If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around...
After a double up on the first hand, we took our eyes off of Andy Black for just a few seconds. When we turned our heads back around, he was nowhere to be seen. His chips are missing, and his beard is nowhere in sight either. Asking around the room, it seems that nobody saw the hand that sealed his fate. It was an unusually covert exit for Mr. Black.
Garcia Cayetano limped into the pot under the gun, and Olaf de Zeeuw followed suit in middle position. Both blinds came along as well, and it was four-handed to the flop.
It brought . After a few bets and raises, Cayetano ended up all in for 65,600 against de Zeeuw. The at-risk player was ahead with , but he would need to fade the myriad outs of de Zeeuw's .
The turn blanked off for him, the , and the that hit the river did nothing to improve de Zeeuw either. With his nines holding, Cayetano has picked up a big double to about 145,000. De Zeeuw has slipped down to 51,000.
Happiest Man In The Room right now is very definitely Javier Garcia - he's just tripled up to almost 200,000.
Garcia was holding pocket queens with Ryan Franklin also all in with pocket kings; Daniel Drescher covered them both with pocket nines. A queen on the flop, and Franklin is down to 40,000 while former big stack Drescher has just 13,000 to his name.
A player in middle position opened the pot with a small raise to 7,000, and Rolf Slotboom made the call from the cutoff seat. When action came around to the big blind, Jan Heitmann announced a re-raise to 25,000 straight. That was enough to fold the initial raiser, but Slotboom wasn't going anywhere. In his methodical fashion, "Robocop" counted out a re-raise and made it 69,000 total. Heitmann asked how much Slotboom had behind (66,200), and he moved all in over the top.
Slotboom was hating life. He seemed to know that he was beaten, but he had more than half of his chips in the pot already. He reluctantly called as he asked the dealer to give him another jack.
Showdown
Slotboom:
Heitmann:
The dealer would fail to oblige Slotboom as he ran out a board of . Unable to catch up to the pocket aces, Slotboom shook hands with his table and headed out. Heitmann, on the other hand, is up dangerously close to 300,000.
Crippled after that earlier three-way monster pot, Daniel Drescher finally succumbed when he found himself all in with against Joao Barbosa's . A ten on the flop, and Drescher was done.
...All we saw was that de Zeeuw was holding and there was a jack somewhere on the board. Whatever happened, de Zeeuw looks very relieved and is up to 140,000.
. After a few bets and raises, Cayetano ended up all in for 65,600 against de Zeeuw. The at-risk player was ahead with 
, but he would need to fade the myriad outs of de Zeeuw's 
.
, and the 
that hit the river did nothing to improve de Zeeuw either. With his nines holding, Cayetano has picked up a big double to about 145,000. De Zeeuw has slipped down to 51,000.
. Unable to catch up to the pocket aces, Slotboom shook hands with his table and headed out. Heitmann, on the other hand, is up dangerously close to 300,000.
to put him on a still rather shaky 70,000.
against Joao Barbosa's 
. A ten on the flop, and Drescher was done.
