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Action folded to Vesa Leikos in the small blind. He checked on Chris Moorman's stack in the big blind and then raised to 38,000. Moorman reraised to 334,000 and was all in. Leikos called.
Moorman:
Leikos:
The board ran out and Moorman smashed the double to crippled Leikos.
This hand comes courtesy of our colleague Marc Convey from the PokerStars Blog.
Nicolas Levi is up to around 2,000,000 chips after winning a huge and vital flip against Garry Tevosov, who dropped to 90,000 chips in the process.
The Russian raised to 32,000 from the hijack before Levi three-bet to 75,000 from the button. Tevosov didn’t waste much time before announcing a raise to 170,000. That put the pressure right back on Levi and he dealt with it by announcing he was all-in. Tevosov exhaled a large amount of air and said, “Okay, I call.”
Levi:
Tevosov:
The board ran . Levi looked at his opponent and said, “Stupid game.”
From middle position, Mads Wissing raised to 36,000. Action folded to Vesa Leikos on the button and even though he had just 18,000 behind, he folded. In the big blind, Patrick Renkers made the call.
The flop came down and Renkers check-called a bet of 43,000 from Wissing. The turn was the and Renkers check-called 92,000. The river completed the board with the and both players checked.
Wissing's {Ah] was second best to Renkers' and the chip leader added to his stack.
From early position, Mads Wissing raised to 40,000. Vesa Leikos called all in from the cutoff seat for 15,000 and Denys Drobyna called the raise from the big blind.
The flop came down and both remaining players checked. They also checked after the hit the turn and the completed the board on the river. Drobyna bet 25,000 and Wissing flung his hand into the muck right away.
Drobyna tabled the and Leikos showed the . The straight for Drobyna was the winning hand and Leikos was eliminated.
After Vojtech Ruzicka had raised to button to 40,000, Martin Finger three-bet to 100,000 from the small blind. Action folded back to Ruzicka and he put in a four-bet to 227,000. After a little bit of thought, Finger called.
The flop came down . Both players slowly checked to see the come in on the turn. After Finger checked, Ruzicka checked behind.
The river completed the board with the . Finger slid out a tall stack of yellow T25,000 chips for a bet worth 425,000. Ruzicka called.
Finger tabled the and had backed into a spade flush after flopping middle pair and a straight draw. Ruzicka mucked his hand and wasn't happy about it as he slipped to under one million. Finger is now chip leader with over three million.
In the hijack seat, Danyel Boyaciyan raised to 52,000. Rasmus Vogt reraised all in for 374,000 out of the big blind. After asking for a count and getting one, Boyaciyan made the call holding the . Vogt was dominated and caught making a move with the .
The flop, turn and river ran through to give Boyaciyan a straight. Vogt was eliminated and Boyaciyan climbed to seven figures.