Back in October, Jack Salter finished runner-up in the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific Main Event to Scott Davies. Salter returned to Crown looking for more poker success, but his quest was just cut short courtesy of Richard "nutsinho" Lyndaker.
It happened when Salter opened for 2,300 from the hijack and Lyndaker just flatted from the cutoff. The player in the big blind came along, and the trio saw a flop of . The big blind checked, Salter continued for 5,200, and Lyndaker popped it to 12,500. The big blind wasted little time in folding, and then Salter three-bet all in for roughly 50,000. Lyndaker snap-called.
Lyndaker:
Salter:
Salter had flopped bottom two pair, but he was essentially drawing dead as Lyndaker had flopped middle set. The turn left Salter drawing dead, and after the was put out on the river he took his leave from the tournament.
Dani Stern's day has come to and end after he fell to a hand known as the "Jake Cody" hand after he famously won a huge pot with it en route to winning EPT Deauville a few years back.
Stern was in the big blind and committed his chips with on a flop. The small blind called with and the board ran out .
Michael Guttmann was all in for his tournament life with the for 76,100 against the for Casey Kastle. The flop, turn, and river ran out , and Guttmann doubled up to leave Kastle with 87,000 in chips.
Mustapha Kanit's stack moved up to 205,000 after he emptied the clip on Beng Hooi Hooi Beh and got the him to fold on the river.
The Italian raised to 2,200 from the cutoff and went on to bet 2,600, 8,700 and 26,800 on each street of a board. Beh was in the big blind and stuck with him until the river where he folded after more than five minutes tanking.
While he was tanking, Phil Ivey eliminated Oliver Gill on a nearby table. Ivey only got the last few of Gill's chips as the damage was done a short while before when he turned jacks into a bluff on the river of a board. His check-raise all in failed as an opponent called with ace-queen.