Somehow Martin Jacobson is still in this tournament despite running kings into the aces of Kevin MacPhee.
Jacobson was just moved onto the table and three-bet a MacPhee button raise whilst in the big blind. MacPhee called pre flop, a flop bet and a 36,000 turn bet before both players checked the river. The final board read .
Jacobson opened and a shocked MacPhee opened .
"Nits!", "Wow!", and "Sick!" came out of the mouths of the other table mates.
The pot went to MacPhee who's up to 320,000; Jacobson dropped to 108,000.
Artem Metalidi has been eliminated from the High Roller, his tournament coming to an end after a clash with Philippe Ktorza.
Metalidi got his chips in from the button holding and Ktorza called with . Neither player improved on the board, Ktorza's queen-high enough to bust out Metaldi.
Paul Berende and Adrian Mateos have been involved in back-to-back hands with each other and it is the former who emerged on top on both occasions.
The first hand saw Mateos open to 9,000, Berende move all-in next to act and Mateos fold what looked like . Berende showed the .
The following hand, Mateos opened to 9,000 again and Berende put up some resistance. Berende opted to three-bet to 22,000 and Mateos got out of the way and folded.
Poker can be a cruel game at times, as Vojtech Ruzicka no doubt knows. Ruzicka has just made a great call in a hand involving Andras Nemeth that went unrewarded and resulted in him losing a large percentage of his stack.
The action passed around to Roman Korenev on the button and the Russian raised to 8,000. Ruzicka was in the small blind and he three-bet to 21,500 only to see Nemeth, in the big blind, four-bet all-in for what turned out to be 106,500. Korenev got out of the way but Ruzicka exhaled loudly and studied his now sole opponent. After 45 seconds, Ruzicka called.
Ruzicka:
Nemeth:
Ruzicka thought he was ahead and he was right, but how that would change. The flop gave Nemeth an open-ended straight draw and although the was no help to him, the completed Nemeth's straight and Ruzicka handed over half of his stack.
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flop. No more made their way forward as both players checked down the 
turn and river.
and Troyanovski mucked.
.
and a shocked MacPhee opened 
.
. Neither player improved on the 
board, Ktorza's queen-high enough to bust out Metaldi.
flop gave Nemeth an open-ended straight draw and although the 
completed Nemeth's straight and Ruzicka handed over half of his stack.
