The Goose is Gone
Level 6
: 250/500, 75 ante
We missed the elimination of Steffen "Goose" Sontheimer, winner of the inaugural Poker Masters in Las Vegas, but we learned some details after the fact courtesy of Ben Tollerene.
According to him, a player raised in early position and another player called. Spain's Miguel Riera Suarez then three-bet from the button and Sontheimer four-bet from the big blind. The original raiser and flatter both folded, and Suarez five-bet all in. Goose called off for roughly 35,000.
Sontheimer: 
Suarez: 
Sontheimer failed to find a lady and hit the rail. Interestingly, the two had played a similar hand a couple of orbits earlier, though in that hand it was reversed. Suarez had the queens and managed to fold them to Sontheimer's aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
90,000 | 90,000 |
|
Busted |
and there is already 16,000 in the pot. Seymour moves all in for a right around 8,5000 and gets a fold from one of his opponents. The other player in the hand, Alessandro De Fenza, drops into the tank. De Fenza thinks for nearly 3 minutes as camera crews begin to swarm around the table to see what's going on. 
for a full house and that allows him to double up through De Fenza who mucks his hand and send over the chips. 
flop. Four of them checked to Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen on the button, and he bet 2,400.
turn.
river and Simard tabled the 
. It was good as Hunichen sent his hand to the muck.
, Maurice Hawkins bet 700 from the small blind and Ankush Mandavia called from the big. 
for a missed straight draw. Shchiptsov looked at the hand for a few seconds before realizing he'd won, turning over his 
. His pair of nines, with the pair of jacks on the board, allowed him to take down the pot while Wang was caught bluffing and forced to send over a little less than half his stack.
turn, which they both checked.
