We just told you about a hand between Joseph Cheong and Barney Boatman that saw Boatman shove the river against Cheong. On this one, we picked up with the action on the board when Boatman chekced to Cheong. He bet 44,000 and Boatman check-raised all in for approximately 160,000. Cheong mucked and Boatman's second river shove on Cheong worked.
From early position, Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden raised to 12,000. In the cutoff seat, Gianluca Cedolia reraised to 36,000. Play folded back to Lodden and he thought for a little bit. After studying, Lodden reraised all in. Cedolia called.
Cedolia:
Lodden:
The flop, turn and river ran out and Lodden dropped all the way back to under 250,000.
William Thorson raised to 12,000 from middle position and Barny Boatman flatted on the button. In the small blind, start-of-the-day chip leader Joseph Cheong reraised to 33,000. The big blind and Thorson folded, but Boatman called to take a flop.
The flop came down and Cheong bet 25,000. Boatman called and the turn was the . Both Cheong and Boatman checked to see the land on the river. Cheong checked and Boatman moved all in for around 110,000. Cheong folded his hand and Boatman won the pot.
Kevin MacPhee checked the flop and Yves Boschetti checked behind. The turn brought the and MacPhee fired 44,000. Boschetti took a minute and then folded his hand, allowing the former EPT champion to take this one down.
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On the last hand before the break, we lost Kyle Johnson in a huge pot.
We only walked up to the river of the board in time to see Elio Fox shoving all in with his covering stack. The pot was scrambled, but it looked like there had to be close to 300,000 in the middle. We eyeballed Johnson at 299,000 left in his stack, and he would take a long while agonizing over the decision facing him. He had that "I-don't-want-to-call-but-I-might-have-to" look on his face, and he rubbed his temples as he pondered Fox's shove.
Most of the players had already left the table for their break, and only Dennis Bejedal was still in his seat. From in between the two players, he eventually called the clock on Johnson, and the floorman came and presided over the final minute of Johnson's tournament life. It was well within the rules for Bejedal and nobody seemed to flinch, but it was fairly poor timing to be adding even more pressure to Johnson's decision. About four minutes of the break had elapsed.
About halfway through his clock time, Johnson finally made a reluctant call for all his chips, and the news was not good. Fox showed up , and Johnson flung his cards into the muck and headed for the payout desk, unable to beat the overpair.
With that big pot, Fox has skyrocketed up over 800,000, and that's dangerous news for the rest of this table. They'll have to deal with a man who's on a serious heater with one major title already this month, and he's now in contention for the chip lead here with under 100 players left, too!