Catching the action on fourth, Richard Ashby led the betting on all streets until the river where he checked in the dark. His opponent was Ian Gordon and he checked behind.
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Pair of sixes for Gordon but Ashby takes it with a pair of jacks. Gordon slips to 1.95 million with Ashby at 2.5 million.
Richard Ashby and Eugene Katchalov mixed it up in a giant stud pot.
Ashby: (X-X) / / (X)
Katchalov: (X-X) / / (X)
Ashby completed, and Katchalov raised. "Last hand, boys," Ashby told his rail as he made the call. Katchalov bet all the way through seventh, and Ashby called each one though Eugene's board just got scarier and scarier. Then Ashby said "two pair," showing he'd started with buried jacks and caught the on the end. Katchalov said "aces" under his breath as he mucked. It seems Ashby's luck is back.
Eugene Katchalov completed and Richard Ashby made the call after bringing it in. Katchalov bet on fourth before Ashby led the betting on fifth and sixth. Ashby checked the river and Katchalov checked behind.
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Not overly impressive boards but Katchalov caught a ten-seven on the river as Ashby wasn't thrilled to see his ten-nine was beat.
Richard Ashby has just lost back-to-back pots against Eugene Katchalov. In the second hand, Katchalov raised under the gun and Ashby defended his big blind.
The flop fell and Ashby check-called the bet from Katchalov. The same went down on the turn before Ashby once again checked the river. Katchalov bet and Ashby open-folded -X-X for the nut low draw that missed.
Ashby is down to 1.5 million with Katchalov up to 2.8 million.
Ian Gordon raised, and Eugene Katchalov three-bet. Gordon called, and the flop fell . Katchalov bet out, and Gordon raised. Eugene called, then both checked the turn and river. Katchalov showed , and his aces were good enough to scoop.
Ian Gordon raised, and Marco Johnson reraised. Gordon made it four bets, and Johnson was all in for not much more.
Johnson:
Gordon:
Marco didn't want to see Gordon's ace-deuce low draw, but he quickly felt better about that when the flop brought three high cards and two spades. The on the turn gave Johnson a flush and ended the hand. After the irrelevant river, Gordon paid to double Johnson to 870,000. He was left with 2.4 million.
Matt Glantz opened with a raise from under the gun for all of his last 130,000 chips and action folded around to Richard Ashby in the big blind who insta-called with .
"I only looked at one..." said Glantz revealing the . He squeezed his other card and was thrilled to find the .
The race was on but the board bricked to leave Ashby's queens in front to take the pot. Glantz departs in 5th place for a collect of $135,040.