On the table of Kully Sidhu, a hand just took place that may cause some nightmares still. After some preflop action, Martin Schoettke and table neighbor Tristan Maclaren invested 8,000 on the flop. On the turn, Schoettke wanted to go all in but didn't say anything and pushed forward his stack in two movements.
The dealer stopped right there and said that only the first move counted as bet, which amounted to 15,000. Maclaren wanted to push all in, but didn't say anything either and splashed in 15,000 - exactly how much the call would be. The then came on the river and suddenly Schoettke checked, causing different reactions at the table. Maclaren pushed all in and Schoettke folded ... with 4,000 behind.
Maclaren showed to claim the pot and Schoettke busted soon after.
Alfie Adam opened the action and two short stacks moved all in behind him. Waheed Ashraf called the largest all in and Adam responded by moving all in over the top of him.
“Why did you do that?” Wadey wanted to know of Adam.
Another player objected to the talking during a multi-way pot but Ashraf pointed out that there was no more action. The floor was called and it was established that he could not talk in the pot even though three players were all in.
Ashraf threw his hand in and was aghast when he saw Adam turn over . He was up against the and of the at risk players.
The board ran out and Adam collected the pot busting two players.
“You want to be careful,” Wadey continued at Adam, “Someone else could have called you with my hand.”
There was an early position raise to 2,600 and a call from Pavlos Benakis in the cut-off and the player on the button before PokerStars Team Pro Jake Cody in the small blind raised to 10,600.
The initial raiser folded, Benakis called and the button folded.
The flop was and Cody led out for 8,200.
Benakis looked disappointed, folded, and said, “I should have raised.”
The eight tables in the upper cash game area all broke and some of the big names there got moved, including Praz Bansi and William Kassouf. They found themselves on nearby tables next to the bar and the big stack of Kassouf's table is Alexandria O'Brien.
Shantanu Banerji appears to be the biggest stack in that area while High Roller champion Joe Johnson is still in Jimmy's room with an average stack.
With the board showing , Christopher Yong in the big blind faced the shoves of Jerome O'Shea and the cutoff. Yong quickly called to put two players at risk, and had both of them drawing dead.
Jerome O'Shea:
Cutoff:
Christopher Yong:
The river was already meaningless and Yong bumped his stack up nicely thanks to the double elimination.
Edmund Anderson had been short stacked for quite some time and eventually just got his stack in against table neighbor Ludovic Geilich with versus . Geilich won the flip on a board of and that was it for Anderson.
Mason Hyatt, who lost a massive pot early in the day, never recovered from that and was just now spotted all in for his tournament life with only 25,400. Hyatt flipped with out of the small blind against the of Adam Slaiper in the cutoff and spiked a queen to double.