Among those to bust were Dmitry Vitkind, Luigi Shehadeh and Mihails Morozovs. The latter got it in with king-queen against the ![]()
of [Removed:146] and flopped an open-ended straight draw. Both the turn and river were blanks, though, and that spelled the end for Morozovs.
2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona
Jakub Senk was all in and at risk for 186,000 with the ![]()
and Erik Peters looked him up with the ![]()
. The board came ![]()
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and Senk survived.
Ricardo Graells from Switzerland got it in with ![]()
up against the ![]()
of Nuno Pereira Ascensao. The latter did not improve enough as the king he hit improved Graells more: ![]()
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. Ascensao thought he was done but it turned out he had 23,000 more than the 230,000 Graells had.
Benjamin Richardson won a big pot off Rosen Angelov with trips sixes to leave the former big stack with spare change and Angelov's stack took another hit soon after.
Angelov shoved from the small blind and Johnny Hansen called in the big blind for 171,000 with the ![]()
. Angelov only had ![]()
and the board came ![]()
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.
Just prior to that, Dirk Gerritse doubled another short stack on the same table. Niek Minten three-bet shoved for 141,000 with ![]()
and Gerritse called with ![]()
. The board came ![]()
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and Minten survived.
Scott Wellenbach first doubled and then took most of Akin Tuna's chips in 2 big hands right before the break, and just finished the job by taking the remainder as well. Tuna made his last move with ![]()
and Wellenbach was waiting for him with ![]()
. No ten or other help for Tuna on the flop, turn, or river. Tuna, who had 1.3 million 5 hours ago, now out of the tournament.
Shiguang Zeng got it in before the flop holding ![]()
. He was the one at risk, having a stack of 236,000, and needed to improve as his opponent Hugo Gomes Andrade had ![]()
. Zeng found no help as the board came ![]()
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and Zeng was headed for the rail.
When we received the official counts in the break, we learned we had a new chipleader: Scott Wellenbach. Akin Tuna, a one-time chip leader, was down to just a few big blinds meanwhile.
We asked table mate Pim Kuipers who told us of 2 hands where Wellenbach beat Tuna.
1) Tuna opened the hijack and Wellenbach called on the button. Tuna bet the flop (![]()
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), turn (
) and 100,000 on the river (
). Wellenbach called the flop and turn and raised to 300,000 on the river. Tuna called but mucked as Wellenbach showed ![]()
suited for trips.
2) Wellenbach opened and Tuna called out of position. Tuna check-called a bet of ![]()
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and checked again on a blank on the turn. Wellenbach checked behind and a
completed the board. Tuna checked and Wellenbach bet 100,000. Tuna called but had to muck once again as Wellenbach showed ![]()
.
Ramon Miquel Munoz raised to 25,000 and [Removed:146] shoved for 251,000 from one seat over. Arezki Belaidi reshoved and Munoz let go.
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The board came ![]()
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and Guerfi doubled.
Former big stack Frederico Spilimbergo Volpe has taken yet another hit when he called the shove of Kent Roed for 202,000 with the ![]()
out of the blinds. Roed had the better kicker with ![]()
and the board came ![]()
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.
Erik Friberg opened the hijack for 30,000 and saw big blind Martin Aasen Lunde shove for 235,000 total. Friberg tanked for a fair bit before he committed his chips.
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The board ran out ![]()
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and Lunde exited.
Nadia Wanzi had Javier de Vicente all in and at risk for 169,000 and showed ![]()
. While the Spaniard was ahead with ![]()
, that suddenly changed on the golden flop of ![]()
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with Wanzi improving to a straight. Suddenly de Vicente needed a king to avoid elimination, but the
turn and
river were both blanks.