In a three-bet pot between Alex Foxen and Dominik Nitsche, the flop of was checked through and Foxen bet the turn for 24,000, which Nitsche called.
On the river, Foxen had the size of the pot behind and checked. Nitsche splashed in a bet of 145,000 with very few chips behind and Foxen ended up using two time bank extensions before making the call.
Nitsche showed for two pair and Foxen briefly flashed his cards, they were then exposed to be .
Daniel Negreanu raised to 10,000 from the button and was called by Daniel Dvoress in the big blind.
The flop came , Dvoress quickly check-called the 8,000 continuation-bet of Negreanu.
The turn brought them the , Dvoress checked again.
"Okay, I'm going to do something goofy" Negreanu said and then flicked in a chip of 5,000 for the bet.
Dvoress raised to 31,500.
"That was to be expected" Negreanu remarked before making the call while he discussed his bet sizing with Matthias Eibinger.
The river completed the board with the .
"Well, that river doesn't change anything" Negreanu commented.
Dvoress bet 50,000.
Negreanu looked at Dvoress' stack and commented: "So you bet 50,000, so you look strong! Negreanu then decided to shove. The dealer counted out Negreanu's stack which was worth 194,500.
"What have you got? I thought you said that the river didn't change anything?!" Dvoress wondered.
Dvoress tanked: "I actually do have a flush..."
After using all four of his remaining time bank cards, Dvoress decided to make the call for the 152,000 he had behind.
"Flush," Negreanu said and showed the .
"You win," Dvoress said and then showed the which was the higher club.
"What do you mean? Negreanu asked.
"Oh, I somehow thought you had the higher flush" Dvoress apologized.
Dvoress showed the and Negreanu showed that his second hole card was the for them to confirm that Dvoress was really the winner of the hand and would double up.
Joining the action on the , Gregory Jensen checked out of the small blind and called a bet of 12,000 by big stack Nick Petrangelo. On the turn, Jensen check-called another 50,000 and checked again the river.
Petrangelo slowed down and checked behind to get shown the by Jensen, which ended up winning the pot.
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First to act, Adrian Mateos opened the action with a raise to 6,000 and Benjamin Pollak came along from one seat over, as did Sean Winter in the big blind. The flop was checked to Mateos and he bet 6,500, Pollak called and Winter got out of the way.
After the turn, Mateos slowed down and checked to Pollak, who bet 24,500 and picked up a call.
Mateos also checked the on the river and faced a bet worth 42,000 by Pollak. What followed was the check-shove of the Spaniard, which prompted Pollak to ask for a count. The all in was for 197,500, which represented a big portion of Pollak's stack. No call followed and the pot was shipped over to Mateos.
Steffen Sontheimer raised to 5,500 from the button and Byron Kaverman put in a stack of his biggest chips from the big blind to put Sontheimer all-in. Sontheimer counted out his stack, looked at his cards again, and then called for the 65,500 he had behind.
Steffen Sontheimer:
Byron Kaverman:
The flop came for Kaverman to flop a flush draw.
The turn brought them the which didn't change the situation and neither did the on the river so Sontheimer would double up.