We arrived at the table with the board reading and approximately 7,000 in the pot.
Dan Shak was in the small blind and threw out 6,000 in chips. His opponent on the button was Rasmus Edenfall. He made the call before the dealer produced the on the river.
Shak quickly reached for his chips and splashed out another 12,000. Edenfall then went into the tank for over a minute before making the call only to muck his hand when Shak rolled over his for a straight.
After three limpers, Dmitry Nemirovsky raised from the button and Sabina Hiatullah just called before the player in seat one reraised to 5,125 with . Nemirovsky went over the top and Hiatullah got her stack in with pocket kings. The player in seat one got out of the way but Nemirovsky had an easy decision with pocket aces. Hiatullah spiked her two-outer and is the early chip leader.
David Lappin had just sat down and the dealer asked him to post his big blind, which he did. There was an open and then a three-bet before the action was halted and confusion reigned. It turned out that it wasn’t clear where exactly the button should have been and Lappin appeared to be under the gun with chips in and substantial action behind him.
The floor was called and the initial ruling was that Lappin’s chips would stay in. “That’s not possible. This is ridiculous.” was Lappin’s considered verdict as he had done what the dealer told him to do, and he wanted another ruling as he was entitled to.
Luca arrived to sort things out and Lappin, spotting him, got ready to muck his cards joking, “I already know the ruling is going against me.”
Luca then established where the dealer had dealt the first card and ruled that the button should be moved and Lappin would indeed be the big blind and the action as it had so far happened would stand. Lappin mucked, the initial raiser mucked and the three-bettor looked somewhat pained to win the hand and showed his .
“It’s a random game.” Luca told him. Sometimes it really is.
Igor Pihela Sr. raised to 300 and one player tossed in a T-500 chip before Nicolas Cardyn reraised to 1,100. Both Pihela Sr. and the other player called to see the flop and the action was checked to Cardyn and he made a continuation bet of 1,200. Pihela Sr. folded and the other player stuck around.
On the turn, Cardyn's bet of 2,650 was check-called again before the on the river triggered no further action. Both players revealed their cards and the of the Frenchman won the pot. On the table table is also Rasmus Agerskov and one table over, Manuel Bevand is seated.
On a board of we just witnessed Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst check call a bet of 3,600 from the big blind. Her opponent, seated under the gun plus one, almost instantly bet another 6,500 on the river. Selbst needed a little time to come up with her decision, but she made the right one in the end. She called and was shown for not much of anything. Selbst tabled the and dragged in the pot.
It looked like Vanessa Selbst had lost a small pot to one of her opponents and was quizzing him about what he had as the river hadn’t really turned out to her liking. He denied having a flush but said he did have a pair. “I know you had a pair. If I go all in would you call?” He nodded that he would, which got a raised eyebrow.
On the next hand Selbst opened for 350 from the button but folded to a three-bet from the small blind. The hand after that the player to her right opened for 350 and Selbst three-bet him to 900. It was his turn to raise an eyebrow but he threw out the calling chips.
The action was checked down to the river of a board reading where Selbst bet 1,500 and took the pot.
The info was relayed to us by one of the dealers who came to that table and it was his first hand dealt there. Ludovich Geilich raised to 375, an opponent made it 1,000 and the player that would later double up the Scotsman clicked it to 1,850. A raising war broke out that saw Geilich six-bet to 14,250 and the opponent just called to see the flop of .
Geilich bet 7,100 with 10,000 behind and then called all in with pocket aces when his opponent shoved with for queen-high and a back door flush draw. The turn and river bricked and suddenly Geilich has double stack, which we verified when walking past the table.
Jennifer Shahade won a €10,000 Open Face Chinese tournament this week for €100,000. The PokerStars Mind Sport Ambassador.turned her second biggest buy in event into by far her biggest ever cash.
David Boyaciyan finished runner up to Martin Finger here in 2011 for a staggering €535,000. The next year he finished third for €310,000. He didn't cash here last year, but he's back for more this year. Coming of a runner up finish in the Master Classics of Poker Main Event two weeks a go, a tournament he won back in 2011 before he came to Prague, Boyaciyan is ready for another deep run.
Chris Moorman is about as well known an online player as you can find them in the poker world. Moorman has been collecting online Triple Crown titles as long as we can remember, and he has a book out.
We arrived at the table with Evangelos Bechrakis facing an all in call after betting out 11,000 on a board. Joseph Cheong was his opponent and had moved all in over the top for 34,050 in chips. Bechrakis thought for over a minute before reluctantly making the call for his tournament life.
Bechrakis:
Cheong:
Bechrakis was drawing dead against Cheong’s turned straight and made his way for the exit after the completed the board.