Catching the action with the board reading , Robert "Uncle Krunk" Panitch was all in and had one player covered while a third player gave them action having Panitch covered by just a few chips.
Panitch:
Shorter Stack:
Third Player:
With Panitch needing to fade a heart while improving to a bigger straight or full house to stay alive, the river brought the to ensure he improved, virtually tripling his stack to over 46,000 while eliminating one player and leaving the other crippled to just a few big blinds.
With tables and empty seats quickly filling up across the Blue and Silver sections here in Brasilia, the last open tables in Silver are slowly getting filled.
Consequently, tables in the Red section are now being set-up for play, and we expect to see players heading that way soon.
Philipp Gruissem raised to 300 from the cutoff, Pete Linton called from the button, and both blinds folded.
Gruissem then led for 600 on the flop and Linton called. Both players checked the turn before Gruissem fired a 1,275 bet on the river. Linton called, then Gruissem checked his cards and mucked.
Linton attempted to muck but the dealer said "show me a winner," and Linton flipped over the for a full house.
A player near the PokerNews blogging desk stood up and started to pack his belongings.
Upon further review we saw a board of and Yevgeniy Timoshenko's tabled as he cut down his all-in chip stack. With Timoshenko having his opponent covered, he scooped the pot and sent that player to the rail.
Allan Le opened to 250 and Chance Kornuth called out of the big blind. Kornuth then check-called a 400 bet on a flop before both players checked the turn.
Kornuth checked again when the river came into view. Le bet 650 and Kornuth mucked his hand.