Michiel Brummelhuis proved no match for the of Bogdanov soon after La Boissonniere s demise. Brummelhuis three-bet Bogdanov s preflop raise before open-shoving for 76,869,147 into a 63,480,000 pot on the flop. Bogdanov called with his two pair, which held as the turn and river bricked.
Kings No Good For Villegas
Amazingly, the run of big hands being useless continued when Mexico-based
Sebastian Hoyos Villegas found in the hole. Villegas was down a shade over ten big blinds when he looked down at kings. He jammed all-in from under the gun, and Bogdanov called from the big blind with
. Bogdanov flopped two pair as the five community cards fell
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WPT #05 High Roller is slated to kick off at 9:05 p.m. CEST for players to buy-in for $10,300 to win a share of the
$1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Players will start with 100,000 chips in their starting stacks and the first two levels of the day feature a small blind of 500, a big blind of 1,000, and a running ante of 100 and 125 in the second level. The level duration will be at 20 minutes each for the first 20 levels of the tournament and then increase to 25 minutes. Play will end today once the money stages have been reached and the remainder will be played out on Monday, May 16.
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International German Championship 1981
In 1981, as is well known, the Iron Curtain was still up, and the ‘Wall’ still had a few years of life ahead of it. Moreover, the Cold War was ‘hotter’ than ever. But the Iron Curtain was not equally impermeable to every citizen of an Eastern bloc country.
While citizens of the German Democratic Republic were indeed hermetically sealed off from the West, Romanian or Bulgarian grandmasters could travel to tournaments in capitalist countries. Victor Ciocaltea (on the teaser picture, the Romanian grandmaster is the one getting up from his chair) finished sixth in Bochum, just two years before his death. His compatriot IM Mihail Ghinda (born 1949) also played, as he often did in Western territory.