HomeThe hand began with everyone folding to the button player Nam Le. Le raised double to 400 and found a caller in the small blind player however, the big blind player decided to get it all in the middle. Staring down at 6200 to call, Le contemplated and eventually moved all in himself. The sb player followed suit and they were on a three-way all in fiesta.
Le: K♥ Q♠
SB: 8♦ 8♣
BB: 3♣ 8♠
With the board running J♠ 3♠ 10♠ A♠ J♣, Le won with his flush and tripled up while railing one in the process. Le is now back over starting stack.
Yves Molin just eliminated a player in a hand that we only saw at the river.
Board: 10♥ J♠ Q♠ Q♣ 4♥
Molin had Q♦ 10♠ full house and was all in. His opponent called for his tournament life with A♦ K♦ straight.
After having survived against two players with aces, Michael Mariakis could not go any further when he faced Khac Trung Tran with cowboys. With raising action pre-flop, a pot of 2225 sat in the middle. The board then landed 10♠ 9♠ J♦ and next thing you know both players had it all in the middle. Mariakis had K♣ J♥ while Tran had K♦ K♠. With the turn of 6♣ and river of A♣, Mariakis bowed out and Tran scooped the pot.
Michael Mariakis tangled in a pot again with Taehyun Park and the result was the same as previous. During the hand Park min-raised to 300 and was called by both blinds, Mariakis was on the small blind. At the flop of 7♣ 2♠ J♠, action was checked to Park who bet 600 which was called by Mariakis. At the turn of 10♥, Mariakis check-called again, this time for 2000. Then on the river of 6♣, he did no different and check-called another 2000. Park won with A♥ A♠. Mariakis mucked.
Shortly after, Mariakis ran into another pair of aces, this time it was against Khac Trung Tran. Unfortunately we didn’t catch the action.
Looking down at one’s hole cards and seeing A-K a plan begins to formulate in one’s mind. In a hand between Khac Trung Tran and a player in the cutoff seat, both went head-to-head in a hand that began with a raise war and ended with the familiar all-in. At the showdown, both players had A-K off suit, and with the board helping neither improve, they resulted in splitting the pot.
Not quite a family pot, six players limped in generating a 1200 pot pre-flop. At the flop of 3♣ 5♠ K♥, Alex Stapfer bet 600 and got a couple of folds but not when it reached earph who raised it to 1400. Stapfer called. At the turn of A♣, Stapfer checked to earth who bet 2100 and this time Stapfer raised it up to 5000. earth called. On the river of 3♥, both players decided to check and found themselves splitting the pot with Stapfer holding K♣ J♦ and earth with K♠ 2♠.
Taehyun Park is on the move at his table. We just saw him win two pots in row. Unfortunately for the first one, we didn’t catch any of the action pre-flop but there was already a raised pot in the middle and a board showing 2♣ 5♣ 2♦. Michael Mariakis must have made a bet because we heard Park announce a raise to 3600. Mariakis called. At the turn of K♥ both players checked and same on the river of 3♥. Park won the hand with his 6♦ 5♠ mid-pair against Mariakis A♣ 3♣ lower pair.
At the very next hand, Park called a raise of 250 and went to see a flop of 4♣ J♠ 5♣. The initial raiser continued and bet 350 but Park wasn’t satisfied and raised it to 1250. That raise won him the pot.
Tetsuya Tsuchikawa earned himself a sizable 6850 pot here in level 2. Tsuchikawa started off the hand by raising to 300 from under-the-gun. A mid-position player and the cutoff seat player both called and they all went to see a flop of A♣ 8♣ 4♦. Acting first, Tsuchikawa led for 650 and got one caller in the cutoff player. At the turn of 3♥, Tsuchikawa sent out a continuation bet of 1000, and again he was called. Then on the river of 9♣, Tsuchikawa slowed down and checked to his opponent who bet 2500. Tsuchikawa flat-called. Tsuchikawa won the hand with his 8♦ 9♦ two pair.
From the hijack seat, Bryan Huang Diwei raised it up to 250 and was answered with a 650 raise by Bevan Nark Anthony. Huang made the call and both went to see a flop land Q♥ K♣ Q♠. Both players checked. At the turn however of A♦, Huang checked again but not Bevan who slid out a blue chip worth 1000. Huang quickly folded and Bevan claimed a nice small pot.