Christopher Brammer is still bossing his table and constantly adding chips to his stack.
In the latest hand, Maxim Panyak opened in the cutoff, Brammer three-bet in the small blind, Panyak responded with a four-bet to 12,200 and Brammer's reaction was to five-bet to 39,200. This last raise demoralized Panyak, who after 90 seconds of deliberation let his hand go.
After a series of preflop raises, Martins Adeniya was all in and at risk holding . Sergey Baburin had him crushed with , and the board ran out , sending Adeniya to the rail.
Roberto Romanello couldn't help having a little dig at Andrey Gulyy after the latter paid of a value bet.
Romanello opened to 3,800 and called when the Russian three-bet to 11,000 off the button. No chips made their way into the middle until the river when the final board read .
Romanello bet a small 7,600 and Gulyy called to see . Muck.
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We missed the action, but we can confirm that Anders Wessman just doubled through Freerk Post holding a straight flush. In the hand, the board read and Wessman had laid out in front of him. Post's cards had already been mucked by the time we arrived.
On a flop, Dimitry Gromov checked in the big blind, Maxim Panyak checked under the gun and Ramin Hajiyev took an 11,300 stab at the pot. Next to Hajiyev was Chris Brammer, who raised it up to 35,000, forcing the active players to fold back to Hajiyev.
Hajiyev looked puzzled by the raise and spent 20 or so seconds studying his British opponent before folding.
As the pot was being slid towards Brammer, Hajiyev asked "How much to see your cards?"
Brammer replied, "€500"
"€100," bartered Hajiyev whilst reaching into his wallet. After a little rummaging around, Hajiyev produced a €200 note, but Brammer flicked his cards into the muck. Balla!