After a flop of Edward Ochana check-called a pot sized bet from Noah Schwartz.
The turn brought the and again Ochana checked. Schwartz bet enough to put Ochana all in and he made the call.
Ochana: (top two pair)
Schwartz: (set of aces)
The river was a blank in the eliminating Ochana from the tournament. With the extra chips, Schwartz becomes the first million dollar man of this tournament with 1,080,000.
Markus Golser has collected a nice pot after firing a bet of 100,000 on the river on a board of . His opponent, Stefan Mattsson made the call, but couldn't better the of Golser for aces full of eights.
"What Should I Do?"
Five players limped in and saw a flop of . The blinds checked and Josh Arieh bet 30,000 from middle position. Vitaly Lunkin folded from the cutoff and Noah Schwartz raised to 125,000 from the button. The blinds got out of the way and Arieh called.
The turn brought the . With almost 300,000 already in, Josh Arieh checked and Schwartz makes a pot sized bet.
Arieh stood from the table. Agonizing over the decision he said "Oh my gosh. I should have just mucked this hand in the beginning."
He continued to tank for what seemed to be over five minutes. Finally, he mucks his hand.
There hasn't been much action to report lately as the players look to sneak into the money. The most significant action recently came when Matt Graham decided to fire 52,000 at a flop of .
He found two callers in Henri Kettunen and Stefan Mattsson as we moved a little closer to the table in anticipation of a big pot.
The turn brought the and Graham fired again, this time for 127,000. However both opponents gave up the fight and released.
"Whew!" laughed Graham in jest, before commenting, "Nah I had the best hand." We'll never know, but he's up to 460,000 chips.
Van Marcus opened with a pot-sized raise from the cutoff and Barry Greenstein flat-called on the button. The action folded to Chau Giang in the big blind who moved all in for around 100,000. Marcus then re-raised all in himself as Greenstein looked down at his cards and tossed into the muck.
Giang showed as Marcus was irate, not only that Giang tabled aces but Greenstein had folded kings, as Marcus revealed .
"How do you not three-bet there?" Marcus quizzed of Greenstein who replied that he didn't raise because he didn't have any suited cards.