Early Fireworks

In a multi-way pot, Besim Hot squeezed to 3,650 and Jan-Peter Jachtmann folded whereas Miltiadis Kyriakides then called. "No ace please," the Greek said to the dealer and turned his face away from the table as well as announced a check in the dark. The flop came and Kyriakides asked Jachtmann if there was an ace, which the German denied.

Kyriakides then looked over and said "oh deuce deuce eight, man," before Hot asked the dealer for the size of the pot. It was 7,950 and Hot bet 7,800 and Kyriakides folded the . "Nice hand," Jachtmann said when he saw the cards and Hot cheekily turned over his . "The straight is coming, I know it," Hot added in German in the table talk.