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Global Poker League Week 9: Clean Sweep for Adams and Bonomo, Moscow Wolverines Lead Euarasia Conference
- Updated: September 22, 2016
An exciting day of Global Poker League heads-up matches played out yesterday. Two players even signed for clean sweeps in the Eurasia conference mano-a-mano fights.
Rome Emperors vs. Hong Kong Stars Timothy Adams vs. Weiyi Zhang
Timothy Adams was the first one to score three wins. The Rome Emperors player had Hong Kong Stars’ Weiyi Zhang on the ropes early on in the first match. With his king-five, he rivered a king to beat Zhang’s pocket sevens to take a 1-0 lead. In the second match, he quickly pulled away from his opponent. He got it all-in with two pair the pair and flush draw of Zhang. The river wasn’t one of Zhang’s outs and Adams was already secured the victory leading 2-0.
The last heat for the final three points was decided by two big hands in the end. In the first one, Adams flopped a flush against Zhang’s two pair. In the second hand, the king-queen from Zhang couldn’t beat Adams’ ace-six and the Canadian scored the clean sweep, earning nine crucial points for the Emperors.
Moscow Wolverines vs. Paris Aviators Anatoly Filatov vs. vs. George Danzer
The first two heats were lengthy battles but in the end, Filatov came out on top. In the last hand of the first heat, Danzer’s …
