by the time we got there and Alexander Strauss had bet out 37,500 from the small blind position. Jesus Ramos Vazquez on the button made it 75,000 to go, and then relaxed back into his massage, nodding gently to whatever appropriate tunes were on his ipod.Strauss spent a long time looking tortured and eventually re-popped to 137,500. He was rewarded by a speedy fold from Vazquez.
Vazquez - 210,000
Strauss - 480,000
but Ketul Nathwani found
, Jude Ainsworth started counting out stacks of red 1,000-denomination chips by way of a bet.
for a pair of fives
for a flush draw
to Lennart Holz. Holz fired 23,500 and Gross made the call.
to the board and both players checked before seeing the
hit the river. Gross checked again and Holz went into the tank. Eventually, he fired a bet of 75,000. Gross mucked his hand and Holz was able to increase to 350,000 chips.



- Dombrowski checked again, and Behling bet 125,000, leaving himself 105,000 behind. Dombrowski went even deeper into the tank. A regular Internet player, Chris is used to making decisions in less than 30 seconds while playing 15 tables, but something about live play changes the thinking process for many online players. After over three minutes, someone at the table called the clock. Dombrowski let it tick down to six seconds before giving up his cards. He was down to 165,00 after the hand.
and got a call from Marko Neumann holding
. You'd think we'd see a winner and a loser with those hands, right?