Mikita Badziakouski open-shoved from the cutoff for 207,000 chips and the action folded around to Dominik Nitsche in the big blind. He peeked at his cards and then quickly announced "I call."
Badziakouski:
Nitsche:
The board ran out and the ace-kicker won the pot with barely any sweat.
Mukul Pahuja limped from the button and Martin Finger called in the small blind, Dominik Nitsche checked his option in the big blind. They all checked down the flop and the turn before Finger bet the river for 43,000. Nitsche and Pahuja folded.
The very next hand, Finger limped from the button and Nitsche moved all in for 196,000 from the small blind to win the pot without showdown.
Bryn Kenney raised and then called the shove of Roberto Romanello out of the small blind for 172,000 with . It was a flip against the of the Welsh wizard and Romanello found a queen on the board to double up.
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau arrived a bit late and then defended his big blind against the open raise of Byron Kaverman. On the river of a board, he checked and Kaverman put him all in. The Belorussian tanked for two minutes, trying to get any kind of information from his opponent, and folded.
Mikita Badziakouski was the initial raiser from the cutoff and found one caller in Mukul Pahuja on the button. On the flop , Badziakouski continued for 43,000 and was called before both players checked down the turn and river. Badziakouski flipped over and Pahuja took it down with the .
Shortly after, Badziakouski opened to 36,000 and Martin Finger on the button as well as Ezequiel Kleinman in the big blind called. On the flop , the action was checked to Finger and he bet 48,000. Kleinman folded but Badziakouski called. The on the turn was checked through and Badziakouski also checked the river.
Finger made it very expensive and fired a bet worth 175,000. Badziakouski thought about it for a long time and then called to get shown by Finger. "Nice hand," the Belorussian sighed and Finger replied with a "lucky run out."
Ihar Soika raised to 32,000 from the button and Kevin MacPhee moved all in for 236,000 from one seat over. Senh Ung in the big blind asked for a count and then moved all in himself to get Soika out of the pot.
MacPhee:
Ung: [10,10c]
The board ran out and MacPhee found a fortunate double.
On the turn, Ihar Soika bet 48,000 out of the big blind and Roberto Romanello as initial raiser called. The fell on the river and Soika fired 132,000 for more than half of his remaining stack to enforce a fold.
Table 3 has had a less-than-quiet start with Sean Winter shoving twice uncontested and Mikalai Vaskaboinikau getting it in with only to chop with Vladimir Dobrovolskiy's .
A hand later, Dobrovolskiy opened to 40,000 under the gun, Patrick Uzan three-bet to 110,000 on his direct left and Byron Kaverman four-bet, making it 230,000 from the big blind.
Dobrovolskiy and Uzan both folded, allowing Kaverman to pick up the biggest pot so far without a showdown.