Championship Warm Up ($600)

The action is folded to Germany’s Konstantin Held who opens from the button for 10,000. However, Chudapal Siarhei of Belarus re-raises to 22,000 from the sb. Held wasn’t done yet though, as he 4-bets to 56,000 prompting Siarhei to just make the call—out of position.

The flop comes A♦ Q♥ 9♠ as Siarhei checks and Held CBets to only 14,000, which gets the call from the Belarusian. The turn is the A♠ and this time, both slow down and check. The river is the 6♥ and further action commences.

The German shows T♠ T♦ while Siarhei is relieved to see that his J♦ J♣ survived to take down the pot.

By slowing down post flop, Held did not lose too much his stack.

In a battle of the blinds on a board of Q♠ 2♥ 8♣ 5♦ A♣ with the pot ballooning to 52,000, Andres Fajardo of Colombia bets 36,000 from the sb and gets the call from Germany’s Konstantin Held in the bb.

Fajardo shows Q♥ J♣ as Held mucks.

The Colombian, who just missed qualifying in Day 1A, now puts himself in a solid position to advance this time around.