Flawless Victory for Wiktor "Limitless" Malinowski Who Advances to Round 3

Wiktor “Limitless” Malinowski opens the button for 2,500 with  and Henri “ButtonClickr” Puustinen three-bets to 10,000 even with . Malinowski four-bets to 23,500 and Puustinen calls. The flop comes  in this already gigantic pot and Puustinen checks. Malinowski opts for a bet of 8,950 and Puustinen calls. The  on the turn goes check check and the  on the river completes the board. Puustinen checks and Malinowski shoves for 66,650. Puustinen, who has his opponent covered but only by a single big blind or so, isn’t thrilled about the situation but does decide to call. Malinowski shows the rivered trips and Puustinen is forced to continue extremely short.

The next hand, Puustinen gets it in with  up against the . The board runs out 8c6sAdJsJc and just like that, the match is over and Malinowski advanced to Round 3.

The entire best-out-of-three match between the two high stakes regulars took under ten minutes to complete with quick action, big bets, and monster pots. Malinowski scores the flawless victory, though looking at just the 2-0 for him paints a bit of a distorted picture as set-ups and bad beats were definitely part of the equation as well.