What a River... Again!
The river is the street that determines huge pots lately in the event, and especially in pots where the players are all in from the turn.
We just witnessed a huge pot that catapulted Ivan Ivanov into the chip lead with more than 500,000 chips!
Dimitros raised to 5,500 from the cut-off, Halkiadakis, called from the button, and "Cossack" followed from the small blind, as did Ivanov from the big blind.
The flop came 
and "Cossack" checked, Ivanov bet 11,000 and all players called, except Dimitros who folded.
The turn was the 
, "Cossack" checked again, Ivanov asked Halkiadakis how many chips he has since he was the shortest of the three players, and then he decided to bet 60,000 when Halkiadakis answered that he has 78,000.
Halkiadakis folded and "Cossack" announced all in for more than 170,000 with Ivanov calling after some deliberation.
Ivanov: 
"Cossack": 
A straight for the Greek guy versus a flopped set for the Bulgarian player, and a huge pot in the middle. The 
was devastating for "Cossack" since it gave a full-house to Ivanov who stand up and celebrated his big win.
"I knew it was coming" he said to us right after the hand, and it looked like he means it because he remained very calm when he saw his opponent's straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
540,000
269,700
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269,700 |
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Busted | |