Brutal Match Up Favours Benoit

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Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Benoit with over half of the chips in play

Anatoly Filatov opened under the gun with a raise to 30,000, which was called by everyone left at the table with the exception of Van Tiep Nguyen. The players took a flop four ways, with action checking round to Moritz Dietrich on the button, who put in a 70,000 bet. Benjamin Benoit made the call, with Filatov and Jack Sinclair both folding.

Benoit decided to lead the turn for 78,000, before Dietrich raised it up to 275,000, and Benoit moved all-in. There was no need for a count, as Dietrich called the shove immediately, turning over his for flopped second set. He was drawing to literally one card, as Benoit revealed for flopped top set!

Dietrich failed to improve on the river, but Benoit didn't, as the landed to give him quad nines. The chips were counted out, and it was revealed that Dietrich owed the modest sum of 1,646,000 chips, leaving him with fewer than 20 big blinds.