A relatively small-stacked Martin Green rested his tournament life on the fate of his against the pocket kings of Tommy Lindfors in a preflop all-in confrontation.
The poker gods sided with Green this time around, delivering an ace on the flop to help him stay alive. The official board was: .
Paul Gourlay, the Rocketman from the north of England, just ran his into Ludovic Lacay's on a flop. No counterfeiting cards fell and one more player bites the dust.
On a flop of , Noah Boeken and Michael Durrer exchanged raises and reraises until Durrer was all in.
Noah turned over the for top pair, while Durrer produced the for middle pair and a gutshot straight draw.
The turn and river came , making two pair for Durrer on the river and giving him new life in the tournament. Boeken was left with approximately 90,000 in chips after the hand.
Kenny Hicks Jr. is still alive and well in the tournament; in fact, he recently eliminated Vinh Nguyen from the field when his kings held up over Nguyen's tens in a preflop all-in confrontation.
PokerStars has enlisted a new (and quite useful) method of gathering chip counts for this tournament, which has worked quite well thus far, with few exceptions. Kenny Hicks' elimination in our chip counts was one of those exceptions.
The players in today's tournament have each been given a card with a number on it that represents their original table and seat number. Members of the media can then reference a spread sheet we've been provided that matches the player with the code on the card.
The players have been instructed to keep the cards visible at all times, though as we all know, for all its benefits, such a system also has its fair share of flaws -- i.e. players losing their cards, accidentally swapping cards with another player, etc. Though we're not sure quite how it happened, Kenny Hicks' information was somehow mixed with a player who HAS been eliminated, thereby causing the mishap.
We are pleased to report that Kenny is still alive and will in the tournament and is currently sitting with 130,000 in chips.
Andrew Grimason went out in a cruel fashion. All in preflop with aces vs kings, he hit his ace on the flop only to see four clubs appear to match the in his opponent's hand!