Joel Dodds opened with a raise to 550 from early position before a player popped him to 1,525 from middle position. The table folded around and Dodds made the call.
They saw a heads-up flop of and Dodds calmly checked over to his opponent who tossed out 1,000. Dodds returned serve with a check-raise to 2,500 and his opponent made the call.
On the turn card, Dodds made it 3,500 to play and his opponent was pained by his decision as the rest of the table scurried away to enjoy their break. The player sat in the tank for a long time and didn't want to give up his hand.
"Will you show if I fold?" he posed but Dodds remained motionless.
After several minutes the player decided to go for glory and slammed all of his stack into the middle. Dodds insta-called and flipped over for a set as his opponent was left calling for a nine with his to stay alive.
It wasn't to be, as the bricked the river and Dodds sends one to the rail to head to the break with 48,500 chips.
Said Michael Marcos, after a recent double-up through John Myung.
All of the money found the middle before the flop; Marcos' with and Myung's with pocket sevens. The ensuing board filled out giving Marcos a pair of queens to best Myung's sevens and double him up to 8,000 in chips.
Oliver Gill has had a busy few minutes. First Gill recalled to us a hand where he flopped bottom set on a rainbow board. Gill fired 625 and was check-raised to 1,900 by the big blind. Gill called, and then flat called bets on the turn (2,400) and river (2,800). Gill's set was good and he took down the pot.
While we were at the table, Gill was in the thick of it again, firing bets on the turn and river on a board of against John Dalessandri who called him down. Gill flipped over for top pair which was the best hand as Dalessandri mucked.
Mark Vos has just copped a five-minute penalty for using his mobile phone at the table.
Vos defended by saying that he merely pulled his phone out of his pocket and didn't actually answer it, but the rule is rather black and white and Vos copped the penalty.
Rayan Nathan has taken control of his table moving over the 70,000 chip mark.
We had to go back and double check the count on him, and as we were doing so he was dragging a pot against Michael Marvanek on the flop.
We also caught in action against Jai Kemp recently. Nathan opened to 525 from middle position and Kemp made the call from the button.
The flop came with Nathan firing out a bet of 1,075. Kemp flat called again. The turn was the and this time Nathan fired 2,000 and Kemp called.
Kemp then tank called a 2,500 chip bet from Nathan on the river . Nathan rolled over for two pair and Kemp shook his head and mucked.
Kemp has about 20,000. A chipped up Tony Bloom has also been moved to the table recently and it should provide some good sparks if Nathan and Bloom get into big hand.
Clonie Gowen has had a rough day but just doubled up to get herself back into the black for the day.
With the board showing Gowen moved all in from the small blind for her last 7,300 with her opponent making the call from early position holding for top pair. However Gowen had that beat with her rivering a straight. She's back to 21,000 chips.
Manny Rodrigues has just pulled off a nice little bluff to get himself up to 30,000 in chips.
Catching the action on the turn on a board of Rodrigues checked over to his opponent who fired 1,500. Rodrigues made the call and the repeated on the river.
Rodrigues decided to represent and led out for 2,500. His opponent thought for a moment and open-mucked his pocket sevens as Rodrigues flashed for a busted flush draw.
Mikkel Madsen has just been eliminated from the tournament by new big stack Jonathan Karamalikis.
On a board showing , an unknown opponent fired a 1,600 bet that was called by Karamalikis before Madsen moved all in. The original bettor called and so did Karamalikis. What happened next was a little confusing.
Karamalikis thought that both of his opponents were all in, not realizing that the unidentified opponent still had about 2,500 in chips in front of him, so he tabled his cards -- . A floorperson was then called to the table to sort out the issue and he ruled that Karamalikis' hand would remain live.
After that issue seemed sorted, the unknown player turned his cards over as well, showing a pocket pair of aces, but the floorstaff quickly told him to turn them back over.
The fell on the turn and Karamalikis fired a 1,200 bet, prompting the third party to send his aces into the muck.
At the showdown, Madsen revealed for flush and gutshot straight draws, but the river blanked -- -- and Karamalikis' set of sixes held up to win the pot and send Madsen to the rail.
The player under the gun made a bet of 1,000. Rayan Nathan from the small blind raised it up to 2,500. The big blind got out of the way before the player under the gun made it 5,000 more to go. Nathan casually tossed in about nine yellow chips (45,000) to put the under the gun player all in.
That's when Nathan's opponent went into the tank for a few minutes before finally mucking his cards face up, showing for a flopped two pair.