Scott Hall opened for 16,000 in mid position and got looked up by both Zachary Weiler on the cutoff and Terry Stewart in the small blind. They saw a flop.
Flop:
Stewart checked to Hall, who bet 19,500. Over to Weiler, who raised all in for 135,000 -- then back to Stewart, who re-shoved -- and back to Hall, who called all in for 158,500. Hurrah! Bloggers and railers love this sort of thing.
Hall: for a set
Weiler: for top pair and not much more
Stewart: for top pair and a flush draw
Turn:
River:
Thus Weiler is bust, Stewart drops down to 116,000, and Hall is our new chip daddy on 465,000.
Oh oops. Jason Mercier, running so incredibly well up until now, is bust.
Almost all the chips went in in a blind-on-blind confrontation with Jose Rosenkrantz, Rosenkrantz in the small blind and Mercier in the big.
Rosenkrantz:
Mercier:
Board:
This put Rosenkrantz up to 340,000 and left Mercier with... 2,000. Yup, that's one third of a big blind. He more than tripled up next hand with against , but his came a cropper the hand after that to a gent holding pocket sixes. Thus ends the excellent run of Jason Mercier.