Stu Rutter has douled up Christian Caracuta after the latter won a flip with against on a board.
Meanwhile Keith "The Camel" Hawkins is smarting after losing a huge 140,000 pot when he called Bharminde Maker's push with and lost to after the board came .
As the action folded round to the button, Sean van Slujis (yes, genuine name) made a standard raise, only for Steve King to shove all in from the small blind. He may only have had , but it seemed like a good spot, that was until Andy Black woke up with in the big blind.
"The seven-three of hearts!" exclaimed Black after van Slujis had folded. "Holy s**t, we're not going to be ****ing happy if we lose this one."
"You've got one of my outs," smirked King pointing to the king of hearts.
As Black magnetised the crowd towards him in his usual, entertaining manner, the TV crew bumbled their way over, eager to catch the Mad Monk in action.
After the inveitable pause, the T.D. announced the hands, much to the chuckle of the room, and the flop was dealt: . Black grimaced as if chewing on a lemon.
When a hit the turn, Black grimaced yet again, this time as if a wasp had landed on that lemon.
Then the river: the . The crowd gasped as if Elvis had entered the room, and Black could only look on in shock. "Oh my God," he sighed.
Consequently, we lose the former WSOP finalist, the charismatic Andy Black succumbing to the might of seven-three suited. King, meanwhile, is now shining after using up a year's worth of good fortune in one hand.
We couldn't help but notice that Liam Flood's stack seems to have disappeared quicker than he earned it. A brief chat with Ross Boatman and it emerged that Flood had called a raise, and shove, with pocket queens, only to be out-gunned by the of Francisco Torres Hermoso, despite the initial raiser folding .
Swings and roundabouts for Francisco Torres Hermoso, the only mustachioed, I believe, player remaining in the field. After more than doubling through off Liam Flood earlier, he missed out on a chance to eliminate Ross Boatman after raising it up preflop. Boatman pushed, and despite umming and ahhing, the Spaniard made the fold, showing pocket sevens in the process. "Good fold," gleamed Boatman as he revealed sixes. "Aaaaah," grunted Hermoso frustratedly.
O'Dea the younger's tournament has just come to an abrupt end. He made his swan song with , but Cristian Caracuta sang slightly louder, his hitting a set on a before surviving a back door spanking on the turn and river.
Ronan Gallagher has been eliminated from this year's event. There was a bit of confusion at first as to whether a player had "called", "raised", etc, but in the end all the chips went in with Gallagher's coin-flipping against Christian Caracuta's .
The flop produced a gutshot draw, but it was the river that finished him off, a followed by a painful to send him home.