Life at the Top Aint Easy
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
There has been a bit of shuffling around at the top and Viktor Blom is no longer chip leader.
He was down to around 400,000 when he lost a 100 big blind flip to Nick Abou Risk. Blom's pocket queens couldn't hold against Risk's ace-king. He four-flushed with the 
.
That happened on the feature table but a little while before on an adjacent table another huge pot played out. Toby Lewis told us how Mantas Visockis eliminated an opponent in a 400,000-plus pot with aces to queens. Six bets got in pre flop and Tikerpe's aces held. That put the Estonian up to 510,000.
Another player on 510,000 is Matthias Tikerpe. He's at a very deep table that contains Mike McDonald.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
510,000 | 94,000 |
|
510,000 | 276,000 |
|
280,000 | -280,000 |
|
250,000 | 100,000 |