Further misery for Ben Vinson as David Rowan raised the hijack and Vinson re-popped him from the small blind -- only for Rowan to push, covering Vinson. After a few moments' thought, Vinson folded.
There was just now a brief pause while the TDs conducted a head count. Results of that head count concluded that we have 65 runners remaining at this time, and as soon as we have lost one more player we will be going hand-for-hand to the bubble.
David Docherty raised to 2,200, only for the highly excitable Ganesh Bathmanathan on the button to enquire, "How much you got behind, boss?" The answer was around 15,000. "I'm all in."
Back to Docherty, who tanked up. There followed a probably rather off-putting monologue from Bathmanathan.
"You wanna call me? You seen what hands I've had. You wanna stay in, make the money at least, you been here from yesterday. I'll show if you fold."
Docherty remained in his tank for a long time, before eventually folding. Bathmanathan showed him . "I'm not here to mess you about, man," Bathmanathan assured. "I want you to make the money, get your little something, go about your business." Docherty said not a word.
Raul Paez raised from the button and Ian Frazer defended in the big blind. On the flop, Frazer check-raised and all the chips flew in, Frazer in need of assistance with versus .
The turn may have been a blank, but the river wasn't, sending Paez into a furied frenzy as he stamped his feet and muttered profanities under his breath.
The bottom line is, though, that Paez is out, and his sniper is up to the half century mark.
Scott Shelley was held by the short and curlies on his departure, his push with running head first into the worst possible hand, , and failing to show even a glimmer of improvement on an uneventful board.
Further mis-timed moves from Ben Vinson resulted in a further loss of chips, as he raised to 2,000 from the cutoff and was committed to call the push from tiny stack and poker musical composer Tim Molyneux on the button.
Vinson:
Molyneux:
Board: an entirely unequivocal to double up Molyneux to 7,500.