The trouble with short stacks is that even if you double up, you're still short, as was the case for recent double-upper Frank Callaghan. As soon as I'd reported his latest moment of elation, I returned to see his seat empty: missing, assumed out.
Disaster for Rob-Jarrett Smith who's just run into on a board. I'm not sure when the money went in, but either way it's a cooler, and judging by Jarrett-Smith's rather startled expression, it's likely academic.
What I can tell you, however, is that (1) Jarrett-Smith didn't expect to lose the hand after smacking the flop so hard, and (2) won't be feeding the ducks in the park any time soon.
Jarrett-Smith down, but not out. He currently has 15,000.
Finn Janne Nevalainen has just won the biggest pot of the tournament knocking out Michael Tureniec in the process.
Tureniec had fired out 3,600 on a which Nevalainen called.
Tureniec then checked the turn and Nevalainen overbet the turn, putting about 25,000 into a 20,000 or so pot. Tureniec called and the river was the .
The Swede checked the river and Nevalainen thought for a momemnt moving all-in for around 100,000 just covering his opponent.
At this point the glasses came off Tureniec's face and he slowly and methodically counted out each stack of chips of the 86,000 or he had remaining. A growing crowd around the table only added to the pressure before finally, after five minutes of thought he quietly said, "Call."
Nevalainen turned over for the second nuts and a pale Tureniec nodded and flashed his cards into the muck, leaving the table. Nevalainen later said he'd seen .
No doubt Tureniec will be very disappointed, and doubly so because he'll be missing out on dinner.
Ciaran Taggart raised to 4,100 from middle position, Toby Lewis three-bet to 12,000, Taggart shoved, and Lewis called.
Taggart =
Lewis =
Judging by the hole cards, it would appear as though there's more history between the two than the Oxbirdge libraries, but either way, Lewis' pair held, dodging a king, and then a gutshot draw, on an board.
Benjamin Dobson must have had his water wings on when he moved all in with . With Eoin Wood making the call with , Dobson was in danger of drowning without a trace, but after a harmless board, a arrived on the river to save the day and double him up.
Wood, meanwhile, looked considerably disgruntled, but he's still in, albeit with a depleted stack of 45,000.
"I had pocket tens at the time, so with just 14,000 it was obviously going in. When I saw Jen [Mason] messing with her chips, I thought, 'Here we go'. She had jacks and I didn't improve."
Jarrett-Smith also shed some light on the house-over-house encounter that crippled him. "I knew he had K-Q, I just knew it. Alan Trueick raised preflop and we both called. When I hit the set on the flop, I thought it was a perfect board to check-raise, but they both checked behind. I then check-called the turn, hoping Alan would come along for the ride, but he didn't. Then, on the river, I check-called again, and I even said, 'I know this is going to look really nitty but I'm sure you have K-Q.'"