Caught at the very end, a pot which looked moderate suddenly got a bit bigger as Sandra Naujoks bet out 27k on the river on a board of . Sole opponent Howard Lederer considered for quite some time, counted out the 27k, then whacked another 40k on top and pushed out the stacks.
Back to Naujoks, who went into the tank for a good few minutes, the only movement the slow riffle of her chips. The whole table waited on this decision, which eventually came, and was Fold.
Joe Beevers has at present about 23k, down from what was already a fairly small stack. It seems he's been very tight, though, as I saw him make two preflop raises in the last 10 minutes, and both of them, despite his stack size, got through the whole table. "Such respect!" said Williamson III
"I haven't played a hand today," reinforces Beevers.
"That's why everyone folded."
The second time he made a raise, Tony Bloom had limped in mid position, but even with his chunky stack he wasn't up for taking on Beevers' 20k. He folded, smiling, and Beevers flipped ...
We strolled over to Table 3 over in the corner to see a board reading board out, and Tom Dwan had checked. To his left, Andrey Zaichenko bet around 25,000 -- and back around to him, Dwan check-raised pot, easily covering Zaichenko.
Mr. Zaichenko closed his eyes and dwelled for a little while, while Shaun Deeb and Dan Hindin, who had given up on his chair and was now perched on the marble counter-type arrangement behind him, discussed the woeful lack of cushions as per Vegas in the Empire. Zaichenko folded. Hindin and Deeb were discussing swapping seats, which we do not believe is allowed.
Zaichenko: 105,000
Dwan: 325,000, which just sneaks the chip lead from Jani Vilmunen
A small pot for Theo Jorgensen has put him up to 90,000.
He bet 20,000 on the river of a board, forcing Roberto Romanello into the tank. When he resurfaced, he folded, and the pot was Jorgensen's. Romanello dips to 110,000.
Shaun Deeb, after a great start to this tournament yesterday, and a pretty good middle section, found himself at the closing stages of this blind level in pretty dire trouble and with his tournament life on the line, all in against Durrrr on a flop with (he'd raised to 8k utg, button Dwan had called) vs. Dwan's flopped set: .
The which followed got him straight out of jail, as it were, and he's still alive to enjoy his 20 minute break, which is starting now.