Pedro Garagnani opened to 1,250 from the hijack. Anatoly Filatov three-bet to 4,980 from the cutoff before Bert Stevens four-bet to 13,075 from the small blind. Garagnani folded and Filatov called to see the flop.
Stevens fired out for 9,366 and Filatov called. Both players checked the turn.
The river completed the board and Stevens check-called a big bet of 41,862. Stevens turned over for a set and Filatov won the hand with a flush after he showed .
Francisco "VaPaCooler" Benitez opened for 1,000 from the cutoff and was called by Michael Watson in the big blind.
Watson check-called a bet of 1,802 on the flop before he check-called a bet of 7,500 on the turn. Watson then led out for 5,750 on the river and Benitez called.
Both players had top pair with Benitez holding and Watson with . But Watson had the better kicker and won the pot.
The cards are virtually in the air for the $10,300 Super Tuesday at GGPoker. The action began with 30 players, a figure likely to grow in a huge way with unlimited re-entries permitted during the 280-minute late registration window.
The $150 million guaranteed GG Spring Festival (GGSF) continues to rocks on with five events (15 tournaments broken out between Low, Medium, and High) on Tuesday, April 6.
This, of course, includes today's $1 million guaranteed GGSF H-15 $10,300 Super Tuesday starting at 8:05 p.m. CEST (2:05 p.m. EDT).
The event is a deep-stacked one-day affair with players starting off with 100,000 in chips, which is good for 200 big blinds. Blinds increase every 15 minutes until the final table is reached after which blinds will increase every 15 hands. The final table blinds will also be pushed back so that the average stack is at least 40 big blinds if the average is less than that before the start.
As is the case in most tournaments at GGPoker, the Super Tuesday will be eight-max until the final table which initially will seat nine players.
Players will have plenty of opportunities to build a huge stack with unlimited re-entries allowed until the 280-minute late registration window closes.
About two hours prior to the start, some of the early entrants included the GGPoker ambassadors Felipe Ramos and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Also registered early were Rainer Kempe, Wiktor Malinowski, Rui Ferreira, Darren Elias, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Jans Arends, Enrico Camosci, David Peters, and Niklas Astedt.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we will be reporting this event from the point cards are virtually in the air to a winner is crowned.