John Strzemp is seemingly unstoppable at the moment. Whilst we were reporting his double through, he added another couple of hundred thousand to his stack with a turned straight against Jason Young.
Then, a few hands later, Mike Schwartz limped on the button, Young made up the blind and Strzemp checked providing us with a rare three-way pot.
Both checked the flop only for Schwartz to bet 120,000 on the turn once his two foes had checked. Young folded, but Strzemp called.
Strzemp checked the on the river, Schwartz bet 150,000 and Strzemp called.
"Good call!" exclaim certain segments of the crowd as Strzemp revealed a triumphant . Schwartz tapped the table and mucked.
Blind on blind, Schwartz makes it 230,000 and Young calls.
They both check the flop, and Schwartz checks the turn to Young, who bets 350,000. Schwartz calls, although he looks like he doesn't really want to.
Again Schwartz checks the river, and Young bets 500,000. Schwartz considered it for some time, before saying to Young, "I don't know why, but I put you on a K-Q." He folds anyway. He wasn't far off, though -- Young shows J-Q, and takes the pot.
Strzemp and Schwartz in the blinds limp/check their way to a flop, on which Strzemp bets 400,000. Schwartz calls.
The turn is the and they both check, and again they both check the river, Schwartz hesitating over it for some time. Strzemp turns over and Schwartz mucks, prompting cheering from the crowd at the rail which is largely made up of Strzemp's friends currently.
Nobody in particular has stood out as the most aggressive preflop raiser, but in recent hands, John Strzemp has been taking it to his two opponents.
Meanwhile, he also won a small pot by being the caller, Jason Young raising it to 265,000 from the small blind and Strzemp matching the bet in the big.
The board was checked all the way down where Strzemp took the pot with versus Young's .
Schwartz button-raises to 300,000, and Young calls in the small blind.
They see a flop, and Young checks, yawning. Schwartz bets 300,000. Young pushes all his chips into the middle, still yawning - a total of 1.76 million. Schwartz mulls it over, but folds.
Previous short stack John Strzemp III is now your current chip leader with 4,200,000.
One hand that aided his climb was against Jason Young. On a flop of , Young check-called a bet of 150,000. Check, check on the turn only for Young to check-call again, this time a bet of 250,000 on the river.