From under the gun, JC Alvarado opened with a raise to 6,000. His only customer was Tony Gregg, the man who final tabled the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event twice (sixth in 2012, and second in 2009). He made the call from the cutoff seat, and the flop came down . Alvarado bet 8,800, and Gregg raised to 20,000. Alvarado called.
The turn was the , and both players checked to see the land on the river. After Alvarado checked, Gregg fired 44,000. Alvarado tanked for a bit, then folded, and Gregg won the pot.
We don't have details on Per Ummer's exit but we know that Toby Lewis busted Faraz Jaka.
Lewis explained that he called an early position raise before Jaka squeezed from the big blind. Lewis called and the flop fell all threes. Jaka bet there and on the queen turn before he shoved the river when it came a ten. Lewis called all the way with pocket queens for a full house bettering Jaka's smaller full house with pocket tens. Ouch for Jaka.
Dan O'Brien started the day with a solid stack of chips, but the beginning part of his day saw his chips going everywhere but to him. On this hand, though, O'Brien won a nice pot off Ognjen Sekularac to chip back up to nearly 140,000.
Sekularac raised to 5,000 from the hijack seat before O'Brien three-bet to 16,400 from the cutoff seat. Sekularac called, and the flop came down . Sekularac led for 12,200, and O'Brien made the call.
The turn was the to pair the board, and Sekularac checked. O'Brien bet 17,200, and Sekularac folded.
PokerNews ran into Bryn Kenney in the cash game room and he confirmed that he busted with to an opponent's aces. He flopped a flush draw but failed to hit. He joked that the board ran out with diamonds to try and tease him that they might be hearts.
Benny Spindler informed us that Viktor Blom was ousted when he was set over set'd by Victor Sbrissa, who is up to 210,000.
Paul Volpe, Andreas Eiler and Erik Seidel all busted early as well.
Igor Kurganov is back to his winning ways after he eliminated Dan Smith.
Smith raised the button to 5,200 before Kurganov three-bet to 15,000 from the big blind. Smith tank-shoved for around 95,000 and Kurganov snapped him off.