Teddy Sheringham led the betting from the cut-off as he opened to 6,000 and was called by Antonio Esfandiari in the big blind.
The flop of saw Esfandiari take the betting lead, betting 10,200. Sheringham made the call and the turn prompted two checks. The river of saw 'The Magician' make it 32,500 and that scared Sheringham away.
Teddy Sheringham opened to 4,400 pre-flop from the hijack position and was called by Jason Ross in the seat to his left in the cut-off as well as Antonio Esfandiari in the big blind.
The flop of led to a continuation bet from Sheringham to 6,000, raised to 16,000 by Ross and folded to by Esfandiari. Sheringham made the call to see a turn of . Sheringham checked, but Ross made it 30,000 and the former England striker folded. Ross offered the former professional footballer to pick a card, and he did so, flipping over one of Ross' holdings to reveal a .
Eric Le Goff raised to 3500 from middle position and when Dominik Nitsche re-raised to 14,000 from a stack of around 24,500, Le Goff got his covering stack into the middle.
Dominik Nitsche:
Eric Le Goff:
The board of saw Nitsche drawing dead on the river, and Le Goff, having only sat down recently, is one of the chip leaders.
We've had 37 entries and 10 re-entries so far tonight at the £2,000 High Roller, with 29 of them still in seats.
With players such as Erik Stukenboom, Jason Ross and Irina Nikolaidi all registering recently, players will have until the end of this level to buy in, whether for the first time or as a re-entry chance.
With a full Welcome Party laid on by 888Poker at the SkyBar for players participating in the High Roller, there will be a 45-minute hiatus to play as the great and good chill out over some champagne and canapés.
We'll be getting some chip-counts and will return with pictures of some of your favourites when play restarts at 8pm local time.
With just two players in the hand from pre-flop, we joined the action to find Kara Scott betting 2,700 from middle position into a pot of 6,800 on a flop of . That was raised to 6,700 by Carl Spicer in the small blind, but Scott didn't mind paying the extra 4,000 chips for the check-raise.
On the turn , Spicer bet 12,200. Scott moved all-in and Spicer called her stack off, putting the ESPN presenter and former Irish Open runner-up at risk.
Carl Spicer:
Kara Scott: [ JdQc]
Straight over straight, and after the river , Scott had doubled up to 133,400. Spicer, on the other hand, saw his stack decimated to just eight big blinds at 13,700.
Matas Cimbolas made it 2,600 to go from middle position and was only called by Artan Dedusha in the small blind. On the flop of , Cimbolas continued for 3,500, agains a bet that was called by Dedusha.
The turn was checked by both men, but the river of was bet by Dedusha, for 3,500. Cimbolas folded and the table captain swept another nice pot. While Dedusha is crushing on 154,400, Cimbolas isn't too far behind his adversary.