The tension in the air is rising with each elimination. Now that we are down to the final five players, each one remaining is guaranteed to take home more than $150,000. Not bad for a few days of work!
The chip lead has changed hands a number of times throughout the course of this final table. Peter Ippolito is currently in the lead while Simon Charette has the shortest stack at the table.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko made it 100,000 from the button and Simon Charette raised to 270,000 from the small blind. Timoshenko called and the flop came . Charette bet out 250,000 and Timoshenko called. The turn came , Charette checked and after a while Timoshenko bet 325,000. Charette gave up the hand and Timoshenko took the hand.
Simon Charette moved all in from the button for just over one million. Peter Ippolito called from the big blind holding . Charette tabled and was at risk.
Action folded to Yevgeniy Timoshenko in the cutoff who raised to 120,000. Simon Charette then moved all in on the button and Sebastian Winkler did likewise from the small blind. Timoshenko got out of the way and the other two were all in with very similarly sized stacks.
Charette:
Winkler:
The flop brought good news for Charette when it came . Winkler was going to need help to catch back up. The turn and river were the and which were of no help and Charette won the hand.
The stacks were so close in size that both had to be counted down to figure out which was the larger of the two. After all the chips were counted Charette had Winkler covered by a mere 30,000 chips and Winkler was eliminated in fifth place.
We're currently watching a very big hand between Simon Charette and Yevgeniy Timoshenko. Timoshenko is facing a very large river bet from Charette and has already been in the tank for seven minutes. We'll have all the details and the results of the hand for you as soon as it is over!
Simon Charette opened for 130,000, Peter Ippolito called from the button, Athanasios Polychronopoulos called from the small blind and Yevgeniy Timoshenko called from the big blind. All four players watched the flop roll out and all four players checked.
The turn brought the , Polychronopoulos checked and Timoshenko took some time to measure out a 260,000 bet. Charette called quickly behind, Ippolito folded and Polychronopoulos took almost a minute to fold.
The river came and action was on Timoshenko. He took several moments to cut out 420,000 and Charette sat back in his chair for some thought. After a while he leaned forward and raised to 1.1 million.
Timoshenko went deep into the tank. And by deep we mean at least eight full minutes. At one point it looked as if Timoshenko was going to raise by the way he was counting and adjusting his stack. Eventually he rechecked his hole cards, sat for another minute and then folded his hand.
What started out as family pot turned into a ten minute showdown between Timoshenko and Charette. In total the hand took between 12 and 15 minutes.