Pierre-Elie De Oliveira is the latest casualty of the early evening here on Day Three, losing with what started out as a dominating hand: vs. the of [Removed:40]. The dealer shout when a player is all in and called which usually draws viewers over to the correct table was lacking in this instance, so it's unclear when the money went in (Oliveira being much the shorter stack) but his reaction was muted and not overly surprised which suggests he'd moved in on a flop which Vitagliano had hit. However, Vitagliano is the aggressor of the hour and has been picking up the hands (and the chips) so it's possible he took a shot at a short stack preflop.
[Removed:40] opened for 28,000 on the button and Balazs Botond called in the small blind before Daniel Negreanu reraised to 108,000 from the big blind. Back to Vitagliano, who now four-bet to 225,000.
Both his opponents folded - and Vitagliano showed them .
Sergey Rybachenko was eliminated after Balazs Botond set him all-in from the button. Rybachenko was very short and turned over and Botond had . The board was
Tomer Berda was eliminated by Charles Combes. Berda all-in pre flop with and Combes had . The board was
[Removed:40] has knocked out Jurgen Reicht and therefore more than doubled up in a threeway all-in preflop confrontation which sends him suddenly over the million chip mark. A standard cutoff raise started an incredible chain of shoving, first from button Reicht, then small blind Vitagliano, then the biggest stack, big blind Balazs Botond!
"I am folding Aces," said the cutoff.
Reicht:
Vitagliano:
Botond:
The board ran out sending Vitagliano into a frenzy of celebration (the word 'baby' was involved) and Reicht to the rail.
Just as Michael Eiler, Team Pokerstars Pro Martin Hruby and Antonio Buonanno start to snap at the heels of our Chip Leader - he presses the overdrive button and zooms a lot further ahead.
Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Negreanu makes it 26,000 from the hijack and the action folds around to the young Dutchman in the Small Blind - Riekus Hein Wijermars. Wijemars three-bets to 67,000 and after a brief pause Negreanu makes it 120,000. Wijermars immediately announces that he is all-in and Negreanu doesn't like it. He asks the dealer to separate Wijermars 120,000 from the rest of his stack then after a quick count makes the call.
Wijermars:
Negreanu:
Board:
We estimate that Wijermars had 510,000 before his elimination.