Hands #57-63: Final Five Players

Feb 23, 2025

HAND #57: Ankit Ahuja opens to 200,000 in the cutoff and Dominik Nitsche calls in the big blind. Nitsche checl-calls for 200,000 on the Diamond KClub 8Club 3 flop and check-folds the Heart J turn when Ahuja bets 375,000.


HAND #58: Nitsche raises to 300,000 in the small blind, Supakit Anukoolpitaknil calls in the next seat. Nitsche bets once for 225,000 on the Spade 8Spade 5Diamond 4 flop, then check-folds once again on the Diamond 2 turn when Anukoolpitaknil makes it 325,000 to go.


HAND #59: Artem Vezhenkov raises to 200,000, Ahuja comes along from his big blind to check-fold the Spade ASpade KClub 10 flop when facing a bet worth 125,000.


HAND #60: Nitsche opens to 200,000 and Ronald Haverkamp calls in the big blind. Following a Heart JHeart 5Heart 2 flop, Haverkamp check-calls for 100,000. They check the Spade K turn and Spade 8 river. Haverkamp tables Spade QHeart 10 and Nitsche wins the pot with the Diamond AHeart 9.


HAND #61: Ahuja raises the button to 200,000 and Haverkamp calls in the small blind. The Dutchman checks on Heart 9Club 7Spade 2 and Ahuja takes down the pot with a bet of 450,000.


HAND #62: Anukoolpitaknil makes it 200,000 to go first to act, Ahuja and Nitsche call. They check down the entire board of Diamond 10Spade 5Diamond 2Club KHeart 8 and Nitsche declares “I win” before exposing his Spade KDiamond 5. He adds “I was hoping one of you guys had a king”.


HAND #63: Vezhenkov opens to 225,000 on the button, Nitsche in the small blind and Anukoolpitaknil in the big blind call. They check the Diamond JHeart JHeart 3 flop to the Club 10 turn. Nitsche checks, Anukoolpitaknil bets 350,000 and Vezhenkov folds.

“You guys can go on break,” Nitsche says as he lets the last few seconds of the clock for this level run down before heading into the break.


Seat 1. Ronald Haverkamp – 5,350,000 (54 bb)
Seat 3. Artem Vezhenkov – 3,550,000 (36 bb)
Seat 4. Dominik Nitsche – 9,225,000 (93 bb)
Seat 5. Supakit Anukoolpitaknil – 6,900,000 (69 bb)
Seat 6. Ankit Ahuja – 11,725,000 (117 bb)

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