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.
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.
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.
He had called Ashley Hames' push, and things were looking very good for him.
Baier:
Hames:
Board:
"You are the devil," commented a tablemate.
"Get in, my son," replied a very cheerful Hames.
The next hand, it folded around to Baier on the button, who called all in for his last 1,100. The small blind limped in, the big blind checked, and they saw a flop. The small blind bet out, the big blind folded, and they were on their backs.