Terzian and Msika Out in First Hands

Jun 4, 2017

Dominic Terzian
Dominique Terzian

In the first ten minutes of the day, Dominique Terzian and Richard Msika got eliminated within seconds of each other. On table 20, Terzian saw a Spade JDiamond 10Club 7 flop in a four-way limped pot and he check-called a 35,000 bet from Alexandre Le Vaillant.

On the Club 9 turn, Terzian shoved his last 100,000 in and Le Vaillant instantly called with Spade 10Spade 8. Terzian was drawing very slim with [Kh9d] and was eliminated after the Heart 10 river.

Mere seconds after Terzian busted, Richard Msika open-shoved 253,000 with Spade 6Diamond 6 and Jonathan Khalifa looked him up with Spade ADiamond A. The board ran out Spade 7Spade JDiamond KHeart 5Diamond 9 and Msika was out in 15th place.

The extra seconds helped Msika, as he snagged the pay jump to $4,882. Terzian received $4,081.

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