, and he was in good shape to survive against Tome Moreira and his
. He would pair his eight on the turn as the board rolled out
. Eights are good, and Visser doubles up to just about 300,000.A few hands later, Visser open-shoved for 278,000 from late position. In the blinds, Ryan Franklin had just 132,000 left, and they all went into the pot. Visser held
, and Franklin was all in but ahead with
.The flop brought a backdoor flush draw for Visser, coming
. The
that hit the turn was not one of those backdoor cards, though. It left Visser drawing dead, and he mucked his cards before the river fell the
. That moved Franklin back into contention with close to 280,000.For Visser, it's down and up and back down again. He's back to 156,000 as the break approaches.


a few hands after doubling Ainsworth, he open-shoved for his last 30,000 from late position. In the blinds, Claudio Coelho made the call with
. The
on the turn left Guiglini drawing dead to his two-outer, and the
on the river was indeed not an eight.
and then having to lay it down to reraises all in from Jan Skampa and the like, so he must have been delighted when he looked down and found
. He raised under the gun to 38,000, and Antonio Matias and Michel Abecassis in the blinds both made the call.
and Matias bet out 60,000. Abecassis flat-called, and the action moved over to Ainsworth, who announced all in for 278,000. Back to Matias - and he called. Now to Abecassis - and he re-shoved for 428,000 total. And Matias called that too.
, giving the apparently golden Matias the straight as well