John Eames has been quietly plugging along with a medium-low stack today. He was just seen contemplating a 5,000 bet on the river on a board of . He had checked his option and was considering his opponent's bet into the small pot. He eventually decided to call with ace high, . His opponent mucked and Eames took the pot.
Atanas Gueorguiev raised to 3,000, only for overnight enormo-stack Maurice Harmon to make it 9,000. Gueorguiev reraised all in, Harmon called, and they were on their backs.
Harmon:
Gueorguiev:
Board:
Gueorguiev doubled up to around 60,000, and the loss barely made a dent in Harmon's stack -- he's still on around 125,000.
On a river which drew winces from the table, Barry Keenan's were outdrawn by Graham Masters' . All in preflop, Keenan faded four rags before the put an end to his Irish Open tournament life.