Nevertheless, next hand he's at it again, raising preflop to 64k and picking up some chunky 12k/24k blinds, replastering the small crack made in his stack by Kid Poker...
2009 World Series of Poker Europe
£10,000 WSOPE Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Nevertheless, next hand he's at it again, raising preflop to 64k and picking up some chunky 12k/24k blinds, replastering the small crack made in his stack by Kid Poker...
The turn was the and they checked that too, and ended up looking at a river. Negreanu bet out an experimental 95,000, and without a second though Ristola passed, putting Negreanu back above the million mark on 1,018,000.
Bjorin:
Negreanu:
The board emerges: ... ... meaning that Bjorin evens up their stacks to 800k and 900k respectively.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 3,000
The turn brought the and a bet of 129k from Mercier. Nereanu counted out one of his comparatively diminutive stacks, did some cut'n'thread type chip fiddling, briefly appeared to stick his tongue out at the unfazed Mercer and ultimately announced all in!
Call - and fast - and not surprising as the turn had just created a set-over-set situation:
Mercier:
Negreanu:
The river failed to upset the status quo with a one-outer (it was the ) and Negreanu gets the full double up to 1,315,000, while Mercier will have to make do with 2,475,000.
The next hand, Saout makes it 50k to go in the cutoff, but gets the pesky button making it 150k. This time, the man with the button is Matt Hawrilenko, who with little dwell time from his opponent simply takes it down.
Flop:
Mercier, whose ridiculously tall stacks look in danger of falling over every time he dips into them for chips, bet out. Ristola stared very hard at the table for a while, and then raised to 180,000. Mercier checked his hole cards to make sure they hadn't magically turned into two completely different cards, or possibly even to discover what he actually had -- either way, he checked them, dwelled for a little while, and then made the call.
Turn:
Mercier checked, and Ristola promptly moved all in. A quick fold later, and Ristola was up to 965,000. Mercier dropped to a still dominant 3,064,000.