Jacques Zaicik, all in for just 60,000 or so, didn't look terribly comfortable as the cards were turned over, even though his were well ahead of Tommie Janssen's . Nevertheless the board came down an unintimidating and he doubled to 125,000.
Janssen, who'd made a good recovery from his earlier hit, dropped back down to 190,000.
Toni Judet picked up in the small blind, called a button raise (12k) and then found Josef Klinger moving in from the big blind. The 121,500 bet scared off the button but Judet was unwilling to relinquish his hand. He called and found himself in a race vs. Klinger's . The board brought paint galore, and an Ace, knocking Klinger out and bringing Judet back to 680,000.
Having dropped in the first level to a shoving stack (and a below-average one at that) Daniel Biro found a fair spot to move all in from the small blind. He only had to get through Balazs Csermely in the big blind, but there was no escape for his as Csermely called with and the board failed to complete the straight tantalisingly suggested by the flop. Biro hit the table once, which might have been a sign of frustration or a very vehement table-tap for his opponent.
Remember earlier we told you of Sergii Baranov's lucky escape when his King-Five combo ran into the pocket aces of Kirill Zapletin, well he has just exacted some revenge.
We didn't see the betting action but Zapletin doubled up with against Baranov's on a board of
We told you earlier how Dominique Papesch had doubled up through Team Pokerstars Pro Toni Judet, well he has just done it again. Papesch shoved in early position for ~80,000 and Judet just called despite having four opponents to act behind him. It was irrelevant as they all folded. Hands on your backs gentlemen.
Judet:
Papesch:
Papesch had a lot of room to breath when he hit trips on the flop .
Luke Schwartz got his last in with and found himself up against Andrey Gulyy's . The board came down an unhelpful , and with a sigh (note - no tables turned over, stacks knocked down, shouting, or anything like that), Schwartz headed for the payout desk.
We only caught the action on the river - but what a river it was.
The board read when we got there and Riekus Wijermars had bet out what looked like 67,000 from the small blind position. Across the table Jeff Williams tanked for a while, and then announced all in - and was met with an instantaneous call from Wijermars, who turned over for the stone cold nuts. Williams haplessly flashed for a lower straight, and quietly took his leave.
Young Mr. Wijermars is up to 750,000 now, near the upper end of the chip counts. Not bad for what is going to be his first ever live cash.
Racing out of the tournament with vs. was Moshe Vaizman, while moments later a similarly stacked Sergii Baranov's spiked a Queen to beat .
The Day One chip leader returns to 230,000, and the rail sees first hand that these sorts of all-in race confrontations are deciding the fate of a good number of the 66 remaining players.