Sam Trickett made the opening raise and both David Steicke and Allen Bari called, before Ross Boatman went all in. Trickett and Steicke both got out of the way, but Bari now called all in.
Boatman was ahead.
Boatman:
Bari:
Board: a bink-tastic
Bari doubled to 195,000. Boatman meanwhile was crippled to just 20,000 or so.
A player with about 80,000 chips left in front of him got that stack all in before the flop with , and that was going to get him in trouble. Joep van den Bijgaart woke up with across the table, and he put the shorter stack at risk.
The board ran down , and that's a knockout for the Dutchman. It moves him up to 265,000, just the latest chip trend in his volatile day.
Matt Perrins pushed all-in for 94,500 on the river of a board against a Partouche-shirt wearing opponent. With the pot swelling over 100,000, his opponent tanked for a few minutes before finally calling.
Perrins flipped for the nut flush which was more than good enough as his opponent simply mucked. The IPT Venice winner is now up to 265,000
Tom Marchese quietly slipped in a raise to 6,500 from the small blind and was pleased as punch when the big blind set him all-in for his 51,100 stack. Marchese quickly called with against the big blind's and easily won after a board offered, like a crap Haunted House ride, no scares at all.
First in from the cutoff seat, Chance Kornuth opened to 6,200, and action folded around to the big blind. JP Kelly was in that seat, and he three-bet to 18,500 straight. When it came back to Kornuth, he reraised to 46,800, Kelly shoved for 186,500, and Kornuth double-checked his hole cards and quickly made the call.
Showdown
Kornuth:
Kelly:
Let's flip a coin for more than 150 big blinds, shall we?
The flop was barren for the Team PokerStars Pro, coming out , and the turn didn't help him either. The river , though, was quite the game changer. Kelly spikes his pair to lock up the pot, snagging more than half of Kornuth's chips in the process.
That pot would have put Kornuth awfully close to the half-million chip mark, but the king on the river means he'll cut out the losses and drop to about 160,000.
Kelly, on the other hand, has skyrocketed up the scoresheet to a very healthy 375,000 now.
We only caught the bit at the end where Benny Spindler turned his cards over to scoop the pot ("How many chips have you got there?" said Chino Rheem at the next table, "I want you to come over to my table with all those chips"), so once again thank you to our German media friends who taped the entire thing and played it back for us. Efficiency, eh?
There was a raise to 4,300 preflop which Spindler called on the button.
Flop:
The original raiser bet out 8,000; Spindler flat-called.
Turn:
This time the raiser checked. Spindler bet 14,200, and the preflop raiser called.
River:
The original raiser checked again, and this time Spindler bet 59,200 (you can really zoom in on our German friend's camera). Original Raiser called, but mucked to Spindler's for the flopped nut flush.
Spindler seems to be our new chip leader after that, on 475,000.