Tony G and Erick Lindgren get it all in Preflop, with Tony showing , and Erick flips over the . The flop of pretty much seals Tony's fate. And the on the turn means the three remaining players can do no worse than $250,000 each for their troubles. Oh, by the way,. the river was the
Tony G finishes 4th. The remaining three players are in the money.
We're seeing flops on at least 1/2 the hands, but no really big pots. Seidel and Lindgren are in a race to see who can get into the pot with Masaaki first. At one stage, the chips got to almost dead even. Chip counts have been updated.
Masaaki Kagawa is beginning to leak away his chips. he got clipped for 200k when Erik Seidel re-raised his re-raise pre-flop, and he layed it down. Masaaki has slowly but surely bled chips, and is now the short stack.
As the evening wears on, Erick Lindgren has bought a round of beers for the rail. he looked at the floorman, and said "I'd like 31 beers - one for me, and 30 for the rail.' TD Brett Jones obliged, and everyone on the rail has a drink.
After watching his chip stack dwindle for the better part of two hours, Masaaki Kagawa decided to re-raise Erik Seidel with for the last of his chips. Seidel made the call with , and the race was on. A board of changed nothing, and Masaaki Kagawa was our third place finisher, and picked up $250,000 for his efforts.
Erik Seidel makes it 90,000 to go, and Erick Lindgren moves all in. Seidel takes some time, but eventually calls, and shows . Lindgren turns up , and is in business. A board of changes nothing, and Erick Lindgren has doubled up to take a two to one chip lead