Tobias Reinkemeier doubled up straight away, again holding ![]()
. He got looked up by Ivan Soshnikov who had ![]()
in the big blind. The board ran out ![]()
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and Reinkemeier doubled his 165,000 stack.
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The hand started with Martin Jacobson raising to 35,000 from under the gun. He was called by Stephen Chidwick in the cut off as well as Leonid Markin in the blinds and the three watched the flop come down ![]()
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.
Both Markin and Jacobson checked their option prompting Chidwick to lead out for 65,000. The bet only interested Markin as Jacobson got out of the way.
The
landed on the turn and again Markin check called a bet, this time totalling 125,000 in chips.
Chidwick stared Markin down as the dealer produced the
on the river. Markin motioned towards his chips and splashed out a bet worth 230,000 in chips. Chidwick then looked at the board and paused for a minute before finally letting go of his hand.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy opened the cutoff to 35,000 and Tobias Reinkemeier on the button raised to 300,000 with just 134,000 behind. Connor Drinan in the small blind thought about it for quite some time, before calling all in for 288,000 total. The big blind and Troyanovskiy quickly folded and the remaining two players flipped open their hand.
Tobias Reinkemeier: ![]()
Connor Drinan: ![]()
The flop was still save for Reinkemeier with ![]()
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, but the
on the turn wasn't. The
on the river improved Drinan's hand to a straight and Reinkemeier continued short.
Nível: 14
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Juha Helppi raised to 32,000 and was called by Jean-Noel Thorel in the small blind and Leonid Markin in the big blind. On the
flop, the action was folded to the Finn and Helppi made a continuation bet of 50,000. Both Thorel and Markin called and the
on the turn saw the instant all in of the Frenchman.
Markin asked for a count and then made the call for 147,000, it took far longer for Helppi to make up his mind. The Finn counted out his total stack carefully and then also called to go three-way to the
river. Both Markin and Helppi checked and Thorel showed
for a busted gut shot and open ended straight draw.
Markin had that beat with
for middle pair and a flush draw that didn't complete and Helppi turned over
with a huge sigh of relief. "Nice hand," Markin said and both players are now almost on the same stack.
After the previous beat for Mustapha Kanit, the Italian flat-called a raise to 35,000 by Tobias Reinkemeier and Brian Roberts as well as Vladimir Troyanovskiy in the blinds tossed in the extra chips as well. On the
flop, the action was checked to Reinkemeier and he bet 80,000, which was only called by Kanit. On the
turn, the Italian got his remaining 271,000 chips in with
and Reinkemeier looked him up with
. The
on the river was a brick and Kanit doubled.
One hand later, Kanit opened to 33,000 from early position and Reinkemeier defended his big blind. On the
flop, the German check-called a bet of 36,000 and did so again on the
turn for 107,000. The
on the river triggered another check by Reinkemeier and he then faced a hefty bet of 316,000.
"You gonna take all my chips now?" he asked towards Kanit. Some small talk back and forth followed and Reinekemeier ultimately made the call. Kanit announced a flush and then tabled
, which would take down the pot. Both players have exchanged their roles in the leader board within a matter of 10 minutes.
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Martin Jacobson opened to 35,000 from the hijack and his neighbor Juha Helppi in the cutoff made the call. Stephen Chidwick thought about it for a little bit, and all of the sudden Jean-Noel Thorel announced "Reraise!" before pushing 191,000 forward. Chidwick knew enough, laughed a bit, and folded. Thorel's three-bet stood and Jacobson moved out of the way.
Helppi wasn't so quick to give up though and thought for a bit. He eventually pushed all in for 588,000 and Thorel snap called.
"Ahh merde!" said Thorel with a quiet voice as he discovered his ![]()
was in bad shape against Helppi's ![]()
.
The flop came about as good as they could come for Thorel though: ![]()
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. Helppi was literally holding his breath as the dealer burned and turned the
. The
river followed not much later and Helppi now breathe a sigh of relief.
Brian Roberts raised it up to 40,000 from under the gun plus one before Mustapha Kanit bumped it up to 92,000 from the button. The blinds got out of the way before Roberts went into the tank. A minute passed before then made it 208,000 to go as the pressure was back on Kanit. He also took over a minute to make his next decision before opting to make the call.
The flop came down ![]()
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and Roberts checked. Kanit took the chance to bet out 130,000 and waited for Roberts to make a move. He eventually did, moving all in having Kanit well covered.
Kanit didn’t take to long to muck his hand relinquishing the large pot to Roberts.
The action started with Steve O’Dwyer moving all in for his last 98,000 in chips. As soon as Ivan Soshnikov folded his button, Ole Schemion moved all in over the top for 181,000 from the small blind. It took Martin Jacobson only a few seconds to announce call having both players covered.
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flop giving Jacobson the commanding lead over his two opponents. The board ran out the
and
to see Jacobson improve to a straight as he eliminated a further two players from the event.