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It took a lot for Gary Retallick to go behind one. After being down to 150 on the second hand of the match, he fought his way back to 3,000 in chips.
He then got it all in with against looking to take the lead. He got the card he was looking for a spiking the flop.
After the turn blanked, Woods would be re-drawing to just the case .
He shipped the one outter on the river, much to the delight of the crowd who roared in appreciation.
Gary Retallick trails 1-0 and the winner will meet David Saab in the third round.
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Brian Roberts may have done it easy against Tino Lechich in the second round, but his third round match against Harold Olson proved a fair bit more of a challenge.
Roberts had to overcome going behind 1-0, to take the match 2-1.
His winning hand saw all the money go in on a flop of with Olson holding for two pair against Roberts' flush draw.
The hit the turn putting Roberts in front, and the bricked the river, making Roberts the first man to cash from today's flight, and sending him into the quarter-finals tomorrow.
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Over an hour ago Florian Langmann locked things up against Ron Beggs 1-1. They're still fighting out in the decisive rubber of their match.
Beggs is ahead about 6,500 to 3,500 at the moment.
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We got three games in progress at the moment.
Darren Woods leads Gary Retallick 1-0. They are pretty even in the second rubber.
Florian Langmann and Ron Beggs are still going at 1-1. Langmann now has a pretty imposing chip lead. There should not be long left in that game.
Dani Stern and Andrew Seidman is on as well. Seidman told us, it's 1-0 over there. He also told us that "Dani called me down with Queen high. In game points i'm ahead 1-0, but in life points, i'm down like 10,000".
We'll leave it to BalugaWhale to sign us off on that note.
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Two long running matches have just ended.
Andrew Seidman ended Dani Stern's run with a 2-0 victory after a bit of fortune went his way in the second rubber.
Seidman is in the money and will return tomorrow with Brian Roberts.
Florian Langmann finally claimed the scalp of Ron Beggs in a drawn out clash. Langmann won 2-1 and now is up against Kyle McMurphy in the third round. The winner of that advances to tomorrow.
Gary Retallick and Darren Woods are still playing. Woods leads the match 1-0 and the winner meets David Saab in the third round tonight.