop secured the split pot, but imagine the sweat if the turn and the river had shown up first along with the last flop card ... .
In a battle of the blinds, Steve O'Dwyer bet the flop for 3,200 chips out of the big blind and his opponent in the small blind called. The turn got checked through and the player in the small blind then moved all in after the river for 10,700 chips. O'Dwyer had that covered but eventually mucked.
She has $2.5m in online winnings and picked up her first live trophy in Prague this week. Luciana Manolea is on the verge of the big time, as PokerStars Blog reports.
We ran into Dutch pro Thomas Brader in the hall way, and he told us one of his famous hero calls had gone wrong this time. He had on a board of (with one diamond) . He hero called all in on the river but "Hij had pocket King Kong" which is, you might have guessed it, Dutch for "He had pocket King Kong".
Two tables over from Brader was sitting before the dinner break, his countryman Raoul Refos had a seat. Unfortunately that seat was vacant as well when we walked over. One of his former table mates told us that Refos had gotten unlucky with king-queen on a king-high board against ace-king. Refos lost the remainder of his stack to Roberto Romanello who now plays just over starting stack.
“Hey, are you busy now?” asked Leonid Markin, taking charge of the stack of chips given to him by the dealer as he took his seat. But the therapist was busy, and pointed instead to Zohair Karim in seat one, her next customer. Markin conceded graciously, but it would be his only real loss of the level, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
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the he’d hit on the river. Baranov tabled 
and the pot was pushed to him.
up against 
. The 
flop might have given him some chills, but the 
on the turn and 
on the river were both safe cards.
(Jorgensen) and 
(Berggren).
flop secured the split pot, but imagine the sweat if the 
turn and the 
flop for 3,200 chips out of the big blind and his opponent in the small blind called. The 
on a board of 
(with one diamond) 
