On the turn of a board, Samy Zakhary check-raised Andrei Simon's 4,000 bet to 12,000. Simon called to see the river where Zakhary now bet 17,000 - telling Simon, "I'll show if you fold."
Simon decided he was going to see Zakhary's cards but on his own terms. He made the call, Zakhary showed and Simon quickly folded.
Sitting on a stack of 127,000, Alexy Rybin can seemingly do no wrong. He had just raised Jamila Von Perger of a hand pre-flop and tossed his cards high in the air flashing the table the glimpse of an ace. The next hand he raised to 1,200 and faced a raise from Bernard Latouf on his left to 3,300. It folded back round to Rybin who noticed his opponent only had 10,000 behind. He made the call.
The flop was . Rybin checked and as expected Latouf put in his last 10,000. Rybin called and showed which was in pretty good shape against the of Latouf. When it came however it felt like a punch to the guts for Latouf, as the last two cards completed the flush and knocked him out. The rich get richer.
Artem Vezhnekov is up to 110,000 after he called an all in on the turn of a board, his opponent had been caught try pull a fast one with . Vezhnekov showed and easily won on the river.
AJ Brock has doubled up and in effect, traded places with Ognjen Sekularac. Not so much like Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd in Trading Places but more like Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage in Vice Versa. Sekularac will now have to play the implacably fearless short-stack (Savage) will Brock can now be worldly wise medium stack (Reinhold).
Brock:
Sekularac:
The board came for Brock, spiking his ace for the double.
Michael Mizrachi is playing just about every hand. First he managed to double to about 38,000 when he shoved on the river of a board, got called and showed for the rivered straight.
But what goes up, must come down.
A couple of hands later saw Mizrachi raise Pierre Sayegh's 3,000 turn to 6,500 on a board. Sayegh called that then instantly called another 10,000 on the river. Mizrachi tapped the table and was about to show but mucked when he saw Sayegh's .
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi opened for 1,100 was raised by Necip Ferengizbilge to 2,200 only to face a Four-bet by Kayan Turgal to 4,375. Mizrachi decided to call, prompting Ferengizbilge to shove giving Turgal a big problem. He had Mizrachi covered but with one player all in and “The Grinder” still to act behind, were his cards strong enough in this spot?
Mizrachi grinned at him and said, “I run good.” Turgal folded and with him out of the way Mizrachi could turn his attention to Ferengizbilge. “Ace-king eh?” he asked and called, turning over his . He was correct as his opponent had . But being right doesn’t win you the pot as the cards ran out . The full house knocked Mizrachi back to a stack of 14,000.
Ben Carpenter has just been eliminated by Michael Mizrachi. A simple case of a late position with running into Mizrachi's in the big blind and the board coming .
Worse news for the Carpenter family, Ben's brother Tom was knocked out almost exactly the same time.