Level: 4
Blinds: 7,000/14,000
Ante: 2,000
Level: 4
Blinds: 7,000/14,000
Ante: 2,000
The players have just been reminded that this will be the last level to enter the GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Main Event and it will also be the last level to rebuy. Players will also be given the upcoming 65-minute dinner break to enter and they will be able to rebuy (or add-on) during the break. The tournament clock tells us that 70 players have been seated in the GDAM so far.
With the board reading , Sorel Mizzi was first to act here on the turn and led for 68,000. Mizzi's one opponent was Mikael Thuritz, who opted to make the call.
The final card to hit the felt was a and this time Mizzi bet 158,000. Thuritz thought for only a few moments before making the call. At showdown, Mizzi tabled , with the two pair strong enough to send Thuritz's cards into the muck.
Mizzi is now cruising on 1.3 million, while despite losing this hand, Thuritz, from Sweden, is still going strong with a stack of 1.7 million.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mikael Thuritz |
1,700,000
1,700,000
|
1,700,000 |
Sorel Mizzi |
1,300,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
Since the last time we brought you the news of who had opted to use their rebuy another six more players have ponied up the HK$1,000,000 and added on, or kept themselves alive with, a further 1 million in chips. That means there has been a total of 11 rebuys so far. Below is who the next round of rebuys came from.
Philipp Gruissem
Gus Hansen
Tobias Renkemeier
Chin Fai Choi
Anthony Gregg
Mike McDonald
With an open to 30,000 and two flat-calls behind him, Shaun Deeb opted to move all in for 413,000 from the button. Hai San Lin was next to act from the small blind and made the call, while the three other players in the hand got out of the way. With Deeb at risk, he and Lin turned their hands over.
Lin:
Deeb:
While the flop wasn't great for Deeb, it did give him some outs to a chopped pot. However unfortunately for Deeb the turn and the river weren't what he was looking for and he was down to zero chips. That is until Deeb pulled out a stack of ten HK$100,000 plaques from his pocket and made the re-buy. Back to a millie for Deeb.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Shaun Deeb |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
|
We have managed to take a quick peek at the feature table and below is how the chips are looking. As you can see, Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier is doing great with a stack well over 2 million in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bertrand Grospellier |
2,450,000
1,450,000
|
1,450,000 |
Devan Tang | 2,000,000 | |
Dang Di
|
1,700,000 | |
Tang Kejing
|
1,380,000 | |
Philipp Gruissem |
1,120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
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Yong Seng Cheng
|
995,000 | |
Fabian Quozz
|
690,000 |
Gus Hansen has just used his second and final rebuy. We didn't catch all the action, but when we arrived at the table Hansen had 333,000 out on front of him from the hijack position, while Sven Heinecker had 145,000 out in front of him on the button. At this point Heinecker slid out a giant stack of 100,000-denomination chips, which was enough to put Hansen all in. Hansen had around 500,000 behind and was squirming in his seat as he contemplated his decision.
After tanking for a few minutes, Hansen said: "It's really that bad."
"I can still rebuy, right?" Hansen added to nobody in particular.
Eventually Hansen flicked out the call and Heinecker tabled his . Hansen gave a slight sigh as he turned over . The board gave Hansen a bit of a sweat to a straight on the flop, but with no help on the turn or river, Hansen handed over HK$1,000,000 and made a rebuy.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gus Hansen |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
|
With the dinner break just a few minutes away, the players are starting to fire away with plenty of rebuys. One player who has certainly taken advantage of this is 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel as he recently coughed up HK$2,000,000 and received a double-rebuy. Duhamel had recently lost the majority of his chips to Erik Seidel and so only has a small amount more than 2 million in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Duhamel |
2,100,000
650,000
|
650,000 |
The fourth level of the day is over and the players have been sent on a 65-minute dinner break. As we type this we can see plenty of players scrambling to make a rebuy (add-on). We will have all the updated rebuy, entrants and prize pool information posted once all the math has been done and the players are back from their break.
See you back here soon poker fans.
Play was set to recommence a couple of minutes ago, but with a surge of late rebuys the play has been halted for a further five minutes. What we can tell you is that the rebuy count is nearing 50, which is huge in itself, but especially large considering there were only around 20 heading into the dinner break.
We will be back soon to let you know how many rebuys exactly and to let you know when the cards are back in the air.