Following recent bustout Juha Helppi is Eric Haik. He'd kept his short stack afloat for a long time, picking the right spots, it seemed to shove over preflop raisers (he even got William Thorson passing deuces). Recently Anthony Giuetti had given him a taste of his own medicine moving all-in over the top of Haik's preflop raise. A countdown occurred, but no call.
With this recent background, and with the hands they were dealt next, it was no surprise that an all-in confrontation occurred between Haik's and Giuetti's . Giuetti hit the extra hard too, and a resigned Haik left the table with a sad smile.
That double through seems to have turned a lightbulb on over Anthony Giuetti's head and put a heater under his cards - now over 225k he's one of the dark horses in the High Rollers tournament who's now moving up the chip table.
Just now he won a sizeable pot off ElkY: He called his under the gun raise to 10k along with John Kabbaj in the big blind. Kabbaj and ElkY checked the flop and Giuetti bet 19k. ElkY made the call. They both checked the turn, but on the river ElkY check-called another bet (around 45k), but mucked when Giuetti tabled .
Daniel Alaei limped preflop, and then called the 16,500 Tony G made it on the button. They both quickly checked the flop. On the turn, Alaei bet out 14,300. Tony G thought for a while, did some staring, and made the call. Another quick check on the river and Tony G found his to be good. Tony G then put in an order for a full double through, but I don't think this was accepted.
Double up for David Eldar just now. He check-raised a flop vs. Lev Myrmsky and the whole 150k ended up all in with his tournament hanging on his draw vs. Myrmsky's . The turn came the but the river was the at which Myrmsky briefly exploded into a frustrated run of syllables I had no understanding of. His rail sympathised.
Eldar said to Florian Langmann, "That was probably a bad check-raise. He looked pretty strong. Still - I needed the chips!"
Dan Shak, having made a couple of stabs at raisers with shoves of a not tiny stack, finally got into an all in preflop on-their-backs situation with Tony G. It wasn't a good one for him - Tony G had reraised him preflop with and his went nowhere with the board.
Down to 16 players in the High Rollers event - half of them will make the money.
While the High Rollers event has a colour-up break, enjoy the colourful Roberto Romanello, the chirpy Welshman who's been involved in some of the craziest hands of the tournament.
Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is the 16th place finisher, after he got his 63k stack in preflop wtih vs. Bertrand Grospellier's . It got better before it got worse - he hit the flop.
But the turn...
The river...
The rail went, "OOOooohhh" and Devilfish went home.
William Thorson - 190k
Vanessa Rousso - 85k
Ilari Sahamies - 220k
John Kabbaj - 94k
Bertrand Grospellier - 340k
Anthony Giuetti - 200k
Roberto Romanello - 250k
Randy Dorfman - 214k
Lev Myrmsky - 165k
Daniel Alaei - 430k
Florian Langmann - 538k
Tony G - 350k
David Steicke - 380k
David Eldar - 300k
Andrew Feldman - 151k
Having gained a few chips in less dramatic fashion, Vanessa Rousso has now topped 200,ooo courtesy of ElkY and a low flop. She raised preflop, and picked up Bertrand Grospellier for the flop. Now he bet out 22,000, and she moved all in for around 100,000. The rail held its breath as he deliberated and eventually called with . She turned over , but only allowed herself a very muted celebration when the sealed the deal on the turn.