It was a small pot for Mike Watson but they all count.
He was in the big blind and defended a mid position raise from Ioakim Papadopoulos. The flop fell and Watsom check-called a 3,800 c-bet. The turn and river were checked down and Papadopoulos opened . Watson tabled and dragged in the pot.
Moments later we saw Matt Waxman get up from his table and leave the room. The man himself explains:
We saw the exit hand, Risk's was up against the of Markus Tremel. The flop was rather final and the turn locked up the hand for Tremel. The meaningless was the river card and Risk exited the tournament area.
Mathew Frankland opened t 1,600 from early position and his only opponent was Tayfun Rodoplu seated in the big blind. Rodoplu called, leaving himself just 6,200 chips behind.
The flop came down and Rodoplu open-shoved, Frankland called and the cards were revealed.
Frankland:
Rodoplu:
Rodoplu held the advantage and that advantage held as the turn and river were the and respectively. Frankland drops to 16,000.
Jason Wheeler has been eliminated from the tournament. We didn't catch the elimination hand, but Wheeler did explain what happened on Facebook:
"busto from EPT Prague Main Event...was dealt 3 hands in the first level. which i flatted a raise then folded to reship from short stack who had ...then which i ran into of short stack...then < against same guy who had ....gonna laxx for a couple hours then jump in the 2k."
Likewise, Mike "Timex" McDonald explained his demise on social media: