Allen Cunningham
This can't be welcome news for the rest of the field--Allen Cunningham is now up to 930,000 chips. He just picked up a big pot when Frank Russo raised to 20,000 and Cunningham reraised to 80,000. Russo called, and when the flop came Russo shipped in his stack holding . Mistake--Cunningham had flopped a set of jacks and ended up making quads on the river. Russo was eliminated and Cunningham now commands a huge stack.
Michael Graffeo looked to have one foot out of the door when he committed the last of his chips with and found himself up against the of Alexander Kostritsyn.
However, the flop came to spike a set for Graffeo. The turn was the and the river the to keep Graffeo in the game.
As if it wasn't bad enough that chip leader Jeremy Joseph was seated at Table #6 in the green section, two empty seats there were just filled by Alexander Kostritsyn (and his 900,000 stack) and Johnny (expletive deleted) Chan. The ESPN camera crews have been camped out at that table ever since Chan unracked his chips in seat 3.
Hannu Korva and Dylan Linde had it all in preflop. Korva had pocket sixes, and Linde . The flop of put Korva way ahead. But the on the turn and on the river put a straight on the board, and they chopped. Korva currently has almost 300,000, and Linde is hanging on with 55,000.
Meanwhile, Gary Berbiglia got it all in versus Ivan Demidov. Berbiglia had pocket deuces and Demidov . The board came , and they chopped as well. Berbiglia hangs on with just 55,000, while Demidov is in good shape with 830,000.
Even though it often seems like the dominated hand manages to suck out against the dominating hand, those dominating hands do hold up a fair amount of time. Mike Bertolini knows. Holding , he called an all-in from Peter Wesselius, who tabled . The flop came , improving neither player. The turn meant Bertolini had to dodge only a jack on the river, which he did when the river fell .
The UTG player opened for 13,500, Andy Goetsch moved all in for 86,000, Mark Vos called from the small blind and the UTG player open-folded .
Goetsch
Vos
The board ran out . The UTG player coulda woulda shoulda made two pair on the turn, but Vos' kings held up to award him the pot and increase his stack to 620,000. Goetsch was eliminated.