Matt Graham opened the action with a raise from late position to 55,000. Ferit Gabriellson made the call on the button as did Van Marcus in the big blind.
The flop fell and action checked around. The turn was the and Graham slid 96,000 into the middle. Gabriellson made the call as Marcus stepped aside.
The river brought the and Graham moved 224,000 into the pot. Gabriellson announced a call and Graham revealed for the nuts. Gabriellson slammed the table in disgust and flashed -X.
With that pot Graham may have taken the chip lead. We'll have the updated chip counts shortly.
After calling a raise from Richard Austin, both he and Josh Arieh got it all on a flop. Arieh had for top two while Austin had for top two also. The turn was the putting Arieh ahead and the river was the to give Austin an improbable full house.
"Are you kidding me?" said Arieh as Austin doubled up...
Having been been card dead for the last couple of hours, to the point where he was showing us some of the junk he was getting. David Williams finally got a hand, only to run into a monster on the flop.
Howard Lederer had limped for 20,000 and Matt Graham made it 90,000. Williams repotted to 220,000 with about 200,000 or so more behind. Lederer folded and Graham made the call.
The flop was and Williams automatically moved the other half of his stack in with only to be instantly called by Graham's . Williams needed the ace to come but instead saw a turn and a river to knock us down to 15 players.
Van Marcus is now on the short stack. In a recent pot he called a bet of 80,000 from Matt Graham on a flop, before giving up when Graham fired again on the turn. He's now down to 115,000 chips.
On a flop of Richard Austin check-raised the bet of Stefan Mattsson, before Mattsson put his opponent all-in for a few thousand more. Austin called and the cards were tabled.
Austin:
Mattsson:
Austin was in front and the turn and river bricked out to give him the double-up. He's up over 600,000 with Mattson back to the pack.