Marius Pertea Doubles Through Paul Michaelis

After knocking out Oliver Boesch with the flopped full house, Paul Michaelis has just shown yet another big hand when firing two barrels against Marvin Rettenmaier.

Michaelis raised to 12,000 and Rettenmaier called in the hijack. On the flop, Michaelis continued for 12,000 and Rettenmaier came along for the ride before the second barrel by Michaelis on the turn was for 38,000.  Rettenmaier let his Action Clock run down to one second before folding and was shown the .

Soon after, the run good of Michaelis came to a crashing halt, though. The German raised from under the gun and DraftKings qualifier Carter Gent called. Out of the big blind, Marius Pertea three-bet and Michaelis four-bet all in to force out Gent. Pertea quickly called and the showdown came as follows.

Marius Pertea:
Paul Michaelis:

The board came and Pertea doubled for 196,000. “Wow I dodged a bullet there, I had pocket jacks,” Gent added while Michaelis took the beat well.

Marius Pertea – 420,000
Paul Michaelis – 300,000
Marvin Rettenmaier – 202,000
Carter Gent – 98,000