Sebastian Ruthenberg just won a flip against Philipp Gruissem to send him to the rail. Ruthenberg held the and Gruissem held the . The board ran out and Ruthenberg won with a set of fives.
Freddy Deeb has been on quite the roller-coaster ride today. First he's up, then he's down, then he's back up. Here's one where he went down a bit.
Deeb opened to 4,500 from middle position and found a caller in John Gale from the big blind. The flop came down and Gale check-called a bet of 5,500 from Deeb.
The turn was the and Gale checked again. Deeb didn't slow down and fired 15,000. Gale stood strong and called.
The river was the to pair the board. Gale checked and Deeb checked.
Gale announced a king and then tabled the . All Deeb could do was muck his hand and Gale won the pot.
Steve O'Dwyer was just involved in a big three-way all-in contest with Pete Akery and Neil Pearce. O'Dwyer held the while Pearce had the and Akery the .
The board ran out to eliminate Akery and ship Pearce the 155,500-chip pot.
From under the gun, Nick Binger raised to 3,500. Anton Wigg called from the next seat and action folded to Eduardo Santi in the big blind. He made the call and the flop came down . Santi moved all in for around 30,000 and both of his opponents folded right away.
Strolling by Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier's table, we noticed his stack has grown quite a bit.
"You wanna know how it happened?" asked Mercier before relaying the story to us. "A guy shoved for 20K and I called. Then another guy reshoved for 60K and I called. I had ace-king, the first guy had pocket eights and the other guy had queens. The board ran out ace, six, three, ten, three."