Our WPT colleague just caught a hand involving Tom Hall, who raised to 400 before the flop after which Jakub Michalak three-bet to 1,550. Hall made the call and the flop brought out .
Michalak bet 1,350 on the flop and Hall called, after which the turn brought the . This time Michalak bet 3,000 and Hall made the call after some tanking.
The river completed the board with the and Michalak threw out a hefty bet of 11,000. Hall gave it some though, this being for almost half his remaining stack, but in the end he called.
Michalak showed and Hall mucked, slamming his cards onto the table. Hall dropped to 13,000 while Michalak sits comfortably on 47,000 chips.
Many of the most successful Bulgarian pros have been spotted already, including Number 1 Dimitar Danchev, Number 4 Rumen Nanev and Number 6 and 7 Ognyan Dimov and Atanas Kavrakov. Just now we also saw Simeon Naydenov, who sits second on that list with $1.3 million in career earnings.
Naydenov made two Unibet Open final tables to kick-start his live tournament career before winning a WSOP bracelet in 2013 for $326,440 and two EPT final tables in 2012 and 2014 as well.
Russian pro Vitaly Lunkin has just arrived to play Day 1b of WPT Prague, and the number three on the Russian all-time money list is always someone to reckon with. Lunkin has two seven-figure scores under his belt, his biggest being the $40,000 Anniversary event at the WSOP for $1.8 million after beating Ike Haxton heads up.
Lunkin added another million dollars to his tournament results when he won the Super High Roller in Barcelona in 2013, and right now he has a staggering $6.2 million in live tournament results.
With a flop showing it was Robert Cranfield who bet 850 and Robert Layne made the call. The turn brought the and Cranfield bet another 1,550 and Layne made the call once more.
On the river the board completed with the and Cranfield threw out 3,500. Layne stirred things up with a raise to 8,500 and Cranfield opted to just make the call with . Layne showed for two pair, and a few players at the table glanced over at Cranfield who could've only been beat by one holding, .
"Straight flush?" Cranfield shrugged, even though he managed to rake in a big pot.
On a Marc MacDonnell just check-called a bet of 375 and on the turn the hit. MacDonnell check-called another 650 but on the river, when the hit, MacDonnell folded when his opponent bet 1,250.
MacDonnell dropped down to 25,500 after already having played and busted on Day 1a.
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. This time Michalak bet 3,000 and Hall made the call after some tanking.
and Michalak threw out a hefty bet of 11,000. Hall gave it some though, this being for almost half his remaining stack, but in the end he called.
and Hall mucked, slamming his cards onto the table. Hall dropped to 13,000 while Michalak sits comfortably on 47,000 chips.
and Cranfield bet another 1,550 and Layne made the call once more. 
and Cranfield threw out 3,500. Layne stirred things up with a raise to 8,500 and Cranfield opted to just make the call with 
. Layne showed 
for two pair, and a few players at the table glanced over at Cranfield who could've only been beat by one holding, 
. 
Marc MacDonnell just check-called a bet of 375 and on the turn the 
hit. MacDonnell check-called another 650 but on the river, when the 
hit, MacDonnell folded when his opponent bet 1,250.