We caught up with the action on a and Dario Minieri bet 18,700. Ana Laura Marquez Esteban called and when the hit the river, Minieri shoved for about 40,000. A quick call from Esteban revealed , besting Minieri's .
With the win, Ana Laura Marquez Esteban is up to about 272,000.
Charlie Wiper was down around his starting stack when he open-shoved all in for 32,700. An opponent called with , and Wiper's was flipping for double or nothing. "We're doing this!" he yelled as he stood from his chair.
The board ran out , and that holds Wiper's pair. He's doubled right up to 70,000 with those sixes.
From under the gun, Pieter de Korver raised to 7,200. Brandon Adams reraised to 21,000 from the hijack and de Korver called. The flop came down and de Korver checked. Adams fired 24,000 and de Korver raised to 85,000. Adams folded and de Korver looked at though he wanted to show his hand, but didn't He then mentioned after that he had the hand that won him the 2009 EPT Grand Final. If that's the case, he had the .
De Korver is up to 322,000 and Adams dropped to 50,000.
We picked up the action on the turn as the board showed . Daniel Alaei was heads up, and he check-called a bet of 19,200 from his opponent.
That brought them to the river, and Alaei's opponent fired 44,000 at the pot. That sent Daniel deep into the think tank for a few long minutes as he stared down the man across the table. Alaei eventually double-tapped his iPod and paused the music he had been listening to, cutting down his chips and eying up the potential damage to his stack. After another few minutes, he surrendered, dropping to about 160,000.
On a board reading and about 40,000 chips in the pot, Chino Rheem bet 28,000 from the small blind and was called by his opponent, who happened to be the big stack at the table, from the hijack position.
When the hit the river, Rheem counted out a bunch of chips and slid in a bet of 72,500, leaving himself approximately 80,000 behind. The hijack didn't take long to call and Rheem knocked the table and explained, "I missed a flush." The hijack showed and just like that, more than half of Rheem's stack disappeared.
Dmitriy Stelmak raised from early-middle position to 7,000 and Sandra Naujoks reraised all in from the small blind for 29,900. Stelmak made the call holding the . Naujoks held the .
A clean board of ran out for Naujoks and she doubled back to over 60,000.
John Spadavecchia was all in with against the of Seat 1 in a pot worth right around 175,000. Spectators gathered around the table to watch the race as the dealer put out a flop. Spadavecchia picked up a straight but was still looking to improve. The on the turn was no help, but Spadavecchia slapped the table in celebration when the peeled off on the river. Seat 1 was clearly dejected and Spadavecchia was all smiles stacking his newly won chips.