Isaac Haxton raised it to 120,000 from the cutoff and Anton Astapau on the button announced all in for 470,000 total. Both blinds folded and Haxton made the call.
Anton Astapau:
Isaac Haxton:
The board ran out and Astapau had to settle for 11th place.
There have been all ins almost every single hand, but no calls so far. Most all ins have been preflop pushes from players, but so far that resulted in picking up the blinds and antes. Still 11 players in the tournament.
Action folded around to Steve O'Dwyer on the button and he moved all in for his last 625,000. Jani Sointula jammed in over the top for 640,000 from the small blind and Mike McDonald folded his big blind.
O'Dwyer:
Sointula:
The board came down , failing to improve O'Dwyer's hand. Sointula scored the elimination and brought his stack up to about 1.3 million.
Farid Jattin was down to about 550,000 and shoved those in from early position. Action folded to Martin Finger in the big blind and he had a no-headache decision, he called instantly.
Martin Finger:
Farid Jattin:
The board ran out and Jattin hit the rail in 13th place.
Action folded around to Viacheslav Buldygin in the small blind and he moved all in for his last 270,000. Mark Teltscher called from the big blind and the hands were turned up.
Buldygin:
Teltscher:
The board ran out , giving Teltscher a winning nut straight for the win.
Jeff Rossiter was all in and at risk for his last 230,000 against Tobias Reinkemeier. The cards were turned over to reveal that Rossiter was in need of help.
Rossiter:
Reinkemeier:
The board ran out , giving Rossiter a winning two pair and allowing him to find renewed tournament life.
Since there were so many all ins and calls going on, we missed the exact action on Mike McDonald's table. We just saw Ankush Mandavia get up with hanging shoulders, and McDonald stacking newfound chips.
McDonald told us Mandavia had shoved with from the hijack and McDonald had looked him up from the cutoff with . The board () brought no help to Mandavia's and he was soon on his way to the pay out desk.
Brian Roberts had just 140,000 left and Adrian Mateos had exactly the same. The two of them got their stacks in the middle before the flop and Kevin Stani put them both at risk.
Adrian Mateos:
Brian Roberts:
Kevin Stani:
The board ran out and Stani's pair of sevens held up, knocking out both Mateos and Roberts. The two of them finished in the same hand at the same table, but since there was no discrepancy in pay out, there was no need to worry about that.
and Astapau had to settle for 11th place.
, failing to improve O'Dwyer's hand. Sointula scored the elimination and brought his stack up to about 1.3 million.
and Reinkemeier checked. Finger made a bet and Reinkemeier invested his last 5,000 chip to go to showdown.
on the river was there just to make things official. Down to 13 players.
