Brazil's Gil Morgensztern opened to 600, and Chino Rheem reraised to 1,750. Morgensztern called to take the flop of . Morgensztern checked, Rheem bet 2,000, and Morgensztern check-raised to 4,500. Rheem called.
The turn was the , and Morgensztern bet 7,500. Rheem called.
The river was the , and Morgensztern checked. Rheem bet 20,000, and Morgensztern tank-called. Rheem showed the , but Morgensztern showed the for the winning hand.
Last year the $25,000 High Roller event at the PCA drew a crowd of 161 unique players and a total of 43 re-entries. This year, with still a full day of late registration remaining there are already 162 players!
The total amount of entries last year added up to 204 and Vanessa Selbst walked away with the $1,424,420 first place prize. With the current number already exceeding last year's unique players there's a good chance the first prize will eclipse the $1.5 million mark.
Ole Schemion fied a bet of 4,200 on the flop. Sylvain Loosli called behind, and then the third player in the hand called.
The turn was the , and all three players checked to see the land on the river. After Schemion checked, Loosli bet 7,500. The next player folded, as did Schemion, and Loosli scooped the pot.
Germany's Martin Finger just scooped a big pot off opponent Roberto Rodrigues from Brazil. In a three-bet pot, Finger turned a full house holding pocket queens and was able to score a lot of value. So much so that he's now up to 124,000 in chips.
The board read when we arrived on the scene. Ole Schemion was facing a shove by Simon Higgins who had put him all in for his tournament life.
Schemion went into the tank for quite a while but eventually he called for a total of 27,150. Higgins showed and that was nog enough versus Schemion's . The German pro doubled up and Higgins drops down to below half the average stack.