After a few walks to circle the button around the table, Erik Seidel found himself pushing all in over a raise from Joseph Haddad. Haddad made the call and tabled . Seidel held .
The flop came . The turn and river came the and the to make Seidel a full house and double him up.
Though we've had two eliminations since returning from the dinner break, things have certainly slowed down here in the Brasilia room. Table 6 hasn't seen a flop in the last twenty minutes.
Erik Seidel just informed the tournament staff that there was a mark or dent in one of the cards that was dealt to him. The dealer mucked Seidel's hand, but Seidel remembered which card it was. After all of the players folded, Seidel let the tournament director know that the ace of spades was the card that was marked. The tournament director sifted through the deck to find that the once proclaimed 'most beautiful card in the deck' was now the ugliest card in the deck and a new set of 52 will be implemented.
Mikhail Ustinov raised pot from early position and then Daniel Klein asked him how much he had behind. Ustinov said he had just 7,000 behind and then Klein moved him all in. Ustinov called.
Ustinov showed and Klein showed .
The board ran out and Klein's deuces held up to take the pot and eliminate Ustinov from the event. There was no low.
All the money went in preflop between Michael Fetter, Brent Carter, and Laurent Lefrancq.
Fetter held J-Q-K-K, Carter had Jad A-J-J-6, and Laurent had A-2-3-Q.
The flop fell , flopping the nuts for Fetter with Carter drawing dead and Laurent looking for the case ace or the case queen. Fetter nabbed the whole thing and is up to 220,000 afterwards.