Winamax representative Anthony Roux is ruing making a raise from the button, finding his in deep trouble against the big blind's . The board was close but no cigar, and Roux is left with 35,000.
Scotty Nguyen is up to 180,000 after crippling Scott Zakheim.
Nguyen made it 8,000 from the small blind, and Zakheim, who'd limped in UTG, called.
Flop:
Nguyen bet 7,000, and Zakheim called.
Turn:
Now Nguyen checked, and Zakheim bet 10,000, only for Nguyen to make it 25,000. Zakheim went into to the tank for a little while, before going all in. Nguyen called instantly.
With the flop reading , it was of no surprise to see all the chips fly in with Alex Michaels' looking to avoid just the odd out against Bruno Fitoussi's drawtastic .
Although the bricked out, the river wasn't as obliging, a giving Fitoussi the straight and thus the pot.
Dario Minieri
On the very next hand, Michael Chrysanthopoulos found himself all in for just 500 and in need of a miracle. Fortunately, on this occasion, Minieiri opted to raise it up to 8,000 with 3-4, ultimately dominated by Chrysanthopoulos's J-4.
A 5-5-3 flop looked to be the end of Chrysanthopoulos, but running kings handed him a lifeline and kept him in the event.
"That's a sick beat, sick, sick," bemoaned the Italian, hopefully tongue in cheek.
However, the miracle comeback didn't occur, Chrysanthopoulos eliminated shortly after when he ran Q-J into the A-J of Cory Albertson with an emphatic A-J-2-8-4 board.
Tom Bentham is holding and Todd Terry (not, incidentally, the legendary producer of the same name) is holding . The board reads , and one of them is all in. However, there seems to be some confusion over which one of them it is.
Eventually, after some counting and re-counting of stacks, it is determined that Terry does not have Bentham covered, and he is left with just 3,800, including his small blind for the next hand, all of which he sticks in after an UTG raise from Bill Chen and a call from another player. Chen bet the flop and the other player folded.
Chen:
Bentham:
Board:
Bentham makes a straight to triple up.
However, it couldn't last -- he was all in again the next hand, and this time his luck ran out and he busted out in 57th place for $5,586.
Michael Chrysanthopoulos (whose name contains every letter of the alphabet) found himself virtually all in a few moments ago. We didn't catch his hand, but know it was bettered by Kyle Burnside's on an ensuing board.
Justin Filtz raised to 4,500, there was one caller, and then Noah Jefferson reraised all in. Filtz also went all in, the caller folded, and they were on their backs.
Filtz:
Jefferson:
Board:
Jefferson is out, and it looks as though Filtz is now our new chip leader on 285,000.
All in preflop, it was looking bad for Michael Glasser from the outset with pocket queens up against John O'Shea's pocket kings. Duly, with no help from the board, Glasser is down to 25,000 while O'Shea enjoys a full double-up to 125,000.