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Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:48 PM Local Time
Level: | 19 | | Blinds: | 4,000/8,000 | |
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:45 PM Local Time
Max Pescatori limps in for 6,000 and Mike Leah checks in the big blind. They see the flop come . Leah checks and Pescatori bets 7,000. Leah calls. On the turn both players check, and they check again on the river. Leah announces two pair and Pescatori asks which ones. Ismael Bojang chimes in that sixes and fours would be good enough against Pescatori. Leah takes it down with .
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:41 PM Local Time
Benjamin Pollak limps in and Lawrence Lazar calls in the small blind. Roberto Romanello checks his option in the big blind. On the flop, all three players check. Romanello checks the turn and Pollak bets 14,000, Lazar folds and Romanello calls. The river completes the board and Romanello checks again.
Now Pollak makes it 24,000 to go and gets called. "You are good," Pollak sighs and shows the for a pair of aces. Romanello has the for two pair and wins the pot.
Benjamin Pollak - 150,000
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:34 PM Local Time
Ismael Bojang raises to 14,000 and gets called by Lawrence Lazar and Max Pescatori in the small blind. All three players check the flop, and Pescatori then bets the turn for 22,000. Bojang folds and Lazar waits, thinking. "Two queens you should call," Pescatori says, and Lazar calls.
The appears on the river and there are laughs all around the table. Pescatori checks and Lazar checks behind, the "Italian Pirate" shows the for a full house and wins the pot.
Max Pescatori - 190,000
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:24 PM Local Time
Max Pescatori limps in for 6,000 and so do Ismael Bojang, Lawrence Lazar, and Roberto Romanello in the small blind. Mike Leah checks in the big blind. On the flop, the action is checked to Ismael Bojang and he bets 25,000. Only Romanello calls, and the falls on the turn.
Romanello checks, and Bojang bets 68,000. Romanello calls. The river gets checked by both players and Bojang takes it down with for a nine-high straight.
Ismael Bojang - 350,000
Roberto Romanello - 300,000
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:18 PM Local Time
Mikkel Plum opens to 12,000 from early position and gets called by Lawrence Lazar on the button and Roberto Romanello in the big blind. All three players check the flop, and Romanello checks the turn as well. Plum bets 25,000, and Lazar folds. Romanello calls. The on the river gets checked by Romanello, and Plum fires a second barrel worth 30,000. Romanello calls.
Plum: for two pair, eights and sixes
Romanello: for a better two pair, kings and sixes
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:11 PM Local Time
The cards are back in the air and the button is in seat two with Roberto Romanello as single big blind, since Barny Boatman was eliminated in the big blind last night.
Max Pescatori already had reason to celebrate, because he won the color up.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:30 AM Local Time
Mikkel Plum is the start-of-the-day chip leader
The third golden bracelet will be awarded today at the first World Series of Poker Europe on German soil a,nd several top pros have made it to the final table of the €3,250 Eight-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha (Event #3) at the Spielbank Berlin. Mikkel Plum is leading the field with 482,000 in chips followed by UK's Richard Gryko (444,500). Plum sky-rocketed into the lead after eliminating Barny Boatman in a massive pot.
Another Brit takes the third spot on the overnight podium. Roberto Romanello has 320,500 in chips, while plenty of other highly talented pros also made it to the final. 2014 WSOP APAC High Roller champion Mike Leah (315,000), Lawrence Lazar (289,000), Ismael Bojang (232,000), Benjamin Pollak (195,000) and four-time bracelet winner Max Pescatori (142,500) complete a star-studded field.
All eight finalists are guaranteed at least €13,445 for their efforts. The WSOP gold bracelet as well as €126,345 are up for grabs to the winner. Pescatori won two bracelets this summer and is hunting important Player-of-the-Year points. The Italian can move into fifth place in POY rankings if he wins today. Bojang can move up all the way to fourth in the POY ranking. He as well as Leah also played the Monster Stack last night and bagged up chips there as well.
The action resumes in half an hour from now at 12 p.m. local time with 35:05 minutes left in level 18 at blinds 3,000/6,000.