After entertaining the top floor tier of railers for the last couple of hours, Savan Trivedi is out after he called all in with against Jean-Robert Bellande's for his last 20,000. The board bricked out coming and the former Survivor star was shocked saying, "My mouth is still open. He called all in with A-2."
Nevertheless, Bellande is now one of the big stacks on the table with Remy Biechel and Xavier Laszcz. They have 41,000, 56,000, and 47,000 respectively.
I walked to the table to see a mound of chips being slid Jesper Hougaard's way from his neighbor, Huseyin Yilmaz. Yilmaz's cards had already been mucked, but Hougaard's were still sitting face-up in front of him.
The final board read .
Hougaard is up to 38,000 whereas Yilmaz fell back down to 7,000.
Andy Black just doubled up again, this time courtesy of his most talkative tablemate, Phil Laak. Black cracked Laak's pocket kings with when an ace arrived on the board, increasing his stack to 15,000. Laak was still healthy at 22,000.
Another player has felt the wrath of Savan Trivedi, having limp-reraised the latter's initial 2,000 raise to 4,500. Unperturbed, the current chip leader set his opponent all in with and was duly called by the shorter stack's . But the board ran out which drew an "Oh...my...God," from Jean-Robert Bellande, who had just been moved to this table. Trivedi rebuilt his stack to back over 20,000, having lost several large pots on his table to the Frenchmen Xavier Laszcz and Remy Biechel.
John Tabatabai raises to 1,200 from the cut off and receives a call from Adam Junglen before a player sitting in the big blind moves all in for 5,600. The decision's back on Tabatabai who looks at both of his opponent's before moving all in as well. Junglen quickly folds leaving it heads up.
Tabatabai tables and he dominated by the big blind's .
The board runs blank send the pot away from Tabatabai and leaving him with 12,000 now.
We picked the action up on the flop, with John Tabatabai putting out an unusual minimum bet of 300. Deeb bumped it up to 1,725 and Tabatabai called. The turn was the and Tabatabai again tossed out 300. Deeb, clearly not messing around, raised to 4,200 and after a moment of thought, Tabatabai announced all in.
Deeb called instantaneously and turned over for the nut straight while Tabatabai showed for two pair. The river was the and Deeb doubled to 27,000 in chips while last year's WSOP-E Main Event runner-up was left with 15,600.
After a preflop raising war that set Andy Black and Kevin O'Leary all in against Brian Patton (who had both men covered), the cards were turned on their backs:
Black
O'Leary
Patton:
The board ran out and Black's kings held, tripling him up to 14,000. O'Leary hit the rail, while Patton survived with 11,200 of his chips intact.
This might be turning into the 'Savan Trivedi Show' upstairs but every pot he plays seems to have some sort of significance. Aurelien Guiglini has been knocked down to just 5,000. He had flopped the nuts with on the board but somehow Trivedi's had got there in the hand to increase his own standing.
All Guiglini could do was look out into the crowd to a friend railing him, shrug his shoulders and let out a laugh to hide his frustration.
We didn't catch the series of raises and reraises that got them there, but arrived when Phil Laak opened up the and found himself up against his all in opponent's . The flop was , the A-K still leading, but Laak picked up an open-ended straight draw. The turn was a blank, the , but the arrived on the river, eliminating Laak's bewildered opponent.
"Taking the suited J-9 up against A-K of diamonds, and getting there on the river... that's soooo satisfying" said Laak as he stacked his 21,000 in chips.