Topakas Scoops; Eliminates Bloom and Eastwood
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In preflop action, Topakas opened with a limp of 300 from early position before Ken Eastwood raised all in for 575. Ashish Gupta called before Tony Bloom put in another raise to 875. Constantin Harach cold-called and Topakas came along for the ride.
The flop landed
and Harach fired out a bet of 300. Topakas created yet another side pot as he was all in for 350. Gupta, Bloom and Harach all made the call.The turn was the
and Harach fired again for 600. Gupta called as Bloom now found himself all in for his last 225.With only two live players remaining, the river was the
and Harach fired again with Gupta finally releasing his hand.With three players all in, the hands were revealed:
Harach:
Topakas:
Bloom:
Eastwood: mucked
Bloom held pocket aces but Harach had spiked a set on the flop with his queens. However it was not enough as Topakas ran them down with a running king-high straight. With no low on board Topakas more than triples up as Bloom and Eastwood are both eliminated on a wild hand!