Rui Milhomens raised to 90,000 in early position and got a call from Marty Smyth in the big blind.
The two of them proceeded to cagily check down the board until the river, when Milhomens looked very intense and bet 100,000. Smyth check-called, though, and Milhomens mucked when Smyth flipped .
Smyth - up to 1.7 million
Milhomens - down to just 600,000
Vivek Rajkumar raised from the button only for Benny Spindler, who reminds us of the 'emo' smiley on Skype chat, to reraise from the big blind. Rajkumar thought about it for a moment before pushing -- but an instacall later, he wished he hadn't.
But only very briefly.
Rajkumar:
Spindler: way ahead with
Board: bink!
Rajkumar accidentally doubles up to 1.4 million, while the hapless Spindler is crippled to 400,000.
Karim Bennani Smires pushed all-in over the top of Nikolai Senninger, who ummed and ahhhed but then called with , behind though to Smires' .
The flop helped neither coming and Smires walked away from the table not wanting to look, and he really was upset to see from afar the on the turn. The pain was short-lived though, the on the river made him the nuts and he survived to double through.
A monster of a hand was in progress when we looked up from posting the last exit to see former chip leader Michael Berry all in, his pocket in considerable trouble against Aaron Gustavson's pocket .
Board: a three-less
Thus ends the very excellent run of Mr. Berry. Not bad for winning a freeroll run by the Daily Mirror.
After knocking out Caprioli, and then winning this 2.986 million pot to eliminate Mr. Berry, Gustavson is our new chip leader.
He opened for 90,000 and Michael Berry made the call to see a flop, which bith players checked. They saw a turn and Berry checked again. Donev now bet 110,000, and Berry made the call.
They saw a third on the river and once more Berry checked. This time Donev bet what we can only describe as a bunch of chips, and after a swift fold from Berry, Donev took the pot.
Perma-short-stack Karim Bennani shoved under the gun, finally, for his last 250,000 or so. Clearly disturbed by this sudden decisiveness in a player who up until this point had seemed perfectly happy to blind away almost to nothing, everyone folded and he picked up the blinds and antes, thus upping his stack by almost half again.