Robert Campbell got this hand started with a raise on third street. He was called by Steve Schulman who would be on fourth, fifth and sixth streets, with Campbell calling all the way down. Both players checked the river and Schulman's aces were good.
As we round into Level 12, there are still five members of Team PokerStars in the field of 131 players -- and each has 20 or more big bets in his stack. Lex Veldhuis, of Team Pro Netherlands, is still leading the charge for the team. He's sitting behind 51,000 but has a tough table draw with Jon Turner recently joining the table.
Just behind Veldhuis in the counts are Johannes Steindl of Team Pro Austria (50,000), George Lind of Team Online (49,000), Pat Pezzin of Team Pro Canada (48,000) and Jason Mercier of Team USA (41,000). With the current average stack about 26,000, each of the team members is in a strong place to power down through the table breaks and into the money.
When we counted Jeff Shulman a half hour ago, he had 63,000 chips. Now he's the first player to crack the six-figure mark. He played a three-way hand of razz that was heads-up by sixth street. Showing a board of (X) (X) / 4-3-6-A, Shulman made the obligatory bet. His opponent, Jim Geary, showed (X) (X) / 4-8-5-10 and tanked for about thirty seconds before reluctantly folding his hand.
Dragging that pot increased Shulman's count to 105,000. He appears to be the current chip leader.
Russ Salzer recently came out on top of a monster hand that saw him take a pile of chips from George Lind while sending Paul Dewald to the rail.
George Lind: (X)-5-3 / 8-A-2-A
Russ Salzer: 4-7-6 / 3-A-2-3
Paul Dewald: (XXX) / 8-6-10-6
Salzer got things started with a raise on third street and was called by both Dewald and Lind. On fourth street Lind led out with a bet and was raised by Salzer. Dewald and Lind both made the call.
Lind bet again on fifth street, Salzer called, as did Dewald, putting himself all in. Lind bet on sixth and seventh streets with Salzer calling both times.
Despite leading the betting all the way through, Lind didn't come out with the best hand and had to concede the pot to Salzer.
Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy was the first player into the pot. He completed third street and was called by Ronald Terrill. Terrill had the low board on fourth street and bet it, but couldn't shake Josephy. Josephy called a caught a baby on fifth street. He raised after Terrill bet, which was enough to put Terrill all in. Terrill called.
Josephy's board filled out first, making a 7-5. That was a hand that Terrill couldn't beat with any river card. He was drawing dead and didn't bother to squeeze it out.
Jason Mercier: 4-6-7 /2- A-K-K
David Mitchell: 2-5-4 / A-A-9-A
Ming Lee: (XXX) / 5-7-J-J
David MItchell completed on third street with both Ming and Mercier calling. On fourth street Mercier opened with a bet and both opponents agreed to come along.
Fifth street brought a load of action when Ming bet, Mitchell raised and Mercier three-bet. Once again, both Ming and Mitchell called.
Betting was a bit more subdued on sixth street. Ming led out with both his opponents calling.
Ming bet the river, Mitchell called, but Mercier raised. Mitchell called, as did Ming, putting himself all in.
Mercier tabled the best hand and won what has to be one of the biggest pots of the night.
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