After [Removed:283] checked the board and Mike Watson bet 50,000. [Removed:288] check-raised to 100,000 and Watson tanked. After a minute or two, Watson moved all in for 211,000. [Removed:288] called.
[Removed:288] showed the for two pair, aces and tens. Unfortunately for him, Watson held a better two pair with the . The river completed the board with the and Watson successfully doubled up.
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier is known for using the Twitter hastag "#justbadluck" or "#jbl" when he tweets. This time around, Mercier was on the end of some good luck when he tripled up by catching a flush on the river. Here's what happened.
From under the gun, Mercier raised to 8,000 and [Removed:283] called from the next seat. Mike Watson called out of the cutoff position, Jonathan Duhamel called from the small blind and Philipp Gruissem called from the big blind. From there, all five players saw the flop come down and action checked around to Watson.
With 43,500 in the middle, Watson bet 20,000 and that folded out Duhamel. Gruissem called and then Mercier check-raised all in for 135,000. [Removed:288] requested a count, received it and then made the call. Watson folded.
Gruissem took some time to himself to think. Eventually, he made the call and gave Mercier the chance to triple his stack if he were to win the hand.
The turn was the and Gruissem checked. [Removed:288] moved all in, putting Gruissem to the test. After he moved all in, [Removed:288] stood up from the table and began to walk over to his rail. He was instructed back to the table because there was still pending action with Gruissem in the hand. On his way back to the table, [Removed:288]'s phone rang and he answered it, quickly saying something in another language to the person on the other end before abruptly hanging up. He then sat back in his seat and waited for Gruissem to act. After a minute or so, Gruissem folded and [Removed:288] was left to do battle with Mercier.
Both players tabled the same hand; Mercier held the and [Removed:288] held the . Mercier did have a flush draw to go along with his hand for some added insurance. Mercier would be the first to tell you, he was "freerolling" [Removed:288].
The river landed with the and Mercier had made his heart flush to win the pot. [Removed:288] didn't see the flush and tried to argue when the dealer began pushing Mercier the pot. The dealer showed [Removed:288] the flush, which upset the 2010 EPT Vilamoura High Roller winner. Mercier collected the chips and moved to nearly 450,000.
Less than an hour after rebuying, a preflop raising war resulted in Jonathan Duhamel being all in preflop with and up against the of Vadzim Kursevich. The latter barely had the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champ covered, and he needed to improve if he hoped to eliminate a tough competitor.
The flop was innocent enough, but the turn was a dagger through Duhamel's heart as it paired Kursevich. The river would provide no relief, and Duhamel exited the tournament for a second time. He has the option to rebuy again, but only time will tell if he elects to do so.
As it currently stands, 54 players have entered the 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller. Of those 54, three of them (Masa Kagawa, Jonathan Duhamel and Steve O'Dwyer) have rebought after busting, putting the total entries up to 57.
It's also known that Daniel Negreanu plans to rebuy and there's the chance some of the others may as well. PokerNews will keep you posted.
We don't have the story behind it, but Luke Schwartz no longer seems to be in the field of the 42 remaining players. We're unsure as to whether or not he has plans to rebuy.
After Philipp Gruissem bet 58,000 on the board, [Removed:283] raised to put him all in. Gruissem only had 80,000 behind and tanked for a bit before finally folding. [Removed:288] was kind enough to show him the for a straight as he moved to over 800,000 in chips.
Masa Kagawa called Philipp Gruissem's shove with the . Gruissem was all in and at risk with the . After the board ran out , Gruissem was eliminated. He did say that he would see the guys tomorrow, so maybe that's a sign that he'll be back in with a rebuy at some point.