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 ...
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.
Back to under 60k, Tom Dwan got some more action from Sorel Mizzi - to the tune of a full double up. On a heads up flop, Durrrr found himself with a flopped house: which Mizzi looked up with . The turn and river were unlikely to help, and didn't, and shaking his head counted out the chips to hand them over.
Dan Shak is busto -- all we saw was the board reading and Tony Bloom raking in the pot, but whatever happened there, the result is the same -- out he goes.
Noah Boeken has built back a few chips - currently he's on 52k - and the last couple came from Daniel Hindin. I remember Hindin from yesterday, when he was still an unknown quantity, talking very loudly in American with another gent at his table after doubling through with KKxx vs AAxx which he admitted was pretty lucky. It seems that he's ruffled the usually easygoing Boeken, presumably with his table talk - just now when Boeken took down a medium sized pot against him, he said something along the lines of "Nice hand... 6-8-9-T, you call a raise... Where are you from?"
"None of your business," replied Boeken, "You're not from here, that's for sure. You talk too much anyway."
"Finland? Sweden? Norway?"
"Norway," finally replied Boeken, which seemed to satisfy his behoodied questioner.
Guess Hindin hasn't seen the TV ads in which Boeken exhorts us to find the poker stars in us.
A curious hand which came to nothing, but not until after a whole load of chips had changed hands.
Tony Bloom raised and chip leader Jani Vilmunen called. Over to Ashton Griffin in the small blind, who reraised pot. Bloom called, Vilmunen decided not to risk his chip leader status and folded, and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Without any fuss, Griffin bet out pot, an expression of complete innocence on his face. Bloom dwelled for some minutes, but ultimately opted for the fold.