They’re super high rollers, but the crowd is low rolling it right now, facing its biggest test when called upon to give Mike Watson, out in seventh place, a “big” round of applause, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
Scott Seiver made a great lay down just now against Timothy Adams.
Both had similar sized stacks when Seiver opened the button with ace-seven. Adams was in the small blind and shoved for 1.1 million with ace-eight. Seiver tank-folded.
Timothy Adams raised from the cutoff to 125,000 and the action was folded to Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier who moved all in from the big blind. Adams called, risking his stack worth 1,425,000.
Jason Mercier's agression just now was enough to force Timothy Adams off a hand.
The latter opened to 125,000 from the cut-off and Mercier called from the small blind en route to a flop. The Team PokerStars Pro led for 130,000 and Adams called to face a 345,000 bet on the turn.
It was too much for him to call and Mercier picked up the poy with .
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier raised under the gun plus one and Max Altergott moved all in over the top with . The action was folded back to Mercier who had and eventually he decided to fold.
So far we've seen plenty of all-in shoves but no callers just yet. The stacks are getting quite shallow but everyone is still looking to jump up on the payout ladder.
On the hand right after Scott Seiver was knocked out it was Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier who moved all in from the small blind. Max Altergott, who had 1,560,000 chips left, snap-called.