We arrived to see PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos bet the turn of a board reading for 3,300 and his opponent laying it down.
Nothing too surprising in that but he added that pot to his increased stack and is currently playing 47,000 which is right around average. Let’s see what the Brazilian can do on a cold January night in London from there.
The battle at the top of the leaderboard has been tight for a while but recently Istvan Kinal from Hungary has emerged to challenge the top guns. He has just been moved to David Docherty’s table, another of the big stacks.
Kinal has position on Docherty so it could be an interesting few levels if they stay in the same positions.
Paulo Alexandre Lopes, Chris Da Silva and William Davies were involved in some preflop action when Davies moved all in for 43,500 and Lopes shoved behind for 89,700.
Da Silva said he had flatted preflop to call a shove but hadn’t reckoned on Lopes getting so heavily involved. He agonised about it for a while but let his hand go.
Davies had and Lopes . Da Silva said he folded Jacks.
The board ran out .
“Will Davies ladies and gentleman.” Da Silva said of the ace on the flop for his friend.
The flop was and James Dempsey led out from the big blind for 5,400. Constantin Erhan on the button raised to 11,000 and Dempsey had a decision to make. Neither player had a huge pile of chips behind them so there was little to no wriggle room.
Dempsey opted to call and saw the turn come the . Dempsey checked and a bet of 7,500 from Erhan saw a shove from Dempsey and a quick call.
Dempsey tabled for top pair but Erhan had a set with his .
The river was the and a double up for Erhan saw Dempsey down to fumes.
for 3,300 and his opponent laying it down.
and was up against 
and 
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and William Martin called. “You got aces?” Da Silva asked but the answer was no.
and Da Silva showed 
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. Da Silva said he folded Jacks.
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. Dempsey checked and a bet of 7,500 from Erhan saw a shove from Dempsey and a quick call.
and a double up for Erhan saw Dempsey down to fumes.
