Jason Mercier: 60,000
Daniel Negreanu: 53,000
Annette Obrestad: back up to 71,000 after dropping a little
Going Down
Ted Lawson: drops to a still commanding 75,000
Roland de Wolfe: 13,500
Marcel Baran: 9,000
that drew a bet of 625 from the big blind. Tony, with about 13,000 behind, fired out a raise to 2,000 that won him the pot after about a minute. That pot increased his stack to 15,000.
.
on an innocuous looking
flop, but Babic was holding
for the flush draw which came in on the
turn. The river was the
for overkill.
flop and the G-meister moved in with
, no spades. Unfortunately for him, Jaka had the nut flush and that was the end of it.
which appeared to have made a backdoor flush on a queen-high board.
, and with two checks to him Moneymaker bet 2,200. Paulsen alone called. The turn:
. Again, Paulsen check-called, this time for 4,400. The river was the
. A final check from the preflop raiser, and Moneymaker pushed his whole stack over the line (around 6,300). This time, Paulsen took his time counting out the call, while Moneymaker produced -- as if from nowhere -- a big stack of 'Team Pokerstars Pro stickers' and laid them on top of his hand.
, which it turned out had missed a big draw against Paulsen's, now victorious,
.