Our Brazilian colleagues just told us that Rafael Watanabe ended up all in before the flop for around 10 big blinds and he was up against Diego Casco Del Riego.
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau raised to 60,000 under the gun and Peter Eichhardt called two seats to his left, after which Dutchman Jasper Wetemans moved all in for 294,000 from the small blind. Both Vaskaboinikau and Eichhardt made the call, creating a big pot heading to the flop.
The flop brought out and both players checked. On the turn the hit and Vaskaboinikau check-called a bet of 225,000. The river brought the and Vaskaboinikau check-folded after a long time on a bet of 325,000.
Eichhardt showed for a straight, and that was enough to take down the pot. Wetemans' was tabled, but he was already on his way to the payout desk.
Rui Sousa opened for 65,000 from the cutoff and Anthony Zinno on the button shoved all in for 290,000. Big blind John Juanda moved over the top all in for 564,000 and Sousa folded, claming to have had nines.
Mike McDonald was the shortest stack in the room, and he handed his chips to his neighbor just now. Action folded to McDonald in the small blind and he moved in for his last 150,000. Jude Ainsworth in the big blind made the call.
Mike McDonald:
Jude Ainsworth:
The board totally blanked out and queen-high won it for Ainsworth.
McDonald, after making the final table in the €25,000 Single Day High Roller (5th for €257,000) earlier this week, now 43rd in the Main Event (€22,840).
Under unknown circumstances we've just lost Markus Cerny at the feature table. Cerny was all in holding versus Chris Walker's , and the board showed when we arrived on the scene.
Cerny shook his head and exited the tv set while Walker chipped up nicely during the last level of the night.