; after a board of
, it didn't matter. Hairabedian's straight gave him the double-up to 520,000.
; after a board of
, it didn't matter. Hairabedian's straight gave him the double-up to 520,000.
, Christopher Rossiter re-shoved with
, and the
board did absolutely nothing to improve his hand. He left very quickly without a word.
on his big blind with a a sigh.
-- and although Diaz must have been delighted to pick up
, the deck was not going to be kind and he is busted in 29th place.
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000
, against Rossiter's
. With a ten-high flop, we were primed to finally eliminate one of these tenacious short stacks, but Rossiter turned a jack to take a lead he never relinquished. With a brick on the river, Rossiter doubled to 430,000 and left the media "moat" -- an area inside the main rail but outside the tournament area -- muttering under our breaths. No offense intended to Mr. Rossiter.
and Rossiter turn over
, claiming that he folded pocket jacks. That all changed when the board ran out
to make an eight-high straight for Mikkelsen. He's back to more than 1.1 million in chips and Rossiter is the new short stack with about 215,000.
board before pushing all in. Perhaps Gilbert Diaz thought the four on the turn had improved his hand, somehow failing to notice the two kings on there, as he called with
and was way behind Tulchinskiy's
. The river was the
which changed nothing, and Tulchinskiy enjoyed his second double up of the day.
had absolutely zero hope against Patrick Wymann's
on the
board. A full double up for Wymann and with that, a very unhappy looking Castellucio is down to 250,000.
and grimaced when he saw Hairabedian's
. A queen on the flop pretty much sealed this one for Hairabedian, doubling him up to 450,000.
; he was up against De Korver's
, a hand that was drawing dead by the turn after Tulchinkiy flopped a third ace and paired the board on the turn.